The Port of Baltimore

The National Road begins and ends here

Moving Goods

Since 1729, Baltimore has owed its existence to its deepwater port. The city looks east to the Chesapeake Bay and ports around the world. It also looks west with access to ...

National Historic Landmark - Baltimore Basilica

Has been designated a

National Historic Landmark.

This site possesses national significance

in commemorating the history of the

United States of America.

The Baltimore & Frederick-Town Turnpike

A Transportation Revolution started here

Maryland toll roads helped revolutionize American travel. The Baltimore and Frederick-Town Turnpike began with a tollgate, placed near this corner in 1807. For

a few cents, you could head west on a “smooth” road that ...

Rowhouses: a Baltimore Tradition

In Baltimore's early years, the Gwynns Falls lay beyond the city's settled area. During the 19th century, rapid population growth pushed the boundaries westward by annexing new areas in the valley and then beyond. Through the years of expansion, the ...

Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad Depot

Mission Revival Style depot, built 1906, restored 1990; part of Washington Commercial Historic District. Link to city's trading and industrial history, with substantial railroad machine shops and car works. Indiana stop of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's funeral train, April ...

Eureka Schoolhouse & Baltimore Covered Bridge

The Eureka Schoolhouse, constructed between 1785 and 1790, is Vermont’s oldest one-room school and one of the few surviving 18th century public buildings in the state. It was originally located in the “Eureka Four Corners,” northeast of Springfield village, and ...

Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Marble Track Bed

Marble blocks from Cockeysville area quarries were used in 1836 to bed the track fro this section of the Baltimore and Susquehanna. One of the nation's earliest commercial railroads. Revealed during construction of the MTA Light Rail, the marble track ...

Baltimore-Southern Maryland Trunk Line

Baltimore-Southern Maryland Trunk Line

Robert Crain Highway

At this point construction was started 1922.

Marker is at the intersection of Old Crain Highway and Main Street (Maryland Route 725), in the median on Old Crain Highway.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Baltimore Regional Trail

A House Divided

War on the Chesapeake Bay. During the Civil War, Baltimore and its environs exemplified the divided loyalties of Maryland’s residents. The city had commercial ties to the South as well as the North, and its secessionist sympathies ...

Baltimore City Courthouse

This “noble pile” as it was described at the dedication of January 8, 1900, is the third courthouse built on Monument Square. When Calvert Street was leveled in 1784, the original courthouse—site of the May 1774 Stamp Act Protest and ...