Baltimore City Fire Department

Dedicated to the Members of the Baltimore City Fire Department, Past, Present and Future.

Marker is at the intersection of Gay Street and E. Lexington Street, on the left when traveling north on Gay Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Baltimore Police Department

Established 1784 by an act of the Maryland Legislature.

This living memorial is dedicated by the Department to all members, past and present. Who have served with honor, dedication, and loyalty. Many of whom have made the supreme sacrifice.

Their ...

First Baptist Church, Baltimore

On this site purchased in 1773,

the first permanent meeting house, a dwelling for the pastor and a school house were erected and a cemetery established for the First Baptist Church of Baltimore Town. The present and fourth building of the ...

Baltimore Riot Trail

Flag Waving at Fawn Street

(Preface): On April 19, 1861, Confederate sympathizers attacked the 6th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as it changed trains en route to Washington, which the secessionists hoped to isolate. To learn more about the Baltimore Riot, the ...

The Colored Methodist Protestant St. John’s Chapel of Baltimore

1833

Originally constructed as a log cabin in 1833, St. John’s Chapel and land adjacent thereto served the local black community as a house of worship and burying ground. Services had been held in the present chapel since its construction in ...

Oldest High School in Baltimore County

Franklin Academy founded January 10, 1820 by an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland. On January 25, 1849 became a public school. Was Reisterstown High School from 1874–1896. Became Franklin High School in 1897.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

The Right Reverend Ernest Eugene Baltimore

1912–1999.

A distinguished clergyman, humanitarian, and civic leader in the community. Bishop Baltimore served as Senior Bishop & General President of the King’s Apostle Holiness Church of God, Inc. He was Pastor of The Baltimore Temple Church for 51 years, 1948 ...

Baltimore Street

Funkstown’s Link to the Chesapeake

When the National Road was completed through Funkstown in 1823, a rush of “stagecoaches and wagon teams, droves of cattle, teamsters and travelers” flooded through the town. Although Baltimore was seventy miles to the east, the ...

Site of “Old Baltimore”

The first County Seat of Baltimore County, 1659 to 1700, was located on Bush River. In 1683 it was made a Port of Entry by the Maryland Assembly.

Marker is on Pulaski Highway (U.S. 40) 1 mile south of Abingdon Road, ...

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Shop Complex

The roundhouse is the sole surviving cast-iron framed roundhouse and is an important example of mid-19th century industrial building design. Designed by Albert Fink, in collaboration with Benjamin H. Latrobe, it represents an early use of standardized, prefabricated iron structural ...