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The Baltimore
The harbor inspection tug, BALTIMORE, is th...
Bosley Hall/The Old Baltimore Jail
It is ironic that local executives turned the Old Baltimor...
The Baltimore County Water and Electric Company
The basin in front of you and the house beside you are rem...
The First Unitarian Church of Baltimore
(Unitarian and Universalist)
In 1817, when Baltimo...
The McDonoghs of Baltimore
Baltimoreans associated the name McDonogh with a well-know...
The Municipal Museum of the City of Baltimore
This house was built by Rembrandt Peale in 1814 as a Natur...
The Baltimore Battery
The Baltimore Battery (Confederate) fired from this spot i...
The Great Baltimore Fire
On Sunday morning, February 7, 1904, a spark ignited blank...
The Port of Baltimore
The National Road begins and ends here
Moving Good...
The Baltimore & Frederick-Town Turnpike
A Transportation Revolution started here
Maryland ...
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The Baltimore
The harbor inspection tug, BALTIMORE, is the oldest operating steam-powered, coal-fired tugboat in the country. The ship was built in 1906 by the Skinner Shipbuilding Company in Baltimore, Maryland. The hull is constructed of riveted iron and the deckhouse ...
Bosley Hall/The Old Baltimore Jail
It is ironic that local executives turned the Old Baltimore County Jail, which once housed convicted felons during the 18th and 19th centuries, into an office building.
Still showing off its pre-Civil War prison architecture, visitors to the city of ...
The Baltimore County Water and Electric Company
The basin in front of you and the house beside you are remnants of the Baltimore County Water and Electric Company that operated here from 1910 to 1922. the company, founded by Victor G. Bloede, supplied pressurized water to parts ...
The First Unitarian Church of Baltimore
(Unitarian and Universalist)
In 1817, when Baltimore Town boasted 60,000 inhabitants and Mount Vernon Place was still a forest, a group of leading citizens met in the home of Henry Payson "to form a religious society and build a church ...
The McDonoghs of Baltimore
Baltimoreans associated the name McDonogh with a well-known private school founded in 1873. Buried here are the parents of the school's founder, Irish natives John (1734-1809) and Elizabeth McDonogh (1747-1808).
John McDonogh, a brickmaker, took part in two events that shaped ...
The Municipal Museum of the City of Baltimore
This house was built by Rembrandt Peale in 1814 as a Natural History Museum and Gallery of the Fine Arts. Robert Carey Long was the Architect. Purchased by the City of Baltimore, 1830, Jacob Small being Mayor, it was occupied ...
The Baltimore Battery
The Baltimore Battery (Confederate) fired from this spot into the Union forces in the Cornfield. It included a 12-pounder iron howitzer (like the small gun before you), the only one of its kind among the 500 cannon at Antietam.
Marker can ...
The Great Baltimore Fire
On Sunday morning, February 7, 1904, a spark ignited blankets and cotton goods in the firm of John E. Hurst and Company, which stood between Hopkins Place and Liberty on the south side of German (now Redwood) Street. Flames leapt ...
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 ...
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 ...