On Greenmount Avenue (Maryland Route 45) at East 33rd Street, on the right when traveling south on Greenmount Avenue.
The York road dates back to the 1740s when it was merely a dirt path following a trail worn down by Piscataway and Susquehannock tribes between the Jones Falls and the Herring Run above the Patapsco River and the Chesapeake Bay along the Fall . . . — — Map (db m195013) HM
On Dolphin Street at Bolton Street, on the right when traveling west on Dolphin Street.
William Gailes Contee and Edward Wilson Parago, Sr.
Contee-Parago Park is one of the first City parks to be named after Black Baltimoreans: Edward Wilson Parago, Sr. (1898-1983), a postal worker, and William Gailes Contee, an upholsterer . . . — — Map (db m212325) HM
On North Paca Street (Maryland Route 129), on the left when traveling north.
In 1791, at the invitation of Bishop John Carroll, the first bishop in the United States, Sulpician priests came to Baltimore from France to found St. Mary's Seminary, the nation's oldest Catholic seminary. After establishing the seminary in a . . . — — Map (db m219570) HM
On O'Donnell Street. Reported permanently removed.
Captain John O’Donnell, the founder of the Canton Community, was a man of great vision and accomplishment. He initiated trade between Canton, China and Baltimore in 1785 operating his own merchant sailing vessels. This public square once the site . . . — — Map (db m184475) HM
On Boston Street at South East Street, on the right when traveling east on Boston Street.
Capt. John O'Donnell, considered the founder of Canton, made his fortune trading in East Asia. Around 1875, he settled in the Canton area and named his plantation after the port city of Canton, China. Capt. O'Donnell became an enslaver, and the . . . — — Map (db m212897) HM
On Washington Boulevard at Bush Street, on the right when traveling south on Washington Boulevard.
For more than one hundred years Carroll Park has served the historic Washington Village/Pigtown neighborhood, whose rowhouses once provided lodging for workers employed at the B&O Railroad, streetcar maintenance barns across the street (now used . . . — — Map (db m220061) HM
This outstanding Georgian mansion, built between 1754 and 1768, was the home of Charles Carroll, Barrister and framer of Maryland’s first Constitution and Declaration of Rights. Carroll and his wife Margaret Tilghman made Mount Clare a center of . . . — — Map (db m3152) HM
“Ruscombe” (meaning brown hill) was built in 1866 by James Wood Tyson, the younger brother of Jesse Tyson who built the nearby Cylburn Mansion. By the 1860’s, the Tyson dynasty, long one of Baltimore’s pre-eminent Quaker and . . . — — Map (db m114587) HM
On West Saratoga Street at Charles Street, on the right when traveling west on West Saratoga Street.
City Center, also known as Charles Center, was transformed in the 1950's to be Baltimore's central business district. City Center has been the fastest growing residential neighborhood since 2000. Learn more about the Resident Life at the City Center . . . — — Map (db m210766) HM
On East Lexington Street, on the left when traveling east.
[This marker portrays the subject in a pictorial manner. It shows the major streets of Baltimore in 1729. The six stars on the map represent the locations of this and five other identical markers.] — — Map (db m7483) HM
On West Fayette Street at Greene Street, on the left when traveling west on West Fayette Street.
When leaders of First Presbyterian Church decided to build an new church atop their 18th-century burying ground, they hoped to serve Baltimore’s growing west end and protect their burial place from being diverted to other uses.
Construction . . . — — Map (db m2413) HM
On Saint Paul Street (Maryland Route 2), on the right when traveling south.
Cecilivs Calvert Baron Baltimore of Baltimore in the Kingdom of Ireland•Absolvte Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon in America•Who on November 13, 1633 with the co-operation and assent of the first Colonists, proclaimed in . . . — — Map (db m89251) HM
On East Lexington Street at Holliday Street, on the left on East Lexington Street.
Founder in 1755, Zion Church is the oldest Lutheran congregation in Maryland. German Lutherans began settling in Baltimore Town shortly after it was laid out in 1730. Relying on itinerant preachers from Pennsylvania, the small struggling community . . . — — Map (db m2714) HM
On Silver Spring Drive just east of Elephant Landing, on the right when traveling east.
Because elephants are so big, they take little notice of fences. They either step over them or walk right through them.
In 2009, the dry Boteti River began flowing again. It forms the western boundary of the Makgadikgadi Pans National . . . — — Map (db m189092) HM
On Lemur Lane east of African Journey, on the left when traveling east.
In Latin, lemur means "ghost."
In Malagasky folklore, lemurs appear as sacred spirits never to be harmed.
In reality, lemurs are wide-eyed prosimian primates facing an uncertain future.
Lemurs inhabit the . . . — — Map (db m212313) HM
On Polar Bear Watch west of Buffalo Yard Road, on the right when traveling east.
In their thousands of years of existence, grizzlies never faced a competitor as relentless, hostile, and lethal as the American pioneer.
Competition has always been a reality for American grizzlies. They competed with much larger Ice Age . . . — — Map (db m212310) HM
On Silver Spring Drive east of Elephant Landing, on the right when traveling east.
"Projects such as chili pepper fences or beehive fences are in my opinion the answer to human-elephant conflict. Empowering the community so that they feel they can live alongside wildlife can change attitudes in an instant." . . . — — Map (db m189099) HM
On William Street just north of East Churchill Street, on the right when traveling north.
This property is listed on the National Register [of Historic Places]
as part of
Federal Hill
National Historic District
and is registered with the
Preservation Society
1857 — — Map (db m189937) HM
On Shakespeare Street just east of South Bethel Street, on the left when traveling west.
Public and private documents show this lot owned by Wm Fell & sold to Thomas Usher in 1789. The present front section of four rooms was built in 1792. The condition now began as a complete renovation in 1986. Now complete. — — Map (db m145480) HM
In the early 1780s Ann Bond Fell Giles laid out for development the area called Fell's Point, just south of the existing Fell's Prospect community. Development was in part to provide housing needed to meet the demands of the growing maritime . . . — — Map (db m109369) HM
On Shakespeare Street just west of South Bethel Street, on the left when traveling west.
In memory of
Edward Fell
Maryland 1723 from Lancaster, England. Acquired land, Jonestown. Later part of Baltimore Town. Importer, died 1743.
William Fell
Brother of Edward. Maryland 1730. Married Sarah Bond 1732. Acquired thousand . . . — — Map (db m145477) HM
On South Ann Street, on the right when traveling south.
Built in 1765 by a young Fell's Point merchant, this House is Baltimore's oldest surviving urban residence. The furnishings in the parlor are the Maryland State Society Daughters of the American Revolution 1973-1976 United States of America . . . — — Map (db m6457) HM
In the mid-1800s this meadow and hillside were part of Thomas Winans' country estate, the Crimea. After returning from Russia, where he helped build the St. Petersburg-Moscow railroad, Winans established this estate. He and his Russian-born wife, . . . — — Map (db m6336) HM
On North Charles Street at University Parkway on North Charles Street.
Part of “Merryman’s Lott” 210 acres of virgin timberland granted by Lord Baltimore in 1688 to Charles Merryman, whose descendants farmed here until 1869. Stone house built in 19th century occupied by Bishops of Maryland since 1909, when . . . — — Map (db m2452) HM
On Falls Road (Maryland Route 25) 0.1 miles south of 36th Street, on the right when traveling south.
Surveyed for John Walsh in 1754, large square cupola once crowned brick mansion. Built in Italianate style c.1860 by Henry Snyder. Leased after 1864 to James Hooper, owner of Meadow Mill. Estate was sold in 1870 to David Carroll, co-owner of Mount . . . — — Map (db m2520) HM
On Herring Run Trail, 0.5 miles Belair Road, on the right when traveling west.
Home of a Founding U.S. Congressman
William Smith was born in 1728 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He became a successful merchant, and moved to Baltimore in 1761 to expand his shipping business. At the time, revolutionary feelings were . . . — — Map (db m153967) HM
On West Baltimore Street just west of South Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, on the left when traveling west.
This land was once the magnificent estate of Thomas Dekay Winans, an engineer who made a fortune during the 1840's supervising the construction of the first Russian transcontinental railroad. The engineer named his estate "Alexandroffsky," in . . . — — Map (db m166997) HM
The successive failures of the potato crops in the 1840’s, the inability or willingness of the British Parliament to respond to the ensuing famine, forced evictions of the peasants from their homeland by British landlords, epidemics and resulting . . . — — Map (db m101384) HM
Baltimore began as a humble waterfront village in 1729. It burst into prominence as America expanded westward, forging a role as a major trading and transportation center that linked the nation’s interior to the world. From a mere 25 wooden houses . . . — — Map (db m104058) HM
On East Pratt Street at South Gay Street, on the right when traveling east on East Pratt Street.
Between the eastern coastal and the western mountains, lie the rolling hills of the Piedmont Plateau. Piedmont literally means "foot of the mountain." Its rolling hills were formed from the sediment of the once majestic Appalachians. Over 200 . . . — — Map (db m183361) HM
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 out of control . . . — — Map (db m6154) HM
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 markets in America’s heartland. It began with local farmers . . . — — Map (db m6140) HM
In the 1840's, William Wilkens, a German immigrant, founded the Wilkens Brush Company. Wilkens was a pioneer of large-scale industrial production in Baltimore. The Wilkens Building was constructed with a cast-iron front manufactured by Bartlet . . . — — Map (db m10007) HM
The building's on the south side of this block have changed dramatically to meet the needs of an ever-changing city. First built a private homes, since the late 19th century they have housed community institution devoted to the spiritual, cultural, . . . — — Map (db m97356) HM
On Front Street, 0.1 miles north of Lombard Street, on the left when traveling south.
Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737–1832), the last surviving, and only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence, wintered here during the last twelve years of his life.
Built circa 1808, the mansion is the grandest . . . — — Map (db m3204) HM
Archaeologists discovered a buried cistern two and one half feet below you. A cistern is a receptacle for holding water, especially rainwater.
In eighteenth-century Baltimore, water came from wells, creeks, and natural springs, which were found . . . — — Map (db m102929) HM
The landscape of Historic Jonestown reveals four centuries of American History. From 18th and 19th century landmarks to vestiges of an immigrant past, from signs of 20th ceentury decline to a bold 21st century rebirth, its streetscapes tell an . . . — — Map (db m108922) HM
On North Haubert Street north of Key Highway East, on the right when traveling north.
Before 1821 immigrants from the German States, England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, France, Haiti, as well as African slave arrived in Baltimore in relatively small numbers, fewer than 1,000 per year on average.
From 1821 to . . . — — Map (db m131173) HM
On North Haubert Street north of Key Highway East, on the right when traveling north.
Over 1.2 million European immigrants disembarked near this site, on piers six through nine, as part of the "Great Wave" immigration period from 1868 to 1914. The majority of these immigrants came on ships of the North German Lloyd Steamship . . . — — Map (db m131174) HM
Near Constellation Plaza, 0.1 miles east of Wallace Street, on the right when traveling east.
Artillery Engineer, employed by the people of Baltimore in 1794 to draw up plans for the star bastion fort with upper and lower batteries. — — Map (db m145553) HM
On West Preston Street just east of North Eutaw Street, on the left when traveling west.
Mount Vernon Cultural District
Mount Vernon Cultural District provides an unequaled richness of cultural experience. Since the founding of the Peabody Institute in 1857, Mount Vernon has enjoyed a continuing association with the arts. . . . — — Map (db m248771) HM
Near East Biddle Street west of North Wolfe Street, on the right when traveling east.
Where you are standing was open land until the early 1870s when the McDonough Place Land Company constructed blocks of rowhouses for workers drawn to Baltimore by growing industry like canning, shipbuilding, brewing, and the building trades. . . . — — Map (db m232412) HM
On Park Avenue at North Howard Street, on the right when traveling east on Park Avenue.
Mount Vernon Cultural District provides an unequaled richness of cultural experience. Since the founding of the Peabody Institute in 1857, Mount Vernon has enjoyed a continuing association with the arts. Nineteenth Century Philanthropist George . . . — — Map (db m194805) HM
On East Cold Spring Lane near Montebello Terrace, on the right when traveling west.
In 1917, Morgan State College (now University) moved to its current location. Dr. John O Spencer, the fourth University President, had a vision of a community for Morgan faculty and other Black professionals. At the time, restrictive Jim Crow laws . . . — — Map (db m228789) HM
On East Centre Street at St. Paul Street (Maryland Route 2) on East Centre Street.
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior
Chimney Corner Building
1812 A.D. — — Map (db m6130) HM
On West Mount Vernon Place, on the right when traveling east.
Built in 1850, Hackerman House, formerly the Thomas-Jencks-Gladding Mansion, was given to the City of Baltimore by Willard and Lillian Hackerman in 1984 and conveyed to the Walters Art Museum by the Honorable William Donald Schaefer in 1985. . . . — — Map (db m6019) HM
On Washington Place at East Mt. Vernon Place, on the right when traveling north on Washington Place.
Mount Vernon Cultural District provides an unequaled richness of cultural experience. Since the founding of the Peabody Institute in 1857, Mount Vernon has enjoyed a continuing association with the arts. Nineteenth Century Philanthropist George . . . — — Map (db m168789) HM
On West Mount Vernon Place, on the right when traveling east.
Built in 1849, this house was the home of William T. Walters (1819-1894) and his son Henry Walters (1848-1931), successful Baltimore merchants and bankers and avid collectors of art. At his death, Henry Walters bequeathed this building, his . . . — — Map (db m6020) HM
On Washington Place at East Mt. Vernon Place, on the right when traveling north on Washington Place.
Baltimore's Washington Monument is the first monument in the United States erected in memory of the country's founder, George Washington. The Monument was built by a private Board of Managers, who in 1809 petitioned the Maryland legislature to . . . — — Map (db m142377) HM
On South Sharp Street at West Hill Street, on the right when traveling south on South Sharp Street.
The Federal Hill and Otterbein Historic Districts exemplify preservation efforts in Baltimore. Adjacent to the Inner Harbor, they were among the earliest areas developed in the city. After periods of economic prosperity and decline, these historic . . . — — Map (db m6357) HM
Near West Pratt Street (U.S. 40). Reported permanently removed.
For several decades in the early 1800s, thousands of Conestoga Wagons, “ships of inland commerce,” ruled the National Road. With their sloping bodies, wheels taller than a man and six-horse teams skillfully maneuvered with a single “jerk line,” . . . — — Map (db m5705) HM
On South Poppleton Street just south of West Pratt Street, on the left when traveling south.
The National Road was the first American highway funded by Congress. Construction began in 1811 for a 620-mile route starting at Cumberland, Maryland, and, by 1841, extending to Vandalia, IL. Designed for stagecoaches and Conestoga wagons taking . . . — — Map (db m243533) HM
On Remington Avenue just south of West 28th Street, on the right when traveling south.
Remington shared its early history with other nearby communities that formed along the Jones Falls river. The mills build along the Falls, whose 260-foot drop powered grist mills, iron foundries and textile mills all played a key role in the . . . — — Map (db m166959) HM
Near West Cromwell Street at Clarkson Street, on the right when traveling east.
"aboundance of fish lying so thicke with their heads above water, as for want of nets we attempted to catch them with a frying pan…"
Captain John Smith, 1608
You are overlooking the Middle . . . — — Map (db m212915) HM
Near West Cromwell Street at Clarkson Street, on the right when traveling east.
The resource-rich lands along the Middle Branch attracted entrepreneurs. As early as 1719, men like John Moale mined the land's iron ore and harvested the nearby forests to stoke the iron works. By the mid-twentieth century, subsequent . . . — — Map (db m212917) HM
Near West Cromwell Street at Clarkson Street, on the right when traveling east.
Westport is one of the oldest communities in Baltimore. Settlers established farms here as early as 1675. The Baltimore Iron Works Company formed in the 1730s, established a pattern of growth that included industrial development, followed by . . . — — Map (db m212918) HM
On Roland Park Avenue at Upland Road, on the left when traveling north on Roland Park Avenue.
One of nation’s oldest planned garden suburbs. Named for Roland Thornberry, a Baltimore County landowner. English investors backed 100-acre development proposed by William Edmunds and Edward H. Boulton, and the Roland Park Company was incorporated . . . — — Map (db m2524) HM
On West Henrietta Street at South Sharp Street, on the right when traveling south on West Henrietta Street.
Solo Gibbs Park is at the center of an African American community that has existed in South Baltimore since the late 1700s. Prominent blacks associated with the neighborhood include abolitionist Frederick Douglass, youth-activities . . . — — Map (db m192385) HM
On West Hamburg Street, on the right when traveling east.
Slavery, segregation, discrimination, and the struggle for equality have defined the African American experience in Baltimore. At the start of the Civil War, Baltimore had 25,680 free blacks-more than any other U.S. city-and only 2,218 slaves. Over . . . — — Map (db m6355) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m4944) HM
Irish-born adventurer John O’Donnell (1749–1805) was a native of Limerick who made his way to India as a youth. He sailed into Baltimore on a late summer day in 1785 aboard a ship laden with Chinese goods, thus opening Baltimore’s trade . . . — — Map (db m6635) HM
Bernard von Kapff (1770-1829) put his stamp on early Baltimore as a merchant, public figure and leader of the German community. A native of Detmold in northern Germany, von Kapff established a tobacco importing business in 1795, and later joined . . . — — Map (db m6649) HM
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, . . . — — Map (db m6633) HM
On West Lafayette Avenue at Druid Hill Avenue on West Lafayette Avenue.
The creation of Baltimore’s premier African American neighborhood, which began with African Americans buying houses along Druid Hill Avenue, sparked segregation battles and practices throughout the country and the world. Dramatic change from . . . — — Map (db m168782) HM
On Windsor Mill Road at Weatheredsville Road, on the right when traveling west on Windsor Mill Road.
Dickeyville has been known by several other names - Tschudi, Franklinville, Wetheredville, Hillsdale - depending on who owned the grist, paper, or textile mills powered by the Gwynns Falls. Both the Wethereds and Dickeys ran their mill operations . . . — — Map (db m6339) HM
On Craddock Avenue just south of East Cold Spring Lane, on the left when traveling east.
This was the home of Harry O. Wilson, African American banker, real estate developer, and founder of the Mutual Benefit Society. He was one of the wealthiest and most influential men in Baltimore—African American or white—in the early 20th . . . — — Map (db m189864) HM
On Sweet Air Road (Maryland Route 145) 0.1 miles east of Manor Road, on the right.
500 acre grant in 1704 to Thomas MacNemara. Later called “Sweet Air.” Charles and Daniel Carroll, MacNemara’s kinsmen, acquired the property and sold it in 1751 to Roger Boyce, who built the present house. It was purchased in 1785 for . . . — — Map (db m2052) HM
On Pleasantville Road at Fork Road / Baldwin Mill Road, on the right on Pleasantville Road.
In this valley 7031 acres laid out, 1683, for Charles, Third Lord Baltimore. Opened to settlers, 1721 by Charles, Fifth Lord Baltimore. Frederick, Sixth Lord Baltimore, ordered manor sold, 1766. Land remaining 1782 seized and sold as confiscated . . . — — Map (db m129902) HM
Near Bentley Road, 0.8 miles east of Kauffman Road, on the right when traveling east.
To look at Bentley Springs today it is difficult to imagine its past as a major destination from Baltimore along the Northern Central Railroad. This small village in upper Baltimore County is located just 4 miles below the Mason-Dixon line and 31 . . . — — Map (db m146982) HM
On Ruxton Road (Maryland Route 133) at Falls Road (Maryland Route 25), on the left on Ruxton Road.
The first inhabitant of this village, dating back to 1706, was Richard Gist, father of the Revolutionary War hero, Mordecai Gist. The industrial development of the Jones Falls Turnpike Road, circa 1806, and later by the Baltimore and Susquehanna . . . — — Map (db m2272) HM
Near Oella Avenue just north of Old Frederick Road, on the left when traveling north. Reported permanently removed.
You are standing on what was once part of Benjamin Banneker's farmstead. Mary and Robert, Benjamin's parents, purchased a 100 acre parcel in 1737 for 7,000 pounds of tobacco. Benjamin was a small child when he moved from the Elkridge area to this . . . — — Map (db m225173) HM
On Frederick Road, on the right when traveling west.
A gift from Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Castle Thunder, the home of Richard and Mary Carroll Caton, stood on this site from 1787 to 1906.
The 7-mile Frederick Turnpike stone marker of 1804 was moved here from its original position 3/10 . . . — — Map (db m4910) HM
On Shawan Road at Western Run Road, on the right when traveling west on Shawan Road.
Colonel Nicholas Merryman Bosley, builder, 1810, awarded silver tankard “by the hand of Lafayette” for best cultivated Maryland farm, 1824. Also home of John Merryman, early importer, 1848, of registered Hereford cattle, still, 1967, . . . — — Map (db m2280) HM
Furnace Construction
Careful planning and design along with experienced mechanics were required when constructing an iron smelting furnace. The furnace at Oregon Ridge was situated under the crest of a small bluff directly to your front. This . . . — — Map (db m219137) HM
Making it Work
Located on site were most of the resources necessary to support the production of pig iron, including iron ore, water, and marble stone. Anthracite coal transported on the North Central Railway from Pennsylvania was used as a . . . — — Map (db m219138) HM
Iron Master
The Iron Master was hired by the furnace owners to manage the original construction of the furnace and all related smelting operations. A good Iron Master had many skills including experience as a mechanical engineer, market analyst, . . . — — Map (db m219147) HM
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