In 1882, when the present building of the Orchard Street Methodist Episcopal Church was dedicated, it was called “an honor to the colored race and handsome ornament to the city.” The Orchard Street congregation commissioned architect . . . — — Map (db m101925) HM
Here, at the One Mile Tavern, in 1791, the Fathers of St. Sulpice (Paris, France) founded St. Mary's, the first Roman Catholic Seminary in the United States. Maryland was then a center of Catholic activity, with Baltimore having been selected at . . . — — Map (db m7186) HM
At this site, 610 George Street, under the leadership of foundress, Mother Mary Lange, four women took vows of consecrated chastity, evangelical poverty, and religious obedience. Thus began the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first Congregation of . . . — — Map (db m5559) HM
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
After the Civil War, a large number of black Baptists migrated to Baltimore. This church was organized in 1872 by black Baptists of the Sharp-Leadenhall area, with the help of the Maryland Baptist Union Association. It is the second oldest church . . . — — Map (db m6358) HM
Solo Gibbs Park was created in 1979 when 1-395 was built. The 1869 Sachse Bird's Eye View Illustrated Map shows the once larger neighborhood where, since the late 1700s a free African American community lived, worked and worshipped along side . . . — — Map (db m6356) HM
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
Al Bumbry, probably the fastest player in Orioles history, holds the club record for stolen bases and is among career leaders in 10 other categories. Hit over .300 three times and was the first Oriole ever to get 200 hits in a single season . . . — — Map (db m247596) HM
Mike Devereaux spent seven of his 12 big league seasons with the Orioles, 1989-94 and 1996. The centerfielder earned Most Valuable Oriole honors in 1992, leading the team in 10 offensive categories and ranking among the American League . . . — — Map (db m247449) HM
Lee May was a designated hitter and first baseman who averaged 20 home runs and 81 RBI in his six seasons with the Orioles. He led the American League with 109 RBI in 1976, winning Most Valuable Oriole honors that season. Hit 20 or more . . . — — Map (db m247587) HM
Frank Robinson led the Orioles to 4 pennants in 6 Baltimore seasons. Won the Triple Crown ('66) and earned MVP awards in the A.L. ('66), World Series ('66) and All-Star Game ('71). Was 3-time Most Valuable Oriole. Elected to the Baseball Hall . . . — — Map (db m247628) HM
Ken Singleton, a 3-time Most Valuable Oriole, ranks among club career leaders in 10 different offensive categories. Chosen by fans in 1994 as the Orioles' all-time designated hitter. Led the team in batting average 5 times and in RBI twice. . . . — — Map (db m247597) HM
Harold Baines spent 22 seasons in the majors, including all or part of seven seasons in three different stints with the Orioles. He hit .291 or higher in six of his seven seasons with the Orioles and ranks among the club's all-time leaders in . . . — — Map (db m247406) HM
Eddie Murray became the third player in Major League history with 500 homers and 3,000 hits. He played 21 seasons in the majors, 12 ½ of them with the Orioles. The A.L. Rookie of the Year in 1977 and a 7-time Most Valuable Oriole, his number . . . — — Map (db m247590) HM
Elrod Hendricks spent more time in an Orioles uniform as a player and coach — 37 years — than anyone. Had three stints with the Orioles during his playing career, appearing in over 100 games in each of the Orioles' American League . . . — — Map (db m247522) HM
Paul Blair was an incomparable center fielder who won eight Gold Gloves during 12 years as an Orioles regular. Ranks among club leaders in games (1,700), runs (737), hits (1,426), doubles (269), triples (51), home runs (126), total bases . . . — — Map (db m247602) HM
Don Buford was the best leadoff hitter the Orioles have had in their first 40 years. Despite his diminutive (5'8", 170 lb.) stature, Bufe's power and speed ignited an offensive attack that led to three straight American League pennants . . . — — Map (db m247574) HM
During the Civil War, the residents of Baltimore and its environs displayed divided royalties. The city had commercial ties to the South as well as the North. Secessionist sympathies erupted in violence on April 19, 1861, when pro-Confederate . . . — — Map (db m247214) HM
Henry G. Parks, Jr., entrepreneur and civil rights pioneer, founded the Parks Sausage Company in 1951. On this site, Parks built a facility that employed 270 workers while advancing integration and equity in the workplace. Parks distributed products . . . — — Map (db m192383) HM
Young Mo Gaba captured the hearts of fans as well as players with his knowledge and love of the Orioles as expressed in call-ins to local radio sports talk shows and his visits to Camden Yards, which earned him the second-ever Wild Bill Hagy . . . — — Map (db m247404) HM
Scottish-born Robert Gilmor (1748-1822) brought his young family to Baltimore from the Eastern Shore at the outset of the Revolutionary War. Profiting from wartime shipping and industry, Gilmor emerged in the 1790s as one of Baltimore's leading . . . — — Map (db m201508) HM
In concert with many of Old West Baltimore’s civil rights organizations and leaders, African Americans entered the political arena.
As far back as 1792, Thomas Brown, an African American horse doctor and veteran of the Revolutionary War, ran . . . — — Map (db m168822) HM
The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal congregation is the oldest independent black institution in Baltimore. Its origins date back to the late 18th century, when blacks withdrew from the parent Methodist Church in protest against racially . . . — — Map (db m6237) HM
Front panel Billie Holiday 1915-1959-Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen and she was sixteen and I was three-God Bless the Child.
Right side panel Billie Holiday Born Ellanora Harris, in . . . — — Map (db m101670) HM
In the 1930s, Old West Baltimore matured into a self-sustaining, thriving community that nurtured the mind, body and spirit. Old West Baltimore was home to many churches, shops, professional offices, banks and financial institutions, educational . . . — — Map (db m168766) HM
Although the Pennsylvania Avenue of the 1920s was Baltimore’s premier shopping district for African Americans, many of the businesses that served them were owned by whites who refused to hire African Americans from the neighborhood.
In 1933, . . . — — Map (db m168767) HM
Communities grow in direct proportion to their access to capital. Potential homebuyers and business owners in Old West Baltimore needed access to money. In 1896, Everett J. Waring, along with some of Baltimore’s most prominent African Americans, . . . — — Map (db m168768) HM
Working with the Mutual United Brotherhood of Liberty (MUBL), a small group of African American lawyers living in Baltimore were committed to erasing racism within the law. But first they had to fight for the right to practice law in Maryland, . . . — — Map (db m168769) HM
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
The sudden rise of Old West Baltimore’s premier African American community occurred on a foundation of diversity. Even though it was segregated from many white areas, it was still made up of a variety of people. African Americans from all . . . — — Map (db m168824) HM
Churches serve as more than places of worship in Baltimore’s black communities. Led by strong clergy, African American churches have nurtured the soul, fed, clothed, and housed the poor, fought for civil rights, supported business and job . . . — — Map (db m168821) HM
This is a community park developed by the Special Impact Neighborhood Improvement Program and the Department of Recreatoin and Parks dedicated to the memory of Henry Highland Garnet by the Henry Highland Garnet Neighborhood Council.
Henry . . . — — Map (db m6236) HM
PS 103 is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Old West Baltimore National Register Historic District. It is one of the attractions along the Pennsylvania Avenue Heritage Trail scheduled to open in 2008 by the Baltimore . . . — — Map (db m101955) HM
Servant of God, Champion of the People, Mother of Freedom May 25, 1976 Erected by the Association for Study of Afro-American Life and History In Cooperation with the Amoco Foundation, Inc. — — Map (db m6238) HM
Old West Baltimore helped shape some of America’s greatest African American writers, artists and performers. From novelists like Amelia Johnson and Zora Neale Hurston, to artists like Romare Bearden, to the performers who appeared at The Arena . . . — — Map (db m168760) HM
In Memory of Rev. Dr. Vernon Nathaniel Dobson, October 29, 1923-January 26, 2013.
A Civil Rights Leader who Marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama with Dr. King. Helped desegregate Gwynn Oak Amusement Park, Founded the Maryland Food Bank, . . . — — Map (db m101655) HM
Named in honor of its original location, Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church descends from the first black congregation in Baltimore. In 1797, blacks gatehred at 112-116 Sharp Street, where the Maryland Society for the Abolition of Slavery . . . — — Map (db m6239) HM
Augusta Chissell & Margaret Hawkins held meetings of African American women's suffrage clubs here in their neighboring homes 1915-1916. — — Map (db m143007) HM
Welcome to the Pennsylvania Avenue Heritage Trail – a journey through Baltimore’s premier historic African American community. Here you will meet civil rights leaders, artists and musicians, attend historic African American churches, and . . . — — Map (db m168817) HM
As the Old West Baltimore neighborhood matured, Pennsylvania Avenue became a mix of theaters, shops, pubs, beauty parlors, barber shops, lunch rooms, hotel and professional offices. By the 1910s, patrons shortened the name to the . . . — — Map (db m168773) HM
"Why, of all the multitudinous groups of people in this country, do you have to single out Negroes and give them separate treatment?" Thurgood Marshall reproached the Supreme Court with this and other questions in the landmark civil rights case . . . — — Map (db m6636) HM
Union Baptist Church incorporated on May 10, 1852 as the second-oldest Negro Baptist church in Baltimore. This structure was built at a cost of $51,256 and dedicated on December 17, 1905. Architect William J. Beardsley designed the church in a Late . . . — — Map (db m101636) HM
Oldest cemetery for African Americans in Baltimore, founded in 1872 by Rev. James Peck, pastor, and trustees of Sharp Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Dating to 1787, the congregation served the community and was influential in the freedom . . . — — Map (db m13540) HM
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
Dorsey's Forge (1761-1815):
"At that time there were two Negroes belonging to Edward H. Dorsey, a Negro man called Prince, who was a forgeman, and a Negro man called Sam who was a striker in a Blacksmith shop." - Maryland Chancery . . . — — Map (db m8842) HM
This plaque is in commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the opening of the Benjamin Banneker Museum. (June 9, 1998) the result of a collaborative effort between the Friends of Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum and Baltimore County . . . — — Map (db m144731) HM
On September 10, 1935, Black students Lucille Scott and Margaret Williams were denied admittance to Catonsville High School. NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall filed suit. Although they lost the case, Maryland's Court of Appeals . . . — — Map (db m128246) HM
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
This orchard grows to remind us of the care and work Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) devoted to his land long ago. Cultivation of this orchard began in 2008 with a variety of fruit trees similar to what Banneker grew. He may have also collected wild . . . — — Map (db m103478) HM
The self-educated Negro mathematician and astronomer was born, lived his entire life and died near here.
He assisted in surveying the District of Columbia, 1791, and published the first Maryland Almanac, 1792. Thomas Jefferson recognized his . . . — — Map (db m160718) HM
This 1877 “Plan of Catonsville” lays outs all the possibilities of an energetic and emerging suburb of Baltimore, only eight miles, or a one-day carriage ride, to the east. The centerpiece of the town is the Frederick Turnpike, part of the road . . . — — Map (db m5500) HM
The Ellicott brothers constructed what became the first leg of the Baltimore and Frederick-Town Turnpike to get their flour to market in Baltimore. By 1787, they cut a new road east through the forests to shorten the trip to the city. This route . . . — — Map (db m128248) HM
Named in honor of Robert and Jane Meyerhoff, whose commitment to nurturing the potential of others launched the Meyerhoff Scholarship program at UMBC and established the University as a leader in achieving both excellence and diversity. Their . . . — — Map (db m145233) HM
This plaque commemorates Robert Bannaky, the colonial African American father and farmer. He purchased this historic land in 1737, with the sale of 7,000 pounds of tobacco. Robert was from Guinea (present day Ghana/Nigeria region of Africa), . . . — — Map (db m78504) HM
If you had been standing here in 1850, you could have witnessed this scene. Mining of iron ore took place at the Oregon ore banks from 1820 to 1887.
"The Oregon Ore Pits"
The depression in front of you was one of three primary pits providing . . . — — Map (db m219163) HM
The Trolley Trail runs on the track bed built for the #9 Route that connected Ellicott City to Catonsville and Baltimore. Many used the line to get to work or shop in Baltimore. "I could tell by the color whether to board the front or the . . . — — Map (db m144720) HM
Buried in an unmarked grave near here lies the remains of Benjamin Banneker, distinguished son of Maryland, who was born, lived, and died in this area. — — Map (db m66604) HM
First Sgt. Augustus Walley, a Reisterstown native, awarded The Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery at Cuchillo Negro Mountain, New Mexico. Dedicated on the 100th anniversary of The Spanish-American War July 13, 1998. — — Map (db m7196) HM
Slave/Workers Quarters, ca 1855 To our eyes, the stone facades and decorative woodwork that adorn these buildings seem at odds with their use as slave quarters. But the entire farm site—based on a popular European architectural concept called . . . — — Map (db m78687) HM
264 ► Maryland, Baltimore County, Towson — Corn Culture — Mule Barn, constructed 1855, Corncrib, ca. 1845, destroyed by fire, 1989 — Hampton National Historic Site, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —
There were lots of mouths to feed on a large plantation like Hampton and this made corn an all-important crop. Hard or “dent “corn was used as feed for livestock and ground into cornmeal for slaves as well as for the Ridgelys’ pantry. . . . — — Map (db m78633) HM
This gated cemetery, where generations of Ridgleys are buried, is still in use by the family. Feel free to enter and walk among the tombstones and monuments, but show proper respect. Notice the family vault at center, the names and inscriptions on . . . — — Map (db m83524) HM
Lynching in America
At least 6,500 Black people were the victims of racial terror lynching in the United States between 1865 and 1950. After the Civil War, violent resistance to equal rights for African Americans and an ideology of white . . . — — Map (db m174864) HM
These two stone buildings, which replaced earlier log structures, housed slaves before the Civil War. After the abolition of slavery, they provided quarters for plantation and farm workers — — Map (db m92522) HM
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 1886. The . . . — — Map (db m2286) HM
The ingenious design of this building enabled the Ridgelys to produce fine dairy products here for 150 years. Built into the ground to maintain coolness, the structure is also shaded by low-hanging eaves. Inside you will see a natural refrigeration . . . — — Map (db m144064) HM
Lower House, constructed ca. 1745; with later additions in the 1700s to ca. 1950.
This building, historically referred to as the “Lower House” by the Ridgely family, served a variety of purposes. Originally, Hampton’s first master, . . . — — Map (db m78645) HM
Some of the finest Thoroughbred horses in the country lived in the stable to your left. Horses with names such as "Grey Medeley," "Post Boy" and "Tuckahoe" enhanced the reputation and purses of their owners. As founding members of the Baltimore . . . — — Map (db m144063) HM
Hampton National Historic Site preserves the core of a large estate owned by the Ridgely family from the Colonial era until 1948. During the early 1800s, it formed the hub of a vast agricultural and industrial enterprise numbering over 25,000 acres. . . . — — Map (db m144060) HM
Carver High School was one of the three schools built simultaneously in 1939 by Baltimore County to educate colored students in grades 8 through 12. Previously, those students were sent to Baltimore city for high school. The Carver School replaced a . . . — — Map (db m226653) HM
Research indicated that the Jacob House log cabin was originally built in the 1840s by a former slave freed from the nearby plantation estate known as Hampton, owned by the Ridgely family, or from a smaller plantation known as Stevenson.
It . . . — — Map (db m226687) HM
East Towson celebrate two families believed to be the earliest known residents of the Jacob House. In the 1890s, Eliza Johnson's name appeared in local tax records. Area residents believe Ms. Johnson was a freed slave from the nearby Stevenson . . . — — Map (db m226985) HM
Founded by freed slaves
from the Hampton estate.
East Towson grew to become a vibrant,
largely African American community.
Dedicated 2017 — — Map (db m226617) HM
Built for the African American Community in 1874 as a school for children in the Loreley area and as home to this “benevolent” society, founded in 1872. Beginning in the late 18th century, such mutual aid societies, often formed by . . . — — Map (db m152189) HM
Before the American Revolution, Lower Marlborough (the spelling officially changed to Marlboro in the 19th century) was a thriving port town with large homes, inns, stores, warehouses, a sawmill, a tobacco inspection station, and the British . . . — — Map (db m94704) HM
Oldest standing one-room schoolhouse for
African American students in Calvert County.
Offered education for grades 1-7 in the
Wallville community. Illustrates the
segregated educational facilities of the late
19th and early 20th centuries. . . . — — Map (db m54367) HM
The first public high school for African Americans in Calvert County was opened in 1938 and served until desegregation in 1966. Named for William Sampson Brooks (1865–1934). Born in Calvert County, Rev. Brooks was an advocate of education, . . . — — Map (db m29522) HM
JPPM archaeologists had long known that a stone house foundation, overgrown with weeds, sat in the woods in front of you. But who had lived there was a mystery. Then in 1996, two former local residents---Daniel and Minnie Octavia Gross . . . — — Map (db m81090) HM
The Honorable Thomas Parran (1860-1955)
Thomas Parran, the St. Leonard citizen who played a key role in the construction of the St. Leonard Polling House, was born on February 12, 1860, on the Chestnut Hill Farm (see map) in St. Leonard . . . — — Map (db m181801) HM
During the period of racially segregated education, elementary school teacher Brown enlisted the N.A.A.C.P. and attorney Thurgood Marshall to challenge the inequity of separate salary scales for public school teachers based on race. Her case was . . . — — Map (db m5573) HM
While the Choptank River could pose a troublesome barrier to those without a boat, others used the river as a path to freedom.
Josiah Bailey, an enslaved logger and shipbuilder, rowed six miles up the river. His destination was Poplar Neck, . . . — — Map (db m79172) HM
With more free than enslaved blacks and a sympathetic Quaker population, Caroline County was a hotbed of Underground Railroad activity until slavery was abolished in Maryland in 1864.
Slaves, freemen of color, and whites often . . . — — Map (db m205449) HM
Many facets of 19th century rural life focused on a county’s courthouse. Elected officials, lawyers, merchants, and ordinary citizens all had reasons to gather at the Caroline County Courthouse Square. For the enslaved and abolitionists, the . . . — — Map (db m79340) HM
The Choptank River was as entwined with the history of slavery and freedom on the Eastern Shore as any plantation. Slaves arrived by boat for auction and left the dock in the hands of a new owner. At wharves like this, black watermen played an . . . — — Map (db m79342) HM
Once the Native American population was annihilated, dislocated, or marginalized by the public s well as private efforts, the type of crop grown had a great impact on the new residents of Edmondson's Reserve.
The first successful crop . . . — — Map (db m199272) HM
Although isolated from Maryland's largest population centers, the Eastern Shore was important to the state's role in the Civil War and exemplified the citizens' divided loyalties.
In the years before the war, enslaved African-Americans here . . . — — Map (db m113505) HM
Growing up as a slave near Easton, MD, Moses Viney often heard, "The wild geese come from Canada, where all are free." When he was 23 years old, Moses learned he might be sold to a new owner in the Deep South. To avoid this fate, he and two . . . — — Map (db m79341) HM
While playing with his eight-year-old brother in front of their enslaved mother's "cottage", a six-year-old slave boy named Peter Still and his brother were sold "down South" in 1806 by the owner of Edmondson's Reserve.
Peter's . . . — — Map (db m199279) HM
Maryland slaves were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, which excluded states that remained in the Union from its provisions. It was Maryland's new constitution, adopted by the narrow margin of 291 votes of almost 60,000 cast on . . . — — Map (db m3389) HM
Reminiscent of William Styron's novel entitled Sophie's Choice about Nazis in World War II dividing a mother from her children, a small but profound drama played out in 1806 in Caroline County: An enslaved mother named Sydney Still was . . . — — Map (db m199276) HM
A large brick structure that stood here for over two centuries had many historic uses.
Alms House (c. 1792-1826): County officials could commit a person to the "Poor House" with legal due process. The inmates had to work hard, sleep . . . — — Map (db m198805) HM
The Denton wharf, here on the Choptank River, was the site of endless steamboat traffic, escapes of enslaved people on the Underground Railroad, and the arrests of active secessionists during the Civil War.
On August 17, 1862, the steamboat . . . — — Map (db m205463) HM
The historic dwelling on on this site is not original to the tract of land first called Edmondson's Reserve. No original buildings survive from Edmondson's Reserve, which was first used as a private Indian Reservation, then as . . . — — Map (db m199275) HM
The diet of enslaved persons was especially poor in nutrition, protein, and calcium. It came from three main sources.
Rations: Frederick Douglass, enslaved in a county adjoining Caroline, stated:
Revolutionary War Patriot
Thomas Carney, a free African-American from Caroline County, served valiantly
in the Continental Army with the Maryland Line. A survivor of Valley Forge, he fought
in nine battles from Brandywine, PA to Eutaw Springs SC, . . . — — Map (db m226124) HM
The Quakers, also known as Friends, who met in this Meeting House not only held strong opinions on the abolition of slavery and women’s rights, but they also acted on those beliefs.
After 1790, the Friends who gathered here refused membership to . . . — — Map (db m79354) HM
Welcome to Caroline County! The Civil War intruded into quiet Eastern Shore communities, and residents of this beautiful, water-laced region faced difficult choices.
In the years before the war, enslaved African Americans from the Eastern . . . — — Map (db m205444) HM
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