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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10L_mount-clare-the-georgia-plantation_Baltimore-MD.html
In the late 1760's, the Mount Clare mansion was built by Charles Carroll, Barrister and his wife, Margaret Tilghman, as their summer home. The mansion was located on the grounds of the original plantation, Georgia, and included an orangery, orchar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10K_first-dental-college_Baltimore-MD.html
Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, first dental college in the world chartered by the General Assembly of Maryland March 6, 1840. Founders were Horace H. Hayden, M.D., D.D.S. and Chap A. Harris M.D., D.D.S. The Assembly stipulated by Act of Cons…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10G_h-irvine-keyser_Baltimore-MD.html
This site and these buildings were presented to the Maryland Historical Society as a memorial to my husband H. Irvine Keyser of Baltimore. Obit May 7, 1916. A member of the Society 1873 to 1916.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10E_roland-park_Baltimore-MD.html
National Register of Historic Places. 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 th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10D_first-boy-scout-armory_Baltimore-MD.html
On this site, May 20, 1911, Ernest Thompson Seton, founder of the Boy Scouts of America, laid the cornerstone of the first Boy Scout Armory in the United States, and 30 acres of land were presented to the Mount Washington Boy Scouts for park and p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10B_evergreen-on-the-falls_Baltimore-MD.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM107_fells-point_Baltimore-MD.html
A colonial maritime community established 1726 by William Fell, shipbuilder of Lancashire, England. In this area were built more than six hundred ships from the colonial era through the Civil War. Birthplace of the U.S. Frigate "Constellation" and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZV_edgar-allan-poe-house_Baltimore-MD.html
"The little house in the lowly street with the lovely name." This was how Edgar Allan Poe described 203 Amity Street, where he lived from 1832 to 1835 with his grandmother, aunt, and cousin Virginia, whom he married in 1836.
While living here, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYC_bon-secours-hospital_Baltimore-MD.html
Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours, a nursing order founded in France in 1824, sent three members to Baltimore in May, 1881, at the request of Cardinal Gibbons. Their first U. S. convent opened at West Baltimore and Payson Streets the foll…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYB_the-canton-library_Baltimore-MD.html
This branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library was built in and opened for use in 1886, one of four given to the city of Baltimore by Enoch Pratt, a great philanthropist of that era. It is the only one of that group still in use as a library. Pratt w…