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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y11_pride-of-baltimore-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
The Pride of Baltimore II is a reconstruction of an early 19th century Baltimore Clipper. Her mission is to promote historical maritime education, foster economic development and tourism, and represent the people of Maryland in every port she visi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y0Z_a-history-of-firsts-in-baltimore-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
From its founding in 1729, Baltimore's proximity to the Chesapeake Bay was the engine that drove commerce, trade and industry. The most inland port on the eastern seaboard, Baltimore boomed as a leading city, center of industrial innovation and tr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XZT_cistern-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XZO_brewers-park-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
On this site in 1787, Thomas Peters built the original brewery that he sold to Edward Johnson (Mayor of Baltimore, 1808-1814, 1822). It was during Johnson's ownership of the brewery, and while serving as Mayor of the City of Baltimore in 1813, tha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XZN_discover-little-italy-a-taste-of-the-past-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
Baltimore's vibrant and diverse neighborhoods evolved to accommodate a constant influx of newcomers searching for opportunity. Between 1830 and 1917, more than two million immigrants landed in Baltimore, which was second only to New York as a port…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XZA_acquiring-fame-mount-vernon-celebrities-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
In 1903, the Belvedere Hotel became the crowning architectural achievement in the neighborhood. Its signature thirty-five-foot mansard roof has become the symbol for upper Mount Vernon. In the late 1970s, the building was rehabilitated into condom…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XZ9_small-brick-building-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
A two-story wing possibly a kitchen, extended off the back of the mansion. Activities in an early nineteenth-century kitchen and kitchen yard included cooking for the entire household, drawing water, heating water for laundry and personal use, iro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XYV_remington-wyman-world-war-ii-memorial-a-war-memorial_Baltimore-MD.html
To the men and women of this community whose duty and devotion with their services in World War II were not given in vain.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XYT_goucher-hall-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
The Woman's College of Baltimore was founded in 1884, when Reverend John Franklin Goucher, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his wife, Mary C. Fisher, offered land and $150,000 to establish a college for women.
The first class of 48…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XYS_st-frances-academy-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
More than thirty years before the Civil War, when blacks and women were generally viewed as property, Father James Joubert and Elizabeth Lange founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence—a religious order of black women dedicated to educating t…