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Once Baltimore's most prestigious cemetery, Westminster Burying Ground was the final resting place for many prominent Baltimoreans, including some 25 from the War of 1812. Notable burials include: General Samuel Smith, commander of American forces…
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After 10 harrowing days aboard ship and witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry, Francis Scott Key spent his first night ashore at the Indian Queen Tavern, September 16-17, 1814. The inn operated at this site until the 1830s.
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Erected circa 1844 by the Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Sold in 1847 to the First Presbyterian Church (now at the corner of Madison and Park). In 1850, assigned to the African American members of the church, who renamed it Madison Street Presbyterian C…
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This property has beenplaced on theNational Registerof Historic Placesby the United StatesDepartment of the Interior
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Our nation never had more at risk than it did in September 1781. The American Revolutionary War—the War for Independence—had raged for nearly six years. More than 4,000 American and French troops, allied in their fight against the Brit…
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The first national strike began July 16, 1877, with Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and Baltimore Maryland. It spread across the nation halting rail traffic and closing factories in reaction to widespread worker …
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The Garrett Jacobs Mansion is an architectural treasure that provides an historic window to Baltimore's 19th century elegance. The mansion combines the work of two of America's most distinguished architects: Stanford White and John Russell Pope. T…
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"Steam's finest hour" was one railroad writer's summation of the superb locomotives built on the eve of the diesel era—-and this sophisticated brute was one of the reasons why. An excellent example of "superpower" design, it was capable of t…
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You are standing on the site of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Mount Clare Shops, a large industrial complex critical to maintaining every aspect of the railroad's daily operations. Because of their strategic importance, the shops were among th…
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King Gambrinus originally stood in a niche above the door at John Frederick Wiessner and Sons' Baltimore brewery. It is the earliest surviving zinc sculpture of this popular icon of the brewing industry in the United States.In the second half of t…