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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3SS_carrollton-viaduct_Baltimore-MD.html
The Carrollton Viaduct carried the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad over the Gwynns Falls, its first malor stream crossing as it headed west from its Pratt Street terminus Completed in 1829, the 300-foot stone span is named for Charles Carroll of Carroll…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3RN_early-transportation-routes_Baltimore-MD.html
The Gwynns Falls Trail follows a valley that has served as both a transportation avenue and an obstacle since the days of American Indians and European colonists. Early roads were privately owned turnpikes that charged tolls; they became public hi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3RM_bridging-gwynns-falls_Baltimore-MD.html
The lofty, triple-arched Baltimore Street Bridge was built here in 1932 to provide better access across the Gwynns Falls Valley to the city's rapidly developing west side. Earlier, the Frederick Turnpike crossed farther south on a relatively short…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM35X_ellicott-flour-mills_Baltimore-MD.html
The Ellicott Driveway portion of the Gwynns Falls trail follows the route of a millrace that carried water to a flour-milling complex owned by the Ellicott family. In the 1800s, 26 gristmills along the Gwynns Falls and other on the Jones Falls and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2SM_h-l-mencken-house_Baltimore-MD.html
Henry Louis Mencken was born on Lexington Street on September 12, 1880. His father hoped his eldest son would continue the family cigar manufacturing business, but after his father's death in 1899, Mencken headed straight for the Baltimore Morning…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2QA_rowhouses-a-baltimore-tradition_Baltimore-MD.html
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, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2Q6_gwynns-falls-valley_Baltimore-MD.html
As the Baltimore and Frederick-Town Turnpike twisted and turned westward, it passed one of the centers of early city industry. A three mile long millrace on the Gwynns Falls provided power for over twenty mills that sawed wood, ground flour, wove …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10P_camp-carroll_Baltimore-MD.html
This land was part of a 2,568-acre tract named Georgia Plantation, that Charles Carroll purchased in 1732. By 1760, his son Charles Carroll, a lawyer, had constructed a Georgian summer home, Mount Clare. the Carroll family lived here until 1852. …
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…
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