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Baltimore's wealthy not only created the rich architectural setting of Mount Vernon Place, but pioneered modern philanthropy. With the founding of the George Peabody Institute in 1857, George Peabody influenced many other wealthy Baltimoreans incl…
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It's amazing how much has happened here since Captain John Smith traveled up the Patapsco while exploring the Chesapeake Bay in 1608. Since its founding in 1729, Baltimore has been the scene of some of American history's great moments, among them …
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After crushing the Americans at Bladensburg and invading the Nation's Capital, the British targeted Baltimore. If they could capture the city—-the third largest in the United States and a commercial and shipbuilding hub—-they could lik…
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Incited by anti-war editorials in the Federal Republican, an angry mob destroyed the newspaper's Gay Street office in June 1812. Rioters returned when editor Alexander Contee Hanson resumed publication from the Charles Street site on July 27.
Ha…
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Presented by
The United Spanish
War Veterans
of Maryland
1925
On the Muzzle:
Captured by the U.S.S. Dixie
Manned By the First Naval Battalion M.N.G.
Fort Ciamanera, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Aug. 22, 1899
Presented to Mayor E. Clay Timanus…
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Known as Lookout Hill, this high ground served as observation post, military camp, and gun battery. Although unfinished when the British arrived, the battery helped fend off a naval flanking attack September 14, 1814. Had the enemy maneuver succee…
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Three gun batteries hugging the upper shore of Ferry Branch guarded the west flank of Fort McHenry. They included the makeshift earthworks of Fort Babcock, the incomplete Fort Covington, and a temporary redoubt at Ferry Point.
During the bombardm…
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In 1813, Mary Pickersgill's flag-making business was commissioned to sew a garrison flag and a smaller storm flag for Fort McHenry, Mary's mother, daughter, nieces, and African American servants helped complete the task in about seven weeks.
On S…
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Daniel Wells, 19 and Henry McComas, 18, made history September 12, 1814, when they allegedly killed a British commander Major General Robert Ross. The two sharpshooters fired simultaneously. Both were quickly dead by British soldier.
Considered h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IIN_in-full-glory_Baltimore-MD.html
At home in the city credited with helping to turn the tide for Americans in the War of 1812, the collections of the Maryland Historical Society preserve evidence of the people who live this history. The Center for Maryland History has the nation's…