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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HGV_fire-power_Baltimore-MD.html
Bellona Gunpowder Company mills, operating from 1801 to 1856, was located in present-day Robert E. Lee Park along the banks of the Jones Falls. Bellona was one of several Baltimore powder mills and produced explosives used in the defense of Baltim…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EUO_womens-suffrage_Baltimore-MD.html
Before the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920, American women were not guaranteed the right to vote. The National American Woman Suffrage Association organized a large parade in Washington, DC. for March 3, 1913. On February 12, a group of women ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D6H_baltimore-riot-trail_Baltimore-MD.html
(Preface:) On April 19, 1861, Confederate sympathizers attacked the 6th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as it changed trains en route to Washington, which the secessionists hoped to isolate. To learn more about the Baltimore Riot, the city's role …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D5C_baltimore-slave-trade_Baltimore-MD.html
Although the United States banned the Transatlantic Slave Trade in 1808, a domestic trade from the Upper South to the emerging cotton-growing regions of the Deep South thrived until the 1860's. Baltimore-based dealers supplied the trade, operating…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D48_the-revels_Baltimore-MD.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CF7_womens-industrial-exchange_Baltimore-MD.html
This property has beenplaced on theNational Registerof Historic Placesby the United StatesDepartment of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19CK_civil-war-magazine_Baltimore-MD.html
Larger cannon — and more cannon — came to Fort McHenry during the Civil War period. To provide safe storage for the additional gunpowder and ammunition, the Army built this magazine in 1864.
From the inside it doesn't look especiall…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19CE_allegiance-by-force_Baltimore-MD.html
"if there should be an uprising in Baltimore, I shall be compelled to try to put it down; and that gun is the first I shall fire." — Major General John Dix, U.S. Army,1861
At the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln direc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19C9_cistern-and-well_Baltimore-MD.html
Fort McHenry was surrounded by water, but none of it was fit to drink. In the early years, soldiers rowed into Baltimore to fill casks with fresh well water. They also collected rainwater from the barracks' roofs in a cistern located in this corne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19BK_benjamin-banneker_Baltimore-MD.html
1731-1806Scientist
Buried in an unmarked grave near here lies the remains of Benjamin Banneker, distinguished son of Maryland, who was born, lived, and died in this area.