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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PB_a-sense-of-sanctuary_Baltimore-MD.html
From 1909 to 1951, in the days of an unwritten "Jim Crow" segregation policy, the Parks Commission of Baltimore maintained "separate but equal" facilities. Druid Hill became the sole park city-wide where the African-American community felt welcome…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PA_in-memory-of-harvey-j-burns-jr_Baltimore-MD.html
A Black pioneer in Baltimore tennis.
Teacher - promoter - mentorof youth seeking entryinto the tennis circuit.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4P8_william-wallace_Baltimore-MD.html
"Guardian of Scotland"Scottish Wars of IndependencePresented to the people of Baltimore byWilliam Wallace SpenceNovember 30, 1893Re-dedicated on August 22, 1993by theSt. Andrew's Society of Baltimore"It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4P7_eli-siegel_Baltimore-MD.html
Great American Poet, PhilosopherFounder of Aesthetic RealismQuiet and green was the grass of the field,The sky was whole in brightness,And O, a bird was flying, high, there in the sky,So gently, so carelessly and fairly.
There are millions of m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4P6_druid-hill_Baltimore-MD.html
Within a year of the April 1861 Baltimore Riots, the first of several U.S. Army camps and fortifications began encircling Druid Hill, and important location high above the city and adjacent to the Northern Central Railroad. The 114th and 150th New…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OH_st-francis-xavier-catholic-church_Baltimore-MD.html
On July 9, 1793, at 3:00 P.M. there arrived in the port of Baltimore at Fells Point a ship, The Guineaman, carrying blacks, slave and free, from Santo Domingo. They were French speaking and Catholic. They formed a Eucharistic community that would …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OD_first-baptist-church_Baltimore-MD.html
First Baptist Church, the oldest Black Baptist church in Maryland, was founded amidst turmoil in 1836, five years after Nat Turner's Rebellion in Virginia. Alarmed at the Rebellion, Maryland and other slave states passed laws restricting the movem…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OC_st-francis-xavier-church_Baltimore-MD.html
Dedicated on February 21, 1864, St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church was the first black parish in the U.S. The church originated in the 1790s due to the efforts of the Sulpician Fathers and the Oblate Sisters of Providence to provide education and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OB_frederick-douglass_Baltimore-MD.html
"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are those who want crops without plowing up the ground - they want rain without thunder and lightning." - Frederick Douglass
Born in February, 1818, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4M7_boundary-lines-of-baltimore-town_Baltimore-MD.html
[This marker portrays the subject in a pictorial manner. It shows the major streets of Baltimore in 1729. The six stars on the map represent the locations of this and five other identical markers.]