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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4E1_the-first-unitarian-church-of-baltimore_Baltimore-MD.html
In 1817, when Baltimore Town boasted 60,000 inhabitants and Mount Vernon Place was still a forest, a group of leading citizens met in the home of Henry Payson "to form a religious society and build a church for Christians who are Unitarian and che…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4BP_babes-dream_Baltimore-MD.html
George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Baltimorean. Feb. 6, 1895 - Aug. 16, 1948.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4BM_sailors-union-church_Baltimore-MD.html
In July 1846, a battered and storm-tossed hulk, the William Penn, was moored at the pier at Light Street wharf across from what is now the McCormick building. A ship chandler, a rigger and other local merchants with interests in the shipping indus…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4BK_b-nai-israel-synagogue_Baltimore-MD.html
The B'nai Israel Synagogue, erected in 1876, is the longest actively-used synagoue in Baltimore. It was built by Congregation Chizuk Amuno ("Strengthening of the Faith"), whose members had seceded from the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation in 1870 to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4BI_lloyd-street-synagogue_Baltimore-MD.html
The Lloyd Street Synagogue, dedicated in 1845, is the first synagogue erected in Maryland and the third oldest surviving synagogue in the United States. A simple, elegant building in the popular Greek Revival style, it was designed for the Baltimo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4BH_mckim-free-school_Baltimore-MD.html
Before Baltimore's public school system opened in 1829, education was the concern of charitable and religious organizations. An early leader in the education movement was the McKim Free School, established through a bequest of Quaker merchant John…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4BF_orpheus_Baltimore-MD.html
The heroic bronze figure in front of you is not, as many suppose, a likeness of Francis Scott Key. The statue represents Orpheus, the artful poet, musician, and singer of Greek Mythology.
In 1914 Congress appropriated funds for a monument at Fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4AX_burial-place-of-twenty-nine-confederate-soldiers_Baltimore-MD.html
Erected by the United Statesto mark the burial place oftwenty-nine Confederate soldierswho died at Fort McHenry, Maryland,while prisoners of war,and whose remains were there buried,but subsequently removed to this section,where the individual grav…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4AU_to-the-memory-of-the-unknown-dead_Baltimore-MD.html
Erected by the Women's Relief CorpsAuxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic.
[small plaque]Department of MO. W.R.C.Monument CommitteeRuth A. GrahamFlorence J. FinkSallie A. MooreMary E. WrightClara A. AlfordMary J. Kirby
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4AO_alex-brown-investment-banking-company_Baltimore-MD.html
On this site in 1900 was constructed the banking headquarters for the Alex Brown Investment Banking Company, America's oldest banking house in continuous operation.
This building survived the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 with evidence of that e…