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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y4M_generating-electricity-from-the-sun_Baltimore-MD.html
On the wall above this sign, on the roofs of the Science Center and the parking to your right are solar panels that contain many photovoltaic (PV) cells. These PV cells convert light from the sun directly into electricity.
The PV cells are made…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y4L_carroll-hunting-lodge_Baltimore-MD.html
This stone house, commonly known as the "Carroll Hunting Lodge," is one of the oldest in the Mount Washington area, dating from about 1790. It stands on what was once a vast tract owned by Charles Carroll of Carrollton. Carroll was on th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y4K_ruscombe_Baltimore-MD.html
"Ruscombe" (meaning brown hill) was built in 1866 by James Wood Tyson, the younger brother of Jesse Tyson who built the nearby Cylburn Mansion. By the 1860's, the Tyson dynasty, long one of Baltimore's pre-eminent Quaker and industrialis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y1F_maryland-stadium-complex-at-ostend-and-warner-streets-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
Today Camden Yards is synonymous with sports. It is the site of two stadiums that are the home of the National Football League's Baltimore Ravens and the Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles. North of the stadiums is the Sports Legends Museum…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y1B_baltimores-part-in-saving-the-bay-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
The promenade you are standing on lies within a very special space called the Critical Area. The Critical Area is the 1000 foot strip (about three city blocks) bordering the entire Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, including the Patapsco River w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y1A_the-olmsted-legacy-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
Think green and thank the Olmsteds as you walk along the Gwynns Falls Trail. If it weren't for the Olmsted Brothers Landscape Architects firm, the City of Baltimore would not be blessed with most of its large multipurpose parks, neighborhood playg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y19_port-of-baltimore-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
Baltimore was a late bloomer in colonial America. Chartered in 1729, the port grew rapidly after the Revolutionary War to become by 1800 the new nation's third largest city. The harbor proved ideal for shipping grain from Central Maryland and flou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y16_united-states-merchant-seamen-memorial-a-war-memorial_Baltimore-MD.html
To the memory of the United States Merchant Seamen who lost their lives serving the United States of America. Donations: National Maritime Union of America, International Organization of Masters Mates and Pilots, Seafarers International Union of N…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y14_the-black-shipbuilders-of-the-chesapeake-bay-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
A national heritage site, the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park celebrates African-American who worked on Baltimore's maritime trades in the 1800s. It also tells the stories of Frederick Douglass and Isaac Myers, who worked as chandlers…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y12_baltimores-maritime-heritage-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
The world's only authentic sailing reproduction of an 1812-era Baltimore Clipper. Pride of Baltimore II is more than a spectacular ship—-it is a living, working symbol of Baltimore's maritime heritage. With her sharply raked masts, abundance…