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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YKW_gwynns-falls-trail_Baltimore-MD.html
From picnic and playground facilities to sports fields and courts, Leon Day Park serves as a gathering place for people of all ages in the Rosemont-Franklintown Road neighborhood. Formerly called Calverton, the area contained mills and slaughterho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XU2_gwynns-falls-park-at-windsor-mill-road_Baltimore-MD.html
The two-mile portion of the trail between here and Trailhead 4 at Leon Day Park is the only section with a gravel surface. The trail follows the route of an early 1800s millrace along the Gwynns Falls that carried water from Dickeyville to power t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XU0_seeing-the-forest-for-the-trees_Baltimore-MD.html
Forests cover almost 12 of the 65 square miles in the Gwynns Falls watershed.
To understand the forest, look for patterns such as tree types, indicator species, species richness, gaps, and evidence of fire.
Stratification is the pattern of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3RH_leon-day-park_Baltimore-MD.html
This park is named for Leon Day, an outstanding player in the Negro Leagues who was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. A resident of southwest Baltimore, Day joined the Baltimore Black Sox in 1934 when African Americans could not play …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3RD_an-old-mill-stream_Baltimore-MD.html
If you were standing here in the early 1800s, you would have been listening to the waterwheel humming away at the Windsor Mill across this bridge. This section of the Gwynns Falls Trail is built over a three-mile millrace that carried water to pow…