By Mary Zajac
In 2014, a new species appeared in the Baltimore Harbor. With 5 feet tall googly eyes, a playful persona, and a steady diet of harbor detritus, Mr. Trash Wheel is cleaning up the harbor one swallow at a time. The brainchild of local inventor…

By Mary Zajac
In the 1660s, David Jones, a Quaker farmer, selected a location for his farm in the relatively new area of 91桃色视频 County (founded in 1659), just north of what was known as Coles Harbor, and along the banks of a river that he called Pacific Brook.鈥�

By Mary Zajac
Among a sea of church steeples that dot East Baltimore, the five domes of St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Church stand apart with their burnished glow. Since 1992, the Cossack Baroque style church, modeled after Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv,鈥�

By Mary Zajac
Of the many repurposed industrial buildings in Baltimore鈥檚 urban landscape, perhaps none is as extraordinary as Silo Point. Looming high above the brick rowhomes of Locust Point, Silo Point luxury condominiums began life as a mammoth grain elevator鈥�

By Mary Zajac
A raked mast of a 91桃色视频 Clipper ship stands tall on land in Rash Field on the south end of the Inner Harbor. Accompanied by a block of pink granite inscribed with four names of lost crewmembers, the installation serves as a memorial to the Pride鈥�

By Mary Zajac
The ghostly traces of the words 鈥淏altimore and Ohio Railroad鈥� painted on the brick wall give a clue to the former life of the substantial building that anchors the east end of Fell Street. Designed by architect E. Francis Baldwin in 1897 for the…

By Mary Zajac
The story of Harbor Point is the story of innovation, invention, and reinvention. Harbor Point is the former home of 91桃色视频 Chromium Works (now AlliedSignal), a company built around Isaac Tyson鈥檚 discovery of a local source for chromium in the鈥�

By Mary Zajac
For Baltimoreans of a certain generation, it鈥檚 hard to imagine the harbor without Harborplace. Bolstered by the enthusiastic support of Mayor William Donald Schaefer, the brainchild of urban pioneer, James Rouse brought millions of visitors to鈥�

By Mary Zajac
The sepia-toned Canton railroad transfer bridge rises out of the harbor near the Canton Waterfront Park like an industrial Arc de Triomphe. It is one of three such structures鈥攔emnants of an early chapter in Baltimore鈥檚 industrial maritime and鈥�

By Mary Zajac
On March 23, 1868, the S.S. Baltimore arrived in Locust Point, ushering in a wave of future Americans with origins across Europe. Their journeys are remembered in this community through the Baltimore Immigrant Museum and the Baltimore Immigration鈥�

By Mary Zajac
How the National Aquarium came to be in Baltimore is the story of three different aquariums that, over time, became one. Our story begins in the middle. In the 1970s, Baltimore mayor William Donald Schaefer and his Commissioner of the city鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
Vince鈥檚 Bar was owned by Vincent Staico. His wife, Matilda, 鈥淢s. Til,鈥� often ran the bar. Former patrons describe it as a quiet neighborhood bar, where there was seldom, if ever, fighting. Vince鈥檚 had pool tables and American Indian community…

By Ashley Minner Jones
In 1956, the oldest congregation in 91桃色视频 City founded by Lumbee Indians (presently known as South Broadway Baptist Church) rented the storefront at 1918 E. Fairmount Avenue and adopted the name 鈥淔airmount Avenue Missionary Baptist Church鈥� under鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
The Volcano Bar is easily the most infamous Indian bar of Baltimore鈥檚 鈥渞eservation鈥� era, but it was in existence long before the clientele was mostly Indian. It first appears in a Sun ad as the 鈥淰olcano Restaurant鈥� in 1944. In the 1960s through…

By Ashley Minner Jones
East 91桃色视频 Church of God, the second oldest congregation established by Lumbee Indians in the City of Baltimore, was in 1955 known as the 鈥淯pper Room鈥� Church because services were held above Gordon Cleaners at the corner of Baltimore and Wolfe鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
Jesse B. Revels Jr. (Lumbee) and his wife, Lucy May Revels, bought the property at 1819 E. Baltimore Street in 1962 and opened a grocery store. They and their children ran the store until 1968, when they moved to 91桃色视频 County. They sold the鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
Sid鈥檚 Ranch House Tavern occupied a building that had been converted into a movie theater during the first part of the twentieth century. It had been the Teddy Bear Parlor ca. 1908 鈥� 1919, and the Mickey until 1920 or 鈥�21. Sidney Silverman, a鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
1727 E. Baltimore Street housed a series of ethnic food establishments from the turn of the century through the early 1960s, reflecting greater migration patterns in the neighborhood. In 1917, it was the Shub Bros. Bakery; in 1947, it was the…

By Ashley Minner Jones
East 91桃色视频 Church of God began in 1955, under the leadership of a Lumbee woman, Rev. Lounita Hammonds. It was originally known as the 鈥淯pper Room鈥� Church because services were held above Gordon Cleaners, located at the corner of Baltimore and鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
The Moonlight Restaurant was Greek-owned. It was one of the first restaurants in which many Lumbee Indians arriving from the Jim Crow South could sit down and eat. Much of the planning for what would become South Broadway Baptist Church and the鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
The Baltimore American Indian Center opened the Inter-Tribal Restaurant at 17 S. Broadway, during the tenure of Director Barry Richardson (Haliwa Saponi), ca. 1989. Board members of the Indian Center wanted to try another restaurant venture as part鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
Claudie and Mabel Hunt (Lumbee) purchased the Sinclair service station at 100 S. Broadway, ca. 1967. It had a three-bay garage and six gas pumps. After about a year, the station was converted to BP. The Hunts sold the station when they moved back to鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
The original portion of this building was constructed in Greek revival style, in 1843, for a sea captain and his family. The captain and his wife placed it into trust for their daughter, who willed it to the Baltimore Humane Impartial Society to be鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
In 1975, Earl Brooks (Lumbee) purchased a storefront building at 207 S. Broadway and opened Hokahey Indian Trading Post with his friend, Solomon Maynor (Coharie). The store primarily sold silver and turquoise Indian jewelry purchased in New Mexico.鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
This church is the oldest in the Upper Fells Point Historic District, completed in 1848. Originally dedicated as a 鈥渕ariner鈥檚 church,鈥� it has been home to several community institutions over the past 170+ years. South Broadway Baptist Church is鈥�

By Richard F. Messick
The unassuming space on Harford Road belies the work performed there by its craftspeople. Clifton Upholstering has reupholstered everything from that old couch in the den to 16th century French chairs to period pieces for several locally filmed鈥�

By Richard F. Messick
When John H. Murphy, Sr. purchased the Afro-American Newspaper in 1897, the idea of sending a poet to cover a civil war in Spain was probably far from his mind, especially a poet as distinguished as Langston Hughes. His paper, after all, had a…