Author: United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and HarborsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Port of Baltimore, Maryland
Author: United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and HarborsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Freedom's Port
Author: Christopher PhillipsPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252066184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Baltimore's African-American population--nearly 27,000 strong and more than 90 percent free in 1860--was the largest in the nation at that time. Christopher Phillips's Freedom's Port, the first book-length study of an urban black population in the antebellum Upper South, chronicles the growth and development of that community. He shows how it grew from a transient aggregate of individuals, many fresh from slavery, to a strong, overwhelmingly free community less wracked by class and intraracial divisions than were other cities. Almost from the start, Phillips states, Baltimore's African Americans forged their own freedom and actively defended it--in a state that maintained slavery and whose white leadership came to resent the liberties the city's black people had achieved.
The Ports of Baltimore, Md., Washington, D.C. and Alexandria, Va
Author: United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and HarborsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Port of Baltimore, Maryland
Author: Industrial Baltimore
Author: Tom LiebelPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439617325
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Over the course of several centuries, Baltimore evolved from a Colonial-era port city to a thriving and dynamic city of nearly a million people at the conclusion of World War II As the city grew, a wide variety of industries were established. Railroads, ports, manufacturing sites, and public infrastructure, such as power plants, fundamentally transformed large swaths of Baltimore's landscape. However, the second half of the 20th century saw a dramatic and often traumatic restructuring of the city's economy; individual businesses and entire industrial sectors downsized, relocated, or completely collapsed. Today many such areas of Baltimore have changed radically as abandoned manufacturing sites have been demolished or converted to new uses. Images of America: Industrial Baltimore documents a vital component of the city's working past through historic photographs of the people and sites that made the city an essential economic engine of the Industrial Revolution.
The Port of Baltimore, Maryland
Author: United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and HarborsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in Maryland
Author: David ShackelfordPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439642745
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Incorporated in 1827, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was one of America's first railroads, and Maryland was its heart and soul. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's (B&O) creation was a tangible symbol of the Industrial Revolution, representing commerce and progress to towns along its route. Its headquarters and operations, centered in Baltimore, provided years of economic growth for the port city. This book contains images of well-known stations in Maryland, including Ellicott City Station, Gaithersburg Station, Camden Station, and the Mount Clare Shops--a self-contained industrial city, now home to the B&O Railroad Museum. Some stations still exist and are home to small museums or restaurants; others no longer stand, but images of them will remind even the casual historian of a time when railroads were a part of everyday life in America. Take a step back in time and revisit the sites, stations, and trains of the B&O that were once part of everyday life in Maryland and remember the glory of a bygone era.
The Port of Baltimore, Maryland
Author: United States Government Printing OfficePublisher:
ISBN: 9780160321283
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay
Author: Jamie L.H. GoodallPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439669090
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
“An epic history of piracy . . . Goodall explores the role of these legendary rebels and describes the fine line between piracy and privateering.” —WYPR The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy. From the golden age of piracy to Confederate privateers and oyster pirates, the maritime communities of the Chesapeake Bay are intimately tied to a fascinating history of intrigue, plunder and illicit commerce raiding. Author Jamie L.H. Goodall introduces infamous men like Edward “Blackbeard” Teach and “Black Sam” Bellamy, as well as lesser-known local figures like Gus Price and Berkeley Muse, whose tales of piracy are legendary from the harbor of Baltimore to the shores of Cape Charles. “Rather than an unchanging monolith, Goodall creates a narrative filled with dynamic movement and exchange between the characters, setting, conflict, and resolution of her story. Goodall positioned this narrative to be successful on different levels.” —International Social Science Review
The Jewish Community of Baltimore
Author: Lauren R. SilbermanPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738553979
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
When Jews arrived in the mid-1700s, Baltimore was little more than a backwater port with an uncertain future. As the city grew so did its Jewish community, forming its first congregation in 1830 and hiring the first ordained rabbi in America in 1840. Today Baltimore is home to one of the nation's largest and most diverse Jewish communities, with approximately 100,000 Jews living in the metropolitan area. Through photographs and documents drawn primarily from the collection of the Jewish Museum of Maryland, The Jewish Community of Baltimore chronicles this fascinating history. More than 200 historic images portray the progress of Baltimore's Jews from a handful of immigrants starting new lives in a growing port city, to an established network of clergy, businesspeople, educators, philanthropists, and civic leaders. From the family-owned delis on Lombard Street and the grand department stores on Howard Street, to the majestic synagogues on Eutaw Place and the current epicenter of Jewish life on Park Heights Avenue, Jews have left an indelible mark on Baltimore.