Baltimore

Timonium, MD

Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Marble Track Bed Marble blocks from Cockeysville area quarries were used in 1836 to bed the track for...

Towson, MD

Baltimore County Courthouse Separation of Baltimore City and County effective July 4, 1851.

Towson, MD

Baltimore County Courthouse Separation of Baltimore City and County effective July 4, 1851.

Dundalk (vicinity), MD

Battle Acre September 12, 1814 Here General Stricker's City Brigade inflicted severe losses upon the main body of the British Army.

Catonsville, MD

Banjamin Banneker (1731-1806) The self-educated Negro mathmatician and astronomer was born, lived his entire life and died near here.

Brooklandville, MD

Brooklandwood 1798 Built by Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the Declaration of Independence and Maryland's First U.S. Senator,...

Reisterstown, MD

"Buffalo Soldiers" First Sgt. Augustus Walley a Reisterstown native, awarded the Congressional medal of honor for bravery at Cuchillo...

Catonsville, MD

Castle Thunder A gift from Charles Carroll of Carrolltown, Castle Thunder, the home of Richard and Mary Carroll Caton, stood on this site...

Catonsville, MD

A Civil Rights Milestone On September 10, 1935, Black students Lucille Scott and Margaret Williams were denied admittance to Catonsville...

Dundalk, MD

Commodore Joshua Barney 1759-1818 Born in Baltimore, Barney at an early age moved with his family to a nearby farm on Bear Creek in the...

Ellicott Mills, MD

Ellicott's Mills Established 1772 by the three Ellicott brothers from Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Glyndon, MD

Emory Grove Founded in 1868 for the purpose of promoting the cause of morality and religion by holding camp meetings under the auspices...

Fork, MD

Fork United Methodist Church Oldest Methodist congregation in Maryland worshipping in its original location.

Edgemere, MD

Fort Howard Built here in 1896 to defend Baltimore from possible naval attack.

Curtis Bay, MD

Francis Scott Key Memorial Bridge To the northwest, across the Patapsco, is Fort McHenry, which British naval forces bombarded Sept....

Reisterstown, MD

Oldest High School in Baltimore County Franklin Academy founded January 10, 1820 by an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland.

Owings Mills, MD

Garrison Forest Church (St. Thomas' Parish) A frontier parish church authorized by Act of Assembly 1742 as a "chapel of ease for the...

Glencoe, MD

Gorsuch Tavern At "19 mile stone" on York Road built in 1810 by Capt. Joshua Gorsuch, a shipbuilder.

Glen Arm (vicinity), MD

Gunpowder Copper Works 1804-1883 Levi Hollingsworth built a mill here to roll and fabricate refined blocks of copper that were shipped to...

Chase, MD

Gunpowder River So called as early as 1600 Legend relates that the name originated with an Indian attempt to plant gunpowder in the hope...

Towson, MD

Hampton 1783-1790 Baltimore County Estate of the Ridgely family from 1745 to 1948.

Reisterstown, MD

Hannah More Academy Founded 1832 Oldest Episcopal boarding school for girls in the United States.

Hoffmanville, MD

Hoffman Paper Mills The first paper maker in Maryland was William Hoffman.

Baltimore, MD

The home of Gov. Augustus W. Bradford Which stood on this site was burned July 11, 1864 by Confederate troops "to retaliate the burning...

Riderwood, MD

Hunt's Church A Methodist Society established in 1773.

Fork, MD

Ishmael Day's House When one of Harry Gilmor's Confederate Cavalrymen (on July 11, 1864) pulled down his Union flag, Day shot him and...

Dundalk, MD

Logan Field First commercial aviation facility in Maryland.

Lutherville, MD

Lutherville Historic District National Register of Historic Places U.S. Department of the Interior, 1972 Lutherville, named for Martin...

Long Green, MD

Maj. Gen. Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, C.S.A. Civil engineer, graduated West Point 1822.

Randallstown, MD

Mt. Paran Presbyterian Church and Cemetery Mt. Paran church was incorporated September 18, 1841.

Wards Chapel, MD

New Tavern Built in 1802 by Robert Ward, the tavern served traffic to and from the west.

Ruxton, MD

Nicholas Ruxton Moore 1756-1816 He commanded "Baltimore Light Dragoons" during the Revolution.

Edgemere, MD

North Point September 12, 1814 Following a dawn landing at the tip of North Point, British forces passed here en route to Baltimore.

North Point, MD

North Point Battlefield Where on Sept. 12, 1814 the defenders of Baltimore under Gen. John Stricker met the advancing British army of...

Edgemere, MD

North Point Beach Head At 3 A.M. on Sept. 12, 1814, British began landing troops and supplies here from ships anchored in Old Road Bay.

Timonium, MD

Northampton Furnace Built in 1759 by Charles Ridgely (the elder) of Hampton and two sons.

Relay, MD

Relay Created in 1830 as a change point, or "relay", for horses hauling the first scheduled railroad cars in the U.S. The first rail link...

Brooklandville, MD

Rockland The first inhabitant of this village, dating back to 1706, was Richard Gist, Father of the Revolutionary War hero, Mordecai Gist.

Catonsville, MD

Rolling Road A colonial road built for the purpose of rolling hogsheads of tobacco from the plantations to Elk Ridge Landing for shipment...

Brooklandville, MD

Saters Church 1742 On land granted by the fifth Lord Baltimore, Henry Sater, gentleman planter, founded this first church of Baptists in...

White Marsh, MD

"Scholars Plains" First free school in Baltimore County Although a school was built here as early as 1725, by Act of General Assembly...

Butler, MD

Scott's Quarry Marble from this quarry, located nearby, was used to build the Washington Monument in Baltimore, designed by architect...

Butler, MD

Scotts Quarry Marble from this quarry, located about a mile to the south, was used to build the Washington Monument in Baltimore.

Soldiers Delight Chrome was first discovered in the United States in Baltimore County ca.

Edgemere, MD

Developed by the Pennsylvania Steel Company in 1887-91, the Sparrows Point Steel Plant and Shipyard were purchased by Bethlehem Steel in...

Monkton (vicinity, MD

St. James's My Lady's Manor Established 1750 as a chapel of ease in the parish of St. John's of Joppa.

Kingsville, MD

Saint John's Parish (Gunpowder) Established 1692 The old church here standing was built by Edward Day at his own expense and consecrated...

Upperco, MD

St. Paul's Lutheran Church (LCA) Believed to be the oldest existing Lutheran congregation in Baltimore County.

Pikesville, MD

Sudbrook Park Early romantic suburb designed in 1889 by Frederick Law Olmstead, Sr., father of landscape architecture in America, on 204...

Glen Arm, MD

The Baltimore and Harford Turnpike Company Authorized by the Maryland Legislature in 1816 to open a road from Baltimore City with two...

Phoenix, MD

"The Eagle's Nest" Part of the Valley of Jehosaphat, now Dulany Valley, patented August 10, 1684.

Stevenson, MD

The Garrison Fort Built about 1695 as headquarters for a troop of mounted rangers to patrol paths from the Patapsco to the Susquehanna as...

Towson, MD

Joppa Road Originally an Indian trail used in 1695 by a troop of rangers from the Garrison Fort to keep back the Indians.

Pikesville, MD

The Old Court Road Originally an Indian trail, then used by the rangers from the Garrison Fort to keep back the Indians.

Pikesville, MD

The Old United States Arsenal Built in 1816 after the close of the War of 1812 as an arsenal removed to a point of safety beyond Baltimore.

Kingsville, MD

The Sweathouse Road Called for a branch of that name on which Native Americans practiced a spiritual purification ceremony, still done...

Edgemere (vicinity), MD

Todd's Inheritance (National Register of Historic Places) Thomas Todd settled here from Glouster County, Va.

Garrison, MD

Trentham Named for free school of Trentham, Staffordshire, England, where Rev. Thomas Craddock had taught.

Perry Hall (vicinity), MD

Built for the African American community in 1874 as a school for children in the Loreley area and as home to this "benevolent" society,...

White Marsh, MD

"Whitemarsh" Rochambeau's troops camped here Sept. 11, 1781 where the baggage train and heavy artillery rejoined them.

Overlea, MD

Before the 19th amendment was passed in 1920, American women were not guaranteed the right to vote.