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Baltimore

Baltimore[14] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. With a population of 585,708 at the 2020 census, it is the 30th-most populous city in the United States.[15] Baltimore was designated an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland[a] in 1851, and is currently the most populous independent city in the nation. As of the 2020 census, the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was 2,838,327, the 20th-largest metropolitan area in the country.[16] When combined with the larger Washington metropolitan area, the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area (CSA) has a 2020 U.S. census population of 9,973,383, the third-largest in the country.[16]

This article is about the city in Maryland. For other uses, see Baltimore (disambiguation).

Baltimore

United States

Baltimore

August 8, 1729 (August 8, 1729)

1796–1797

State senators

92.05 sq mi (238.41 km2)

80.95 sq mi (209.65 km2)

11.10 sq mi (28.76 km2)  12.1%

0–480 ft (0–150 m)

585,708

576,498

76th in North America
30th in the United States
1st in Maryland

7,235.43/sq mi (2,793.74/km2)

2,212,038 (US: 20th)

3,377.5/sq mi (1,304.1/km2)

2,844,510 (US: 20th)

Baltimorean[10]

$54.9 billion (2022)

$241.4 billion (2022)

ZIP Codes[13]

2nd, 7th

The land that is present-day Baltimore was used as hunting ground by Paleo-Indians. In the early 1600s, the Susquehannock began to hunt there.[17] People from the Province of Maryland established the Port of Baltimore in 1706 to support the tobacco trade with Europe, and established the Town of Baltimore in 1729.


In the mid-18th century, the first printing press and newspapers were introduced to Baltimore by Nicholas Hasselbach and William Goddard. During the American Revolutionary War, the Second Continental Congress, fleeing Philadelphia prior to the city's fall to British troops, moved their deliberations to Henry Fite House on West Baltimore Street from December 20, 1776, to February 27, 1777, permitting Baltimore to serve briefly as the nation's capital before the capital returned to Independence Hall in Philadelphia on March 5, 1777.


The Battle of Baltimore was a pivotal engagement during the War of 1812, culminating in the failed British bombardment of Fort McHenry, during which Francis Scott Key wrote a poem that would become "The Star-Spangled Banner", which was eventually designated as the American national anthem in 1931.[18] During the Pratt Street Riot of 1861, the city was the site of some of the earliest violence associated with the American Civil War.


The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the nation's oldest railroad, was built in 1830 and cemented Baltimore's status as a major transportation hub, giving producers in the Midwest and Appalachia access to the city's port. Baltimore's Inner Harbor was once the second leading port of entry for immigrants to the United States. In addition, Baltimore was a major manufacturing center.[19] After a decline in major manufacturing, heavy industry, and restructuring of the rail industry, Baltimore has shifted to a service-oriented economy. Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University are the city's top two employers.[20] Baltimore and its surrounding region are home to the headquarters of a number of major organizations and government agencies, including the NAACP, ABET, the National Federation of the Blind, Catholic Relief Services, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, World Relief, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the Social Security Administration. Baltimore is also home to the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball and the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League.


Many of Baltimore's neighborhoods have rich histories. The city is home to some of the earliest National Register Historic Districts in the nation, including Fell's Point, Federal Hill, and Mount Vernon. These were added to the National Register between 1969 and 1971, soon after historic preservation legislation was passed. Baltimore has more public statues and monuments per capita than any other city in the country.[21] Nearly one third of the city's buildings (over 65,000) are designated as historic in the National Register, which is more than any other U.S. city.[22][23] Baltimore has 66 National Register Historic Districts and 33 local historic districts.[22] The historical records of the government of Baltimore are located at the Baltimore City Archives.

The Baltimore Visitor Center at the Inner Harbor

The Baltimore Visitor Center at the Inner Harbor

Fountain near visitor center in Inner Harbor

Fountain near visitor center in Inner Harbor

Sunset views from Inner Harbor

Sunset views from Inner Harbor

Baltimore is the home of the National Aquarium, one of the world's largest aquariums.

Baltimore is the home of the National Aquarium, one of the world's largest aquariums.

Johns Hopkins University

Loyola University Maryland

Maryland Institute College of Art

St. Mary's Seminary and University

Notre Dame of Maryland University

The of Johns Hopkins University

Peabody Institute

39th U.S. vice president under Richard Nixon

Spiro Agnew

jazz pianist and composer

Eubie Blake

former professional basketball player

Muggsy Bogues

actress

Julie Bowen

author and marketing strategist

Christine Michel Carter

author of the Ryanverse book series

Tom Clancy

former U.S. Congressman and civil rights activist

Elijah Cummings

professional boxer and four-time world champion in two weight classes

Gervonta Davis

born Ellen Naomi Cohen, singer and member of the Mamas & the Papas

Cass Elliot

founding president of Johns Hopkins University

Daniel Coit Gilman

stand-up comedian

Stavros Halkias

professional lacrosse player and first black Tewaaraton Award recipient

Kyle Harrison

actor, producer, and businessman

David Hasselhoff

entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and namesake of Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins

U.S. Supreme Court justice

Thurgood Marshall

journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English

H. L. Mencken

serial killer and cannibal

Joe Metheny

rock musician and lead singer of the Cars

Ric Ocasek

Entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist Founded the GoDaddy group of companies

Bob Parsons

swimmer and all-time leader in Olympic medals

Michael Phelps

poet

Edgar Allan Poe

author of etiquette books

Emily Post

actor and musician

Lance Reddick

professional baseball player and Baseball Hall of Fame inductee

Babe Ruth

Duchess of Windsor

Wallis Simpson

actress, singer, and businesswoman

Jada Pinkett Smith

educator, suffragist, and linguist

M. Carey Thomas

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist

Anne Tyler

filmmaker

John Waters

screenwriter, author, public intellectual

D. Watkins

journalist and jazz promoter

Biddy Wood

rock musician

Frank Zappa

Italy (1985)[342]

Genova

Ireland

Ely O'Carroll

Germany (2007)

Bremerhaven

Baltimore has eleven sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International:[339][340]


Baltimore's own Sister City Committees recognize nine of these sister cities, indicated above with a "B" notation.[341]


Three additional sister cities have "emeritus status":[339]

Baltimore Development Corporation

Baltimore in fiction

Baltimore National Heritage Area

(Book on the history of the Appalachian migrants' move into the city in the 20th century)

Bluegrass in Baltimore: The Hard Drivin' Sound and Its Legacy

History of the Germans in Baltimore, Maryland

6 ships

USS Baltimore

Category:Cemeteries in Baltimore

seal 

Baltimore portal

Brooks, Neal A. & Eric G. Rockel (1979). A History of Baltimore County. Towson, Maryland: Friends of the Towson Library.

Crenson, Matthew A. (2017). Baltimore: A Political History. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Dorsey, John, & James D. Dilts (1997). A Guide to Baltimore Architecture. Third Edition. Centreville, Maryland: Tidewater Publishers. (First edition published in 1973.)  0-87033-477-8.

ISBN

Hall, Clayton Coleman (1912). Baltimore: Its History and Its People. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company. .

Vol. 1

Orser, Edward W. (1994). Blockbusting in Baltimore: the Edmonston Village Story. University Press of Kentucky.

(1879). History of Maryland from the Earliest Period to the Present Day. Baltimore: John B. Piet. Vol. 1; Vol. 2; Vol. 3.

Scharf, J. Thomas

Thomas, Isaiah (1874). . Vol. I. New York, B. Franklin.

The history of printing in America, with a biography of printers

Townsend, Camilla (2000). Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America: Guyaquil, Ecuador, and Baltimore, Maryland. University of Texas Press.  0-292-78167-9.

ISBN

(1922). A History of Printing in Colonial Maryland, 1686–1776. Baltimore : Typothetae of Baltimore.

Wroth, Lawrence C.

(1938). The Colonial Printer. Portland, Me., The Southworth-Anthoensen press.

Wroth, Lawrence C.

Holli, Melvin G., and Jones, Peter d'A., eds. Biographical Dictionary of American Mayors, 1820-1980 (Greenwood Press, 1981) short scholarly biographies each of the city's mayors 1820 to 1980. ; see index at pp. 406–411 for list.

online

Malka, Adam (April 2018). (Hardcover). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-3629-0.

The Men of Mobtown; Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation

Official website

Baltimore City Council

Visit Baltimore – official Destination Marketing Organization

Baltimore City Public Schools

Baltimore Development Corporation

historic maps at the Sheridan Libraries.

Baltimore City Maps

April 2005

Papenfuse: Atlases and Maps of Baltimore City and County, 1876–1915 & Block Maps

: Baltimore Demographics, 2015.

The Wall Street Journal