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Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. With a total population of 585,708 at the 2020 census, it is the 30th-most populous U.S. city. Baltimore was designated as an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851. Baltimore is the most populous independent city in the United States. As of 2020^[update], the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was 2.84 million, the 20th-largest metropolitan area in the country. The city is also part of the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area, which had a 2020 population of 9.97 million, the third-largest in the country. Though Baltimore is not located within or under the administrative jurisdiction of any county in the state, it forms part of the central Maryland region, together with the surrounding county that shares its name.

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. 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. During the American Revolutionary War, the Second Continental Congress moved its deliberations to Henry Fite House on West Baltimore Street from December 1776 to February 1777 prior to the fall of Philadelphia to British troops, which permitted Baltimore to serve briefly as the nation's capital before it returned to Philadelphia in March 1777. The Battle of Baltimore was pivotal 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", designated as the national anthem in 1931. During the Pratt Street Riot of 1861, the city was the site of some of the earliest violence associated with the American Civil War. (Full article...)

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Mount Clare Station and roundhouse

The B&O Railroad Museum is a museum and historic railway station exhibiting historic railroad equipment in Baltimore, Maryland. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) company originally opened the museum on July 4, 1953, with the name of the Baltimore & Ohio Transportation Museum. It has been called one of the most significant collections of railroad treasures in the world and has the largest collection of 19th-century locomotives in the U.S. The museum is located in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's old Mount Clare Station and adjacent roundhouse, and retains 40 acres of the B&O's sprawling Mount Clare Shops site, which is where, in 1829, the B&O began America's first railroad and is the oldest railroad manufacturing complex in the United States.

Mount Clare is considered to be a birthplace of American railroading, as the site of the first regular railroad passenger service in the U.S., beginning on May 22, 1830. It was also to this site that the first telegraph message, "What hath God wrought?" was sent on May 24, 1844, from Washington, D.C., using Samuel Morse's electric telegraph. (Full article...)

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Levinson in 2009

Barry Lee Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Levinson won the Academy Award for Best Director for Rain Man (1988). His other best-known works are Diner (1982), The Natural (1984), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Bugsy (1991), and Wag the Dog (1997). In 2021, he co-executive produced the Hulu miniseries Dopesick and directed the first two episodes. (Full article...)

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... that the writer of "Crabs for Christmas" joked that it contributed to Baltimore's population decline?
... that one of the items on display at the Baltimore Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts was George Washington's shaving brush?
... that Darryl De Sousa created a Baltimore Police Department unit to give lie detector tests to other units?
... that Charles J. M. Gwinn was the first state's attorney of Baltimore elected under the Maryland Constitution of 1851, which he had helped to draft?

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Image 1John E. Hurst Building, site of the fire's outbreak (from Great Baltimore Fire)
Image 2East Midway (from List of Baltimore neighborhoods)
Image 3Some of the more upscale rowhouses in Baltimore, like these brightly painted homes in Charles Village, have complete porches instead of stoops (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 4Same view in 1906, 2 years after the fire (from Great Baltimore Fire)
Image 5Great Baltimore Fire of 1904, looking West from East Pratt and North Gay Streets (from Great Baltimore Fire)
Image 6Baltimore railroad strike of 1877 (from History of Baltimore)
Image 7An illustration of the aftermath of the Great Baltimore Fire in February 1904 (from Great Baltimore Fire)
Image 8Child labor at J.S. Farrand Packing Company in Baltimore, 1909. Photo by Lewis Hine. (from History of Baltimore)
Image 9View of Baltimore from Chapel Hill, by Francis Guy, 1802-03 (Brooklyn Museum) (from History of Baltimore)
Image 10Baltimore Street Map, 1892 (from History of Baltimore)
Image 11View of Baltimore by William Henry Bartlett (1809–1854) (from History of Baltimore)
Image 12Marble steps, East Fort Avenue, Locust Point, August 2014 (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 13The Baltimore riot of 1861 (from History of Baltimore)
Image 14Map of Chesapeake Bay area by John Senex, 1719, with Baltimore County labeled near Maryland's border with Pennsylvania. (from History of Baltimore)
Image 15West Baltimore (from List of Baltimore neighborhoods)
Image 16Marylanders steam blue crabs, usually in water, beer and Old Bay Seasoning. (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 17Mount Clare Mansion, known today as the Mount Clare Museum House, is the oldest Colonial-era structure in Baltimore. (from History of Baltimore)
Image 18Worker assembling an aircraft at the Glenn L. Martin plant in Baltimore (from History of Baltimore)
Image 19Baltimore & Ohio Railroad engine and passenger car from the 1830s. (from History of Baltimore)
Image 20Simple row houses like these in Locust Point make up much of Baltimore's housing stock. (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 21Sharp Street Church was established 1787, the existing building having been erected in 1898 (from History of Baltimore)
Image 22Storefront of establishment selling Lake Trout in Baltimore (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 23Francis Kenrick, the sixth Archbishop of Baltimore (1851–1863). (from History of Baltimore)
Image 24Blue crabs (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 25South Baltimore (from List of Baltimore neighborhoods)
Image 26An 1864 map of Baltimore (from History of Baltimore)
Image 27Baltimore Street Map, 1838 (from History of Baltimore)

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