Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
J. Thomas Scharf (1874), The chronicles of Baltimore: being a complete history of "Baltimore town" and Baltimore city from the earliest period to the present time, Baltimore: Turnbull Bros., OCLC 11971847, OL 13489724M "Baltimore" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (9th ed.). 1878. pp. 298– 299. Published in the 20th c. "Baltimore" .
Baltimore [a] 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 US city. [15] Baltimore was designated as an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland [b] in 1851. Baltimore is the most populous independent city in the United States.
In Central Maryland, sustained winds of 30-40 mph and 3-5 inches of rain fell. Gusts of up to 65 mph toppled many power lines. Most of the damage was from falling trees, which blocked roads, crushed power lines, and toppled onto houses. Power was out for over 200,000 people in Maryland; however, by Sunday, most power was restored. [93]
The Maryland General Assembly established the Town of Baltimore in 1729. Unlike many other towns established around that time, Baltimore was more than just existence on paper. German immigrants began to settle along the Chesapeake Bay by 1723, living in the Baltimore area. The General Assembly enlarged Baltimore Town in 1745 and incorporated ...
On March 26, 2024, at 1:28 a.m. EDT (05:28 UTC), the main spans and the three nearest northeast approach spans of the Francis Scott Key Bridge across the Patapsco River in the Baltimore metropolitan area of Maryland, United States, collapsed after the container ship Dali struck one of its piers.
Soil collected from George Armwood's lynching in Maryland sits inside a glass jar next to 37 others within an exhibit in the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore.
The city was separated from the adjacent County by the provisions of the new second Maryland Constitution of 1851 and became an independent city with the same status as the other 22 (later 23) counties of Maryland. Then the seat for Baltimore County was moved after a referendum to Towsontown (later Towson), a few miles north of Baltimore, with ...
Time zone: UTC-5 • Summer : UTC-4 (EDT) ZIP code: 21215. Area code: 410, 443, and 667: Arlington is a neighborhood in Northwest Baltimore, Maryland.