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  2. Old Towne Inn - Wikipedia

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    The Olde Towne Inn (“O.T.I”) is a restaurant located in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, USA, previously known as the Judges Chambers. Since 2006 the restaurant has been owned by chef and restaurateur, Donnell Long, an African American and Washington, DC native. [1]

  3. List of African-American neighborhoods - Wikipedia

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    The largest African-American community is in Atlanta, Georgia; followed by Washington, DC; Houston, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; [1] [circular reference] and Detroit, Michigan. [2] About 80 percent of the city population is African-American. A quarter of Metro Detroit (Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties) are African-American.

  4. Fairmount Heights Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Fairmount Heights Historic District encompasses an area of 144 acres (58 ha) in the historic heart of Fairmount Heights, Maryland. The area is notable as one of the first planned African-American communities in the Washington, D.C., area. Predominantly residential in character, most of its housing stock was built between 1900 and 1960 ...

  5. National Register of Historic Places listings in Anne Arundel ...

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    Built c. 1880, purchased in the 1940s by an African American Masonic lodge (which was founded in 1865 by a group of African American civilian employees of the U.S. Naval Academy), and renovated for use as a lodge meeting hall. 104: U.S. Coast Guard Yard Curtis Bay: U.S. Coast Guard Yard Curtis Bay: August 5, 1983 : Off Maryland Route 173

  6. Park Heights, Baltimore - Wikipedia

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    Park Heights follows a classic pattern of many older American urban neighborhoods. Initially it was central to Baltimore's growing economy. Early in the 19th century, for example, Reisterstown Road served as a major route for transporting wheat and corn from farms northwest of the city to the port, where it was shipped down the Chesapeake Bay to the West Indies and Europe.

  7. African Americans in Maryland - Wikipedia

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    A year after the Civil War ended, Matthew Henson was born on August 8, 1866, to freeborn African American sharecroppers in Charles County, Maryland, and he was believed to be great-grandnephew of Josiah Henson. This famed African American explored the Arctic with Admiral Peary for two decades.

  8. Greektown, Baltimore - Wikipedia

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    As of 2010, Greektown is about 50.9% white, 22% Hispanic, 17.8% African American, 6.3% Asian, and about 3% all other. A thriving self-contained residential and business community consisting of single family town houses, Greektown is noted for its many restaurants, authentic Greek coffee houses, bakeries and small businesses of many types. It is ...

  9. Upton, Baltimore - Wikipedia

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    At the turn of the 20th century, Upton was one of the most affluent African American neighborhoods in the United States. The Pennsylvania Avenue commuter rail station on the Baltimore and Potomac Rail Road was built in 1884. By the 1920s, Upton was home to most educated African-American property owners in Baltimore.