Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Baltimore has a fascinating, under-appreciated history. Discover it with Johns Hopkins, Executive Director of Baltimore Heritage baltimoreheritage.org Johns gives tours baltimoreheritage.org/tours and makes weekly videos! youtube.com/@baltimoreheritage1006
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What we covered:
Washington Monument en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument_(Baltimore)
John Eager Howard en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eager_Howard
Mount Vernon Place mountvernonplace.org
Marquis de Lafayette en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marquis_de_Lafayette
Francis Scott Key en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key
Maryland in the Civil War en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_in_the_American_Civil_War
Garrett Jacobs Mansion en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Jacobs_Mansion
Federal Hill en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Hill,_Baltimore
Maryland Federalist (replica ship) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_Federalist
Tribes of Maryland as seen by John Smith whatsupmag.com/downloads/55821/download/mds-first-born4.jpg?cb=cd519500678aaa279cf85fef4647093d&w=1000
Jamestown, Virginia home.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/a-short-history-of-jamestown.htm
Maryland Science Center mdsci.org
Baltimore World Trade Center en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_World_Trade_Center
USS Constellation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constellation_(1797)
Union artillery on Federal Hill mdhistory.org/resources/union-artillery-emplacements-on-federal-hill
National Aquarium aqua.org
American Visionary Art Museum avam.org
Domino Sugar Refinery baltimoremagazine.com/section/businessdevelopment/baltimore-domino-sugar-refinery-celebrates-100-years-on-the-harbor
Fort McHenry nps.gov/fomc/index.htm
War of 1812 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812
Star Spangled Banner | US Army Field Band youtube.com/watch?v=EIODUFpatkQ
Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_collapse
Lexington Market lexingtonmarket.com
Robert & Rosetta sculpture avenuenews.com/news/local/sculpture-aims-to-capture-the-history-of-slavery/article_a8c21399-6c3f-58e1-8526-67e78335bd48.html
City of Brick baltimorehistories.substack.com/p/city-of-bricks-bricks-and-early-baltimore
Fell's Point en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fell%27s_Point,_Baltimore
First Chinese in the U.S. asianamericanbooks.com/newsletter/2023may-article2.html
Alexander Brown en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Brown_(banker)
Frederick Douglass en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
Douglass Myers Maritime Park livingclassrooms.org/programs/fdimmp
Baltimore's Road Wars sobopost.org/2022/12/15/road-wars

0:00 George Washington Monument
1:38 Mount Vernon Place
3:41 Maryland in the Civil War
4:31 Garrett Jacobs Mansion (largest in country)
5:26 Federal Hill & the Federalist
6:43 Native Americans and Jamestown
7:08 Maryland Science Center
7:29 Baltimore World Trade Center
7:46 USS Constellation
8:18 Union artillery on Federal Hill
9:35 National Aquarium
10:15 American Visionary Art Museum
10:41 Domino Sugar Refinery
11:27 Fort McHenry, War of 1812, Star Spangled Banner
13:56 Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse
14:25 Lexington Market
15:54 Street walk
17:30 Slavery at the Market
19:10 Baltimore: City of Brick
19:57 Fell's Point
22:18 First Chinese in the United States
23:43 Alexander Brown (first investment banker)
24:43 Frederick Douglass & Isaac Myers
25:50 Baltimore's 'Road Wars' & Saving Fell's Point