B & O Railroad Museum
901 West Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD 21223
(410) 752-2490
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum is dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of American railroading through the history and legacy of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, the Western Maryland Railway, and the regional railroads of the mid-Atlantic. In 1999, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum joined the Smithsonian Institution's Affiliates Program becoming the first railroad museum and the first museum in Maryland to hold that distinction.
The museum is a prominent landmark in its working class neighborhood in southwest Baltimore, in the Mid-Atlantic region, and in the nation, ranking as one of the preeminent sites in railroad history. It is in the unique position of occupying the exact physical location where railroading was first established in America in 1827 and where the B&O Railroad Company grew and developed into a major national force. Every facet of the museum is thus imbued with its heritage, made more tangible everyday by the visitors who tell stories of their railroad experience, and share their historic photographs and artifacts. The museum is committed to contributing to the community on a local and national level just as it did in the past.
Hollins Market
911 Lemmon St
Baltimore, MD
Hollins Market, the city's oldest market structure in use, was established in fledgling west Baltimore in 1835.
The market takes its name from the Hollins Family who owned large tracts of land west of Baltimore
H. L. Mencken House
1524 Hollins Street
Baltimore, MD 21223
A National Historic Landmark, this brick, Italianate row house was the residence of noted Baltimore Sun journalist and author Henry Louis Mencken from 1883 until his death in 1956.
Carroll Park
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Carroll Park, Baltimore's third country landscape park (after Druid Hill and Patterson Parks), is significant for its association with the early development of the park system in Baltimore. Located in southwest Baltimore, Carroll Park is 117 acres. Originally part of the Mount Clare estate of Charles Carroll, Barrister, the park includes one of the oldest of two Federal style mansions still standing in Baltimore City. (Homewood House on Johns Hopkins University Campus being the other.) In the 30 years prior to becoming a park, the area surrounding Mt. Clare was leased from the Carrolls and became Southwestern Schuetzen Park--a private recreation area used by German immigrants in Baltimore.
A pastoral setting with curvilinear carriageways and pedestrian walks was planted with trees, shrubs, and flower beds and included a picturesque Victorian conservatory. Today, Carroll Park boasts an assortment of athletic fields-- home to the Carroll Park Little League-a neighborhood playground, a spectacular outdoor skating facility as well as a 9-hole golf course. Carroll Park also hosts the German festival each year, which offers music, performing arts, food, and crafts.
Carroll Park Golf Course2100 Washington Blvd
Baltimore, MD 21230
Phone: (410)685-8344Fax
This is a great twelve hole course for beginner's because the fairways are wide open and the large greens are medium speed. There are no water hazards in play, but there are a few sand bunkers.
Mount Clare Mansion
1500 Washington Boulevard
Baltimore, MD 21230
(410) 837-3262
Mount Clare is the oldest extant colonial building in Baltimore. It was built in 1760 by Charles Carroll, a barrister (lawyer), and distant relative of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Carroll Mansion
800 East Lombard Street
The Carroll Mansion at 800 East Lombard Street was built in 1812 and is the finest townhouse of that period existing in Baltimore, truly illustrating the elegant lifestyle of the early 19th century. Five bays wide, three and a half stories high, and entirelúy constructed of brick, it is one of the few late Federal structures remaining in Baltimore and is an important example of residential architecture of that era. The counting house or business room is on the first floor, as it was common practice to conduct business at home at the time of original construction. The principle living quarters are located on the upper floors.
The house was purchased by Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence, as a gift for his daughter Mary and her husband Charles Caton. Carroll was an important and popular favorite son of Baltimore and Maryland's wealthiest citizen at the time. He spent the last fourteen winters of his life in the house on Lombard Street and died there at the age of 95. His body lay in state in the house and was interred in the Chapel at Doughorean Manor, his Country Estate.
For the next hundred years the mansion underwent many uses and by the late 1800's the house was a tenement. In 1914, the house was purchased by the city, and in 1917 it was the first public vocational school. In 1940, it opened as the first city recreational center. By 1956, it was vacant and demolition was proposed. Due to negative public reaction, Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin initiated a renovation effort in 1963. Today the building serves as a museum depicting life as it was during Charles Carroll's lifetime. The Carroll Mansion was designated a Baltimore City Landmark on January 11, 1971.
Gwynns Falls Trail
800 Wyman Park Drive, 010
Baltimore, MD 21211
410-448-5663 x135
The Gwynns Falls Trail is a unique urban hiking and biking trail providing access to a scenic and historic greenway stream valley in Baltimore City managed by a partnership among public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and community representatives organized as the Gwynns Falls Trail Council. The Council is very pleased that the Trail has been designated as part of the East Coast Greenway and the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network.