By Tyler Wilson
Augusta T. Chissell was one of the most influential activists in the women鈥檚 suffrage movement in Maryland. She lived in the red painted row house at the corner of Druid Hill Ave and McMechen St.鈥�

By Francesca Cohen
In almost every kitchen in Baltimore, and maybe Maryland, there is a tiny yellow, blue, and red tin of Old Bay seasoning. It is an essential part of local cuisine. Yet, most people are unaware of the鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
This church is the oldest in the Upper Fells Point Historic District, completed in 1848. Originally dedicated as a 鈥渕ariner鈥檚 church,鈥� it has been home to several community institutions over the past鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
In 1975, Earl Brooks (Lumbee) purchased a storefront building at 207 S. Broadway and opened Hokahey Indian Trading Post with his friend, Solomon Maynor (Coharie). The store primarily sold silver and鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
The original portion of this building was constructed in Greek revival style, in 1843, for a sea captain and his family. The captain and his wife placed it into trust for their daughter, who willed it鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
Claudie and Mabel Hunt (Lumbee) purchased the Sinclair service station at 100 S. Broadway, ca. 1967. It had a three-bay garage and six gas pumps. After about a year, the station was converted to BP.鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
The Baltimore American Indian Center opened the Inter-Tribal Restaurant at 17 S. Broadway, during the tenure of Director Barry Richardson (Haliwa Saponi), ca. 1989. Board members of the Indian Center鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
The Moonlight Restaurant was Greek-owned. It was one of the first restaurants in which many Lumbee Indians arriving from the Jim Crow South could sit down and eat. Much of the planning for what would鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
East Baltimore Church of God began in 1955, under the leadership of a Lumbee woman, Rev. Lounita Hammonds. It was originally known as the 鈥淯pper Room鈥� Church because services were held above Gordon鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
1727 E. Baltimore Street housed a series of ethnic food establishments from the turn of the century through the early 1960s, reflecting greater migration patterns in the neighborhood. In 1917, it was鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
Sid鈥檚 Ranch House Tavern occupied a building that had been converted into a movie theater during the first part of the twentieth century. It had been the Teddy Bear Parlor ca. 1908 鈥� 1919, and the鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
Jesse B. Revels Jr. (Lumbee) and his wife, Lucy May Revels, bought the property at 1819 E. Baltimore Street in 1962 and opened a grocery store. They and their children ran the store until 1968, when鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
East Baltimore Church of God, the second oldest congregation established by Lumbee Indians in the City of Baltimore, was in 1955 known as the 鈥淯pper Room鈥� Church because services were held above鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
The Volcano Bar is easily the most infamous Indian bar of Baltimore鈥檚 鈥渞eservation鈥� era, but it was in existence long before the clientele was mostly Indian. It first appears in a Sun ad as the鈥�

By Ashley Minner Jones
Vince鈥檚 Bar was owned by Vincent Staico. His wife, Matilda, 鈥淢s. Til,鈥� often ran the bar. Former patrons describe it as a quiet neighborhood bar, where there was seldom, if ever, fighting. Vince鈥檚 had鈥�

By Mary Zajac
How the National Aquarium came to be in Baltimore is the story of three different aquariums that, over time, became one. Our story begins in the middle. In the 1970s, Baltimore mayor William鈥�

By Mary Zajac
On March 23, 1868, the S.S. Baltimore arrived in Locust Point, ushering in a wave of future Americans with origins across Europe. Their journeys are remembered in this community through the Baltimore鈥�

By Mary Zajac
The sepia-toned Canton railroad transfer bridge rises out of the harbor near the Canton Waterfront Park like an industrial Arc de Triomphe. It is one of three such structures鈥攔emnants of an early鈥�

By Mary Zajac
For Baltimoreans of a certain generation, it鈥檚 hard to imagine the harbor without Harborplace. Bolstered by the enthusiastic support of Mayor William Donald Schaefer, the brainchild of urban pioneer,鈥�

By Mary Zajac
The story of Harbor Point is the story of innovation, invention, and reinvention. Harbor Point is the former home of Baltimore Chromium Works (now AlliedSignal), a company built around Isaac Tyson鈥檚鈥�

By Mary Zajac
The ghostly traces of the words 鈥淏altimore and Ohio Railroad鈥� painted on the brick wall give a clue to the former life of the substantial building that anchors the east end of Fell Street. Designed by鈥�