The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) is one of the oldest railroads in the United States, with an original line from the port of Baltimore, Maryland west to the Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia and Parkersburg, West Virginia. It is now part of the CSX network, and includes the oldest operational railroad bridge in the world. The B&O also coincidentally included the Leiper Railroad, the first permanent railroad in the U.S. The railroad's former shops in Baltimore, including the Mt. Clare roundhouse, now hous ...

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In 1831 a law was passed in Maryland, enabling the B&O to build its Washington Branch, connecting Baltimore to the national capital of Washington, D.C. This opened in 1835, and later served as a terminus for the Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad to Annapolis. Mount Airy Frederick The Frederick Branch was built as part of the original line, opening on December 1, 1831. The continuation of the m ...

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In the 1880s the Wisconsin Central Railroad built its own line south to Chicago due to disputes with the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, over which it ran to Chicago. The line was completed to Forest Park, west of Chicago, in early 1886. On July 19, 1886 trains began running over the new Chicago and Great Western Railroad, which had just built its own line to Chicago, junctioning with the WCRR at Forest Park. The C&GW began construction on the current Grand Central Station in 1888. On November 5, 1889 the Chicag ...

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When the B&O started to run to Philadelphia, it did so via the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad. Connecting trackage in Baltimore ran from the B&O's Mount Clare terminal east along Pratt Street and East Falls Avenue to the PW&B's President Street terminal. From there the PW&B ran east on Fleet Street and Boston Street before leaving onto its own right-of-way. In 1857 the new Camden Street terminal was built, about eight blocks east of Mount Clare, on a spur off the B&O's Locust Point Branch. Surface ...

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Baltimore is an independent city located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of 2005, the population was 641,943, up from 636,251 in 2004. The population of the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, as of 2000, was 7.6 million, up from 6.7 million in 1990. Baltimore is the largest city in Maryland, named after the founding proprietor of the Maryland Colony, Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore. The city is a major U.S. seaport. Because there is also a Baltimore County surrounding (but not including) the city, it is sometimes ...

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The Philadelphia and Delaware County Rail-Road Company was chartered in Pennsylvania on April 2, 1831, changing its name on March 14, 1836 to the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company. Chapter 296 of the 1831 Session Laws of Maryland, passed March 14, 1832, chartered the Delaware and Maryland Rail Road Company to build from Port Deposit or any other point on the Susquehanna River to the Delaware state line. The Wilmington and Susquehanna Rail Road Company was chartered January 18, 1832 in ...

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Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad - History, Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad - Branches

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Baron Baltimore is a defunct title in the Peerage of Ireland. The barony was created in 1625 and became extinct following the death of the sixth baron in 1771. The title was held by several members of the Calvert family who were the proprietors of the Province of Avalon in Newfoundland and the Province of Maryland, later the U.S. state of Maryland. In the context of United States history, the name Lord Baltimore usually refers to Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore after whom the city of Baltimore, Maryland is named. His younger broth ...

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Ashtabula is a city located in Ashtabula County, Ohio, and the center of the Ashtabula Micropolitan Statistical Area (as defined by the United States Census Bureau in 2003). A major location on the Underground Railroad in the middle 19th century, the city today is major coal port on Lake Erie at the mouth of the Ashtabula River northeast of Cleveland. The name Ashtabula means "river of many fish" in the Iroquois language. As of the 2 ...

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A Catechism of Christian Doctrine, Prepared and Enjoined by Order of the Third Council of Baltimore (or, simply, the Baltimore Catechism) was the de facto standard Catholic school text in the United States from 1885 to the 1960s. Baltimore Catechism - History. In the nineteenth century, repeated efforts had been made in the United States towards an arrangement by which a uniform textbook of Christian Doctrine might be used by all Catholics. As early as 1829, the bishops assembled in th ...

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The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (AAR reporting mark ACL) was an American railroad that existed between 1898 and July 1, 1967, when it merged with the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, its long-time rival, to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. The company was headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida (Wilmington, North Carolina before 1961). After several more mergers and consolidations, the former ACL is now part of CSX Transportation, also headquartered in Jacksonville. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad - History. Including:

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In the Battle of Baltimore, one of the turning points in the War of 1812, American forces warded off a combined British land and sea invasion of the busy port city of Baltimore. The American defense of Baltimore's Fort McHenry in this battle inspired Francis Scott Key to compose the poem which would become the national anthem of the United States, The Star Spangled Banner. Battle of Baltimore - Background. In August of 1814 the British army had overrun confused American defenders at the Battle of Bladensbur ...

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The Baltimore Sun is the major newspaper in Baltimore, Maryland, with a daily press run of about 430,000 copies, and a Sunday run of 540,000 copies. It was founded on May 17, 1837, by printer Arunah Shepherdson Abell. The Abell family owned the paper through 1910, when the Black family had a controlling interest. The paper was sold in 1986 to the Times Mirror Company, the same week the Baltimore News-American announced it would fold. Though now there is only a morning issue, for many years there were two distinct edition ...

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The B & O was America's first railroad line. It began operations in 1830.

(Source: Madrid Waddington High School )

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The Baltimore-Washington Parkway (B-W Parkway) is a federally owned freeway, operated by the National Park Service, running parallel to Interstate 95 approximately five miles to its east between Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC. Signs at its termini dedicate it to Gladys Noon Spellman. It connects in DC with U.S. Highway 50 (New York Avenue), with a connection to District of Columbia Route 295, a feeder route to I-295, via a short section of Maryland State Highway 201, just north of the border. At its north end, in the middle of ...

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Coppin State University Frostburg State University Salisbury University Towson University University of Baltimore University of Maryland, Baltimore University of Maryland Baltimore County University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland Eastern Shore University of Maryland University College Universities at Shady Grove Center for Environmental Science University of Maryland, Baltimore, (also known as UMB, and occasionally as < ...

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Chapter 158 of the 1830 Session Laws of Maryland, passed February 22, 1831, authorized the B&O to build a branch from their main line within 8 miles (13 km) of Baltimore to Washington. As this line would take much business from the parallel turnpikes, especially the Washington and Baltimore Turnpike, the law specifically allowed those companies to subscribe to the stock of the railroad. The line opened on August 25, 1835, split ...

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Washington Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, Washington Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road - History, Washington Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road - Station listing

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The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad created a single 4-4-4 in 1934, rebuilding a 4-4-2 "Atlantic" into a solitary class J-1, named Lady Baltimore. Along with the single class V-2 4-6-4 Lord Baltimore, it was built for new lightweight passenger trains, in the Lady Baltimore's case the Abraham Lincoln on the Chicago and Alton Railroad, a wholly-owned subsidary of the B&O. Despite the Alton's flat territory and straight track, the locomotive did not do well. It was returned to the B&O and was again modified at th ...

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4-4-4, 4-4-4 - Bavarian S2/6, 4-4-4 - Reading C1a, 4-4-4 - Baltimore & Ohio No. 1 Lady Baltimore, 4-4-4 - Canadian Pacific Jubilee

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On April 19, the Union's Sixth Massachusetts Regiment was travelling south to Washington, D.C. through Baltimore. At that time, there was no direct rail connection between the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad's President Street Station and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Camden Station due to ordinances prohibiting the use of steam locomotives in the inner city. Rail cars that transfered between the two ...

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Baltimore riot of 1861, Baltimore riot of 1861 - Causes of the riot, Baltimore riot of 1861 - April 19 1861, Baltimore riot of 1861 - Aftermath

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