Baltimore
Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. The city is home to some of the earliest National Register Historic Districts in the nation, including Fell’s Point, Federal Hill, and Mount Vernon. Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University are the city’s top two employers. Baltimore and its surrounding region are home to the headquarters of a number of major organizations and government agencies.
About Baltimore in brief
Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. The city is home to some of the earliest National Register Historic Districts in the nation, including Fell’s Point, Federal Hill, and Mount Vernon. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the oldest railroad in the United States, was built in 1830 and cemented Baltimore’s status as a major transportation hub. Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University are the city’s top two employers. Baltimore and its surrounding region are home to the headquarters of a number of major organizations and government agencies, including the NAACP, ABET, the National Federation of the Blind, Catholic Relief Services, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the Social Security Administration. Baltimore’s Inner Harbor was once the second leading port of entry for immigrants to the US. Baltimore has more public statues and monuments per capita than any other city. Nearly one third of the city’s buildings are designated as historic in the National Register, which is more than any others. Baltimore is an anglicization of the Irish name Baile an Tí Mhóir, meaning “town of the big house.’’ The Baltimore area had been inhabited by Native Americans since at least the 10th millennium BC, when Paleo-Indians first settled in the region. During the Late Woodland period, the archaeological culture known as the Potomac Creek complex resided in the area from Baltimore south to the Rappahannock River in present-day Virginia. In the early 1600s, the Baltimore vicinity was used as hunting grounds by the Susquehannock Native Americans.
This Iroquian-speaking people lived in the upper tributaries of the Chesapeake River valley. In 1706, British colonists established the Port of Baltimore to support the tobacco trade, and established the Town of Baltimore in 1729. The Battle of Baltimore was a pivotal engagement during the War of 1812, culminating in the bombardment of Fort McHenry, during which Francis Scott Key wrote a poem that would become \”The Star-Spangled Banner\”, which was eventually designated as the American national anthem in 1931. In 1851, the Constitution of Maryland designated Baltimore as the largest independent city in America. As of 2017, the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was estimated to be just under 2. 802 million, making it the 21st largest metropolitan area in the country. Baltimore is located about 40 miles northeast of Washington, D. C., making it a principal city in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area, the fourth-largest CSA in thenation, with a calculated 2018 population of 9,797,063. The city was the site of some of the earliest violence associated with the American Civil War. After a decline in major manufacturing, heavy industry, and restructuring of the rail industry, Baltimore has shifted to a service-oriented economy. It is named after The 2nd Baron Baltimore, an Anglo-Irish member of the. Irish House of Lords and founding proprietor of the Province of Maryland, who owned the Calvert family, Barons Baltimore, owned in County Longford.
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