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    May 17, 2013 |Column| Baltimore Sun
  1. Roaming the neighborhoods around Pimlico

    Roaming the streets that encircle <a href="http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/pimlico/home/na/pimlico-race-course-baltimore-venue">Pimlico Race Course</a>, I discovered so many places that I had trouble going back to the same locale twice. Outer Northwest Baltimore is a fascinating, at times geographically bewildering, place.
    Roaming the streets that encircle Pimlico Race Course, I discovered so many places that I had trouble going back to the same locale twice. Outer Northwest Baltimore is a fascinating, at times geographically bewildering, place. When the Maryland Jockey...

    Tags: Druid Hill, Building Material, Reisterstown Road, Transportation, The Jockey Club Incorporated

  2. May 15, 2013 |Story| Patuxent Homestead
  3. Stories people tell about the old B&O station [Aberdeen]

    Last week we asked our readers to tell us some of their stories and memories of the old B&O railroad station on West Bel Air Avenue in Aberdeen. Replies have come from old and young. Some are second-hand stories remembered from parents, fellow workers and...

    Tags: Transportation

  4. Apr 29, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  5. Charles T. Mahan Jr., railroad historian

    Charles T. Mahan Jr., who spent 75 years painstakingly documenting the Maryland &amp; Pennsylvania Railroad &#8212; better known as the Ma &amp; Pa &#8212; that zig-zagged across Maryland from Baltimore to York, Pa., died Friday of kidney failure at Oak Crest Village. He was 88.
    Charles T. Mahan Jr., who spent 75 years painstakingly documenting the Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad — better known as the Ma & Pa — that zig-zagged across Maryland from Baltimore to York, Pa., died Friday of kidney failure at Oak Crest...

    Tags: Transportation, Parkville, Towson, Baltimore County

  6. Apr 15, 2013 |Story| Patuxent Homestead
  7. Reenactors drudge up Laurel's rugged Civil War past

    Nowadays, the "bink" of metal softball bats from the softball diamond is about the loudest noise heard near American Legion Post 60 in Laurel.
    Nowadays, the "bink" of metal softball bats from the softball diamond is about the loudest noise heard near American Legion Post 60 in Laurel. But it wasn't always that way. Around 150 years ago, it was commonplace for residents to hear the "boom"...

    Tags: Museums, Battle of Antietam, Transportation, American Legion, Library of Congress

  8. Apr 5, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  9. Decoy Carver and B&O Signalman Remembered

    How we do value B&O Railroad memorabilia at the Aberdeen Room Museum? The rich history connected to that railroad and station in Aberdeen is so valuable when we trace the development of the community. When Shirley Graves called and asked if we would be...

    Tags: Museums, Havre de Grace, Transportation, World War I (1914-1918), Cecil County

  10. Mar 31, 2013 |Story| Patuxent Homestead
  11. Summer of '57 ties Westminster man to Pennsylvania Railroad

    Westminster resident Jack Norris had a long, full 50-year career as a business owner in the sales industry.
    Westminster resident Jack Norris had a long, full 50-year career as a business owner in the sales industry. He is the father of two and grandfather of five. But when he talks about what's closest to his heart, you quickly realize that nothing has ever...

    Tags: Trinity College, Transportation, Cumberland (Allegany, Maryland), Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)

  12. Mar 27, 2013 |Story| Patuxent Homestead
  13. Daffodil Days again in bloom at Whipps Cemetery Garden [Mostly Main Street]

    The sixth annual Daffodil Days celebration at Whipps Cemetery Garden is coming up on Saturday, March 30, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The garden is at 3651 St. John's Lane.
    The sixth annual Daffodil Days celebration at Whipps Cemetery Garden is coming up on Saturday, March 30, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The garden is at 3651 St. John's Lane. The event features a special sale of daffodils, hyacinths, tulips and bluebells....

    Tags: Museums, Transportation, Ellicott City, Museum Dioramas, Painting

  14. Mar 26, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  15. Honoring Harriet Tubman

    President Barack Obama's designation Monday of a new national monument to Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery on a Dorchester County plantation in 1849, then helped guide scores of other slaves to freedom in the North during the decade before the Civil War, honors a small and unprepossessing African-American woman who played an outsized role in American history.
    President Barack Obama's designation Monday of a new national monument to Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery on a Dorchester County plantation in 1849, then helped guide scores of other slaves to freedom in the North during the decade before the Civil...

    Tags: Feminism, Transportation, Human Rights, Dorchester County, Harriet Tubman

  16. Mar 13, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  17. Transit-oriented development concept proposed for Penn Station

    Homes, offices and shops would sprout around Baltimore's Penn Station under a preliminary plan developed for Amtrak for the midtown site.
    Homes, offices and shops would sprout around Baltimore's Penn Station under a preliminary plan developed for Amtrak for the midtown site. The national passenger railroad tapped Beatty Development, the Baltimore-based developer responsible for Harbor...

    Tags: Amtrak, Transportation, Metro Centre at Owings Mills, Maryland Area Regional Commuter Rail, Harbor East

  18. Mar 12, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  19. Herbert C. Forrester Jr., CSX official

    Herbert Christian Forrester Jr., a retired railroad vice president, died of coronary artery disease Thursday at Mays Chapel Ridge Assisted Living. The former Cockeysville resident was 88.
    Herbert Christian Forrester Jr., a retired railroad vice president, died of coronary artery disease Thursday at Mays Chapel Ridge Assisted Living. The former Cockeysville resident was 88. Born in Baltimore and raised in Windsor Hills, he was the son of...

    Tags: University of Baltimore, Hunt Valley, Roman Catholicism, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, St. Joseph Medical Center

  20. Mar 9, 2013 |Story| Reuters
  21. Harriet Tubman park to be on Maryland land she worked as a slave

    Abolitionist Harriet Tubman's struggle to help roughly 70 slaves escape to freedom using the Underground Railroad was remembered on Saturday at the groundbreaking of a Maryland state park in her honor.
    Abolitionist Harriet Tubman's struggle to help roughly 70 slaves escape to freedom using the Underground Railroad was remembered on Saturday at the groundbreaking of a Maryland state park in her honor. An escaped slave herself, Tubman toiled in bondage...

    Tags: Gardens and Parks, Transportation, Martin O'Malley, Dorchester County, Tourism and Leisure

  22. Mar 9, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  23. Family searching for answers in man's killing in Southwest Baltimore

    The family of a 28-year-old man found fatally stabbed Friday behind a railroad car in Southwest Baltimore said they're struggling to understand why someone would take his life. LaConte Mitchell, who worked security at Spring Grove Hospital Center, had...

    Tags: Murder

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