BALTIMORE
America’s Largest Independent City
Motto: “The Greatest City in America”
Baltimore was founded in 1729
City of Baltimore has several nicknames: “Charm City” “B’more”. In 1835, when bad investments led to the Baltimore bank riot. It was these riots that led to the city being nicknamed “Mobtown”.
Baltimore acquired its moniker “The Monumental City” after an 1827 visit to Baltimore by President John Quincy Adams. At an evening function, Adams gave the following toast: “Baltimore: the Monumental City—May the days of her safety be as prosperous and happy, as the days of her dangers have been trying and triumphant.”
Baltimore was designated an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851, and today is the largest independent city in the United States. Baltimore pioneered the use of gas lighting in 1816. Baltimore is the location of Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University, the city’s top two employers.
In 1870, Isaac Myers of Baltimore, worked as both a Customs Service agent and as a postal service agent under President Ulysses S. Grant’s Postmaster General John Creswell. He was the first African American U.S. Postal Inspector, the law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service, formed in 1775. He served from 1870 until 1879.
In 1892, Frederick Douglass constructed rental housing for Blacks, now known as Douglass Place, in the Fells Point area of Baltimore. The complex still exists at 516-524 South Dallas Street, Baltimore, Maryland. On September 15, 1983 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the oldest railroad in the United States, was built in 1830. Baltimore has more public statues and monuments per capita than any other city in the country. Nearly one third of the city’s buildings (over 65,000) are designated as historic in the National Register, which is more than any other U.S. city.
Baltimore was home to Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993), an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991.
Born in Baltimore, Marshall graduated from the Howard University School of Law in 1933. He established a private legal practice in Baltimore before founding the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where he served as executive director.
Marshall was the U.S. Supreme Court’s first African American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he successfully argued several cases before the Supreme Court, including Brown v. Board of Education which said racial segregation in public education is a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution.
The case was argued December 9, 1952, reargued December 8, 1953 and decided on May 17, 1954. It paved the way for integration and was a major victory of the civil rights movement.
The City of Baltimore embraces cultural equality, diversity, inclusion, equity and has many historic business-friendly neighborhoods. Baltimore is rolling out the true “Welcome to Baltimore” welcome mat to new entrepreneurs, new startups, business founders, new residents and more value-added businesses.
In the spirit of many enterprising early settlers, local Baltimore entrepreneurs have created business opportunities in Maryland. With the help of local business leaders, the demand for startup ventures and the need for more goods and services has ignited the spirit of local business ownership in the City of Baltimore and surrounding communities.
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