RPCV/Baltimore Goes on a Heritage Walk

Name: RPCV/Baltimore Goes on a Heritage Walk
Start: 2025-09-20T09:00:00-05:00
Location: TBD

Schedule

Sat, 20 Sep, 2025 at 09:00 am

UTC-05:00

Location

TBD | Merrillan, WI

Who wants to learn something interesting about our sweet city of Baltimore??? Save the date/ morning of Saturday, September 20th. We will schedule a private tour for our group... so many topic options!
Website: https://baltimoreheritage.org/tours/group-tours/
Examples:
The New Lexington Market & Exploring the Neighborhood Around It: For over 200 years, Lexington Market’s wooden sheds and concrete stalls have been a gathering place for Baltimoreans. And the market is still evolving! In October 2022, the new Lexington Market opened in a brand new building. On this tour we’ll first explore the surrounding neighborhood to discover how Baltimore emerged as a leading industrial and economic city in the 19th century. Immigration, slavery, commerce, and major changes in transportation were all part of the mix here in Baltimore and the country as a whole. And in the 1940s and 1950s, this area was a hub of Civil Rights activism. We’ll end at the new market to see its wonderful public art and, of course, its merchants (new and old).
Green Mount Cemetery: Opened in 1839, Green Mount is an early example of an urban-rural cemetery, that is, a cemetery with a park-like setting located close to the countryside. Green Mount is the final resting place of some of Maryland’s most famous, and infamous, figures including Johns Hopkins, Enoch Pratt, William and Henry Walters, Mary Elizabeth Garrett, Betsy Patterson, A.S. Abell, John H. B. Latrobe, John Wilkes Booth, and Elijah Bond, who patented the Ouija Board!
Feisty Females of Fells Point: Everyone knows that this neighborhood has a rich history, but do you know about the Caribbean immigrant, Mary Lange, who dared to teach children of color out of her home and rose to be the first Black mother-superior in American history? How about the single mom who helped stop the development of an interstate highway through these historic streets? Spoiler–it’s not Barbara Mikulski, but of course we’ll talk about her important work too. And we’ll stop by the former rowhouse of someone else you might know–Billie Holiday. We hope you’ll join us to hear about these fierce women who helped forge Fells Point into the vibrant, distinctive neighborhood it is today.
Baltimore’s Civil Rights Heritage: Baltimore’s diminutive Marble Hill neighborhood gave rise to some of the fundamental pillars of the Civil Rights Movement like Thurgood Marshall, Lillie Carroll Jackson, and Clarence Mitchell. Learn about Baltimore’s significant contribution to the Civil Rights Movement here in this cauldron of intellectual and activist leaders known as Marble Hill.