Five Minutes of Baltimore History

The Montgomery Ward Building

Did you know that the Montgomery Ward building, next to Carroll Park, is the largest office building in Baltimore? And a train used to run right through it!

Friends Burial Ground

Contained on a little less than three acres across from Clifton Park in northeast Baltimore, the Friends Burial Ground tells the stories of generations Baltimore's Quaker families across their 300 years of rich history in our city.

Chromium Pioneer Isaac Tyson Jr.

Quaker merchant Isaac Tyson Jr. established the company that became Allied Chemical in 1828, mining chromium ore and supplying chrome pigment.

The National Road

If you have ever walked along Lombard Street near Eutaw Street, you have walked along the National Road!

Oyster Wars

For about 100 years, from the 1860s to 1959, the Chesapeake Bay was like the Wild West in what was called the Oyster Wars.