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unusual facts about Baltimore City



Joseph T. Ferraracci

Joseph T. Ferraracci was appointed to the position of State Senator for District 8, which covers portions of Baltimore County and Baltimore City, by former Maryland Governor Parris Glendening when John R. Schneider died.


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Baltimore City District Courthouses

The newest of the Baltimore City District Courthouses is the John R. Hargrove, Sr. Building, located at 700 E. Patapsco Avenue in southern Baltimore City.

Baltimore Green Construction

The company also built the Herring Run Watershed Center, the first LEED-NC building in Baltimore City.

Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.

Keiffer J. Mitchell, Jr. was a Baltimore City Councilman and currently serves in the Maryland House of Delegates from the 44th district.

Community Greens

Maryland Delegate Peter A. Hammen sponsored House Bill 1533 to amend the Baltimore City Charter, allowing the City to close alleyways and lease them to interested parties.

John Gunby

Judge J. Harry Covington, address before the Eastern Shore Society of Baltimore City Circa 1939

Lansdowne, Maryland

The road starts at Halethorpe Farms Road in the Halethorpe area and proceeds east across I-695, then crosses the Baltimore (city) line after passing Lansdowne Road/Daisy Avenue to Patapsco Avenue, ending at US-1/Washington Boulevard.

Mary Pat Clarke

In the council, she forged alliances with her black colleagues, such as the one with Kweisi Mfume resulting in a Baltimore City mandate for smaller class sizes in the 1980s.

Maryland Transit Administration

This service travels from a corporate, hotel, and shopping complex in Baltimore County’s Hunt Valley, through the suburbs north of Baltimore and northern Baltimore City and into the heart of downtown Baltimore's shopping, sightseeing, dining, and entertainment districts, past the harbor and through southern Baltimore City and finally to BWI Marshall Airport and Cromwell Station/Glen Burnie in Anne Arundel County.

Old East Baltimore Historic District

It is a mainly residential area of Baltimore City that grew up northward from the original mid-18th century settlement east of the Jones Falls, known as Jones Town, or Old Town.

Oldfields School

The school's campus is situated in a section of the northern suburbs of Baltimore City and is located within walking distance of the Gunpowder River and the Northern Central Railroad Trail.

Robert W. Curran

A member of a prominent Maryland political family, Curran is the son of J. Joseph Curran, Sr., Baltimore City Councilman from 1953 through 1977, a brother to former Maryland attorney general J. Joseph Curran, Jr., brother to a former city councilman, Mike Curran.

Sheila Dixon trial

Per the Baltimore city charter, City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake succeeded her.

Shoe incident

Sheila Dixon, in 1991 Dixon waved her shoe at colleagues on the Baltimore City Council

The Perry Bible Fellowship

PBF was once updated weekly on Sundays to correspond with its "Biblical" title. According to the official website, it appeared in 21 newspapers, five magazines and five school papers. These included the Baltimore City Paper Philadelphia City Paper, New York Press, The Chicago Reader, the Metro Times, The Guardian, The Portland Mercury, City Newspaper (in Rochester, NY), the Ottawa Xpress, Buffalo Beast and Black & White.

William Paca

In Maryland, three elementary schools are named for him: one is in Landover, one is in Baltimore city (#83) and the other in his home town of Abingdon.