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5 unusual facts about Baltimore County


Baltimore municipal strike of 1974

The city itself, losing many tax-paying residents to the suburbs, was already suffering from budget shortfalls and beginning to shift toward privatization of services.

Bugle Field

The site is in use today as the headquarters and local manufacturing plant of Rockland Industries, the first major corporation on record in Baltimore County, Maryland.

Cone sisters

Claribel Cone, A Remarkable Woman, April 8, 1911, The Baltimore Evening Sun, interview available on microfilm at the library at Morgan State University, and University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and University of Maryland, College Park.

History of violence against LGBT people in the United States

May 29, 2008 – Eighteen-year-old Steven Parrish, a member of the 92 Family Swans subgroup of the Bloods, was murdered by Steven T. Hollis III and Juan L. Flythe on orders from gang leader Timothy Rawlings Jr., in Baltimore County, Maryland after they found "gay messages" on his cell phone.

Murder of Stephanie Roper

The primary killer was convicted in Baltimore County while his co-defendant pled guilty to the same charges in Anne Arundel County.


Carver Center for Arts and Technology

Douglass High was attended by the cream of the City's black student elite and a "who's who" among famous graduates and the later Paul Laurence Dunbar Community High School, (#414) founded 1918/1925/1937 at 1400 Orleans Street, near North Central Avenue in East Baltimore, was also available to Baltimore County students and several numbers attended in the years before the 1950's integration.

This breaks the general policy of BCoPS of not naming schools with the first names of people rather opting towards the previous example of using only last names such as in the example of Franklin High School (the County and BCoPS oldest public high school and a descendent of the historic old private Franklin Academy) in the Reisterstown area in the northwest Baltimore County or the current Carver Center.

Dan K. Morhaim

He has had numerous other activities, including: Medical director, Region III, for the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services System (MIEMSS) from 1982–1989; Fire Surgeon for Baltimore County since 1982; member of the Maryland-Kuwait Health Care Task Force (to Kuwait & Saudi Arabia, April 1991); physician at Indian Health Service Hospital (Navajo), Chinle, Arizona from 1991–92.

Flags of counties of the United States

Several Maryland county flags, such as Calvert County, Baltimore County, and Anne Arundel County, incorporate the coat of arms of the Calvert family in their designs, due to the design being featured in the Maryland state flag, and the Calvert family's prominence in Maryland history.

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

It is located along Eastern Avenue near Bayview Boulevard, east of the outer city neighborhoods of Highlandtown and Greektown and west of the Baltimore County large suburban area of Essex and Middle River and northwest of the large suburban area of Dundalk.

Jones Falls

The Jones Falls begins as a small stream in Baltimore County near Garrison at the intersection of Caves and Garrison Road (39.41771° -76.75750°).

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.

William P. Bolton

Born near Whiteford, Maryland, Bolton attended the public schools and St. Francis Parochial School in Baltimore County, Maryland.

William Paca

William Paca was born in Abingdon, in what was then Baltimore County (Abingdon was later included in Harford County when that county was formed from Baltimore County in 1773), in the British colony of Maryland.


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Aaron Wheeler

Wheeler attended Patapsco High School in Dundalk, Maryland, who he led to the 2005 Baltimore County championship title, and played three years of college soccer at Lenoir-Rhyne University before transferring to Towson University prior to his senior year.

Aigburth Vale

Hubner sold the agricultural land to the Towson Nurseries who subdivided portions of it for sale to the Baltimore County Board of Education in 1943 and 1946 for use as the site for Towson High School and its surrounding campus.

Baltimore County Police Department

Baltimore County Executive, James T. Smith, Jr. nominated Johnson for the position of Police Chief upon the exit of Sheridan.

Baltimore County Public Library

:To Satisfy Demand: a Study Plan for Public Library Service in Baltimore County, Baltimore County Public Library's first strategic plan, became the model for the Public Library Association/American Library Association's Planning Process for Public Libraries.

Baltimore Highlands

Baltimore Highlands, Maryland, a census-designated place in southern Baltimore County

Bull Run Invitational Cross Country Meet

The race is run on Hereford High School’s rural campus located in the northern most section of Baltimore County, Parkton, Maryland.

Edgemere

Edgemere, Maryland, an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland

Fort McHenry

A drama beginning the famous Supreme Court case involving the night arrest in Baltimore County and imprisonment here of John Merryman and the upholding of his demand for a writ of habeas corpus for release by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney occurred at the gates between Court and Federal Marshals and the commander of Union troops occupying the Fort under orders from President Abraham Lincoln in 1861.

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.

Milford Mill

Milford Mill Road, a major road in Baltimore County that runs from Pikesville to Milford Mill

Milford Mill, Maryland, a census-designated place in Baltimore County near Pikesville and Randallstown

Perry Hall

Perry Hall Mansion in Baltimore County, Maryland, named after the above

Perry Hall, Maryland

Its greatest accomplishment came on September 8, 1963, when Baltimore County Executive Spiro Agnew and other officials dedicated the new Perry Hall library on Belair Road.

Robert Zirkin

Born in Davis, California, Zirkin's family moved to Maryland while he was a child and Zirkin attended Baltimore County Public Schools, including Pikesville High School.

Tyrone Delano Gilliam, Jr.

Judge John Fader of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County found Gilliam guilty of first-degree murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon, use of a handgun in the commission of a felony and kidnapping.