| World / USA / Maryland / Baltimore, 2 km from center | Coordinates: 39°16'47"N 76°36'30"W |
Since the founding of Baltimore, 1729, this hill has been a popular point for viewing the city’s growth. Here 4,000 people feasted 1780, to celebrate the ratification by Maryland of the Federal Constitution and in honor of the new government gave the place its name. An observatory, built here 1795, signalled city merchants of the approach of their vessels, a service which lasted a century. Shipyards have long been located near the hill and it has been mined for clay and sand during the Civil War, Union troops fortified the site and it was made a public park 1880.
www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=2555
Category: historic park landmark
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22 months ago Frank | 0 |
 
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Was a Federal encampent durring the Civil War. Troops stationed there had canons fixed on downtown Baltimore and had orders to levey the town if Maryland seceeded from the union. | ||||
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