A history of Baltimore,
since 1729
Postcards, papers and photographs of Baltimore from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The Baltimore area was inhabited by Native Americans since at least the 10th millennium BC, when Paleo-Indians first settled in the region. One Paleo-Indian site and several Archaic period and Woodland period archaeological sites have been identified in Baltimore, including four from the Late Woodland period. In December 2021, several Woodland period Native American artifacts were found in Herring Run Park in northeast Baltimore, dating 5,000 to 9,000 years ago. The finding followed a period of dormancy in Baltimore City archaeological findings which had persisted since the 1980s. During the Late Woodland period, the archaeological culture known as the Potomac Creek complex resided in the area from Baltimore south to the Rappahannock River in present-day Virginia.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Baltimore’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewAlexandroffsky, 1856: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Baltimore, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
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nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.