One of the largest cities (3rd after Phila.?) in the nation (around 1830), situated on one of America's great natural harbors, at the mouth of the Patapsco River, and near the head of Chesapeake Bay.
Many streams suitable for mills helped build it up as a manufacturing center, while its harbor, and productive back country gave it a strong mercantile interest.
Periodicals out of Baltimore: The American Aurora, Niles Weekly Register, Genius of Universal Emancipation.
Home of the famous luxurious Barnum's Hotel.
Sources: Whitman, The Price of Freedom (1997), with small but useful maps, p34, 38 and illustrations of MD. Chem. Works, Fardy and Auld's shipyard, and a downtown scene on pp44, 59, 146.
A town or village about 20 miles northwest of Baltimore. The phrase"Charles Carroll of Carrollton" crops up repeatedly in Jackson Era literature, referring to the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence, who lived there.
In Kent County on the eastern shore, and situated on the Chester River.
Birthplace and permanent home of Ezekiel Forman Chambers, senator from 1826-34, and the home of Washington College, from which he graduated.
The terminus, at one very early point, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
In Frederick County. "One mile south of the Mason-Dixon line, ... on the main road between Baltimore and Pittsburgh. ... economy based on its function as a stopping place on the road west and ... as a center of American Catholicism, with a seminary and a convent". (Otter, p161). It is also about 10 miles southeast of Gettysburg, PA.
See map, as of 1823 (Otter, p172)
County seat(?) of Frederick County.
At the head of Chesapeake Bay, and mouth of the Susquehanna River.
Sacked by Cochrane in 1814 (which was witnessed by Jared Sparks).
Most of the state looks roughly like a horseshoe wrapped around this 100-mile long by 20 mile wide bay.
On the northern part of the eastern shore -- looks like mostly an estuary.
Originates at Cooperstown NY, and Otsego Lake, makes a long path across Pennsylvania, where it becomes a major river, runs through Maryland in its last 10-15 miles, and empties into Chesapeake Bay.