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The
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum is also known as the B. & O.
Railroad, and is the museum in Baltimore, Maryland that had been
called the Baltimore and Ohio Transportation Museum when it
opened in 1953; and showcases the historic railroad equipment
used by the railroad and is considered one of the most important
collections of railroad treasures in the world. It houses the
biggest collection of 19th century locomotives in the nation,
and is situated in the old Mount Clare Station and its adjacent
roundhouse that had been part of the railroad's sprawling Mount
Clare Shops site that started in 1829, and is the oldest
railroad manufacturing complex in the country. Mount Clare is
now believed to have been the birthplace of American
railroading, since it was the site of the first regular railroad
passenger service in the United States and started on May 22,
1830. This is also the station that sent the first telegraph
message, "what hath God wrought?" that went to Washington in
1844 using Samuel F. B. Morse's invention that would
revolutionize the way mail and other messages were sent around
the country. The magnificent museum contains collections of 19th
and 20th century relics that pertain to the nation's railroads
and includes 250 pieces of rolling stock, 15,000 relics, four
important 19th century structures that includes the roundhouse,
5000 cubic feet of archival material and a mile of track that is
now considered the most important mile of railroad track in the
country. Today you can ride that track on Wednesday through
Sunday from April to December and on weekends in January and
during 2002, the museum was welcoming 160,000 visitors each
year. The museum and station were made a National Historic
Landmark in 1961, and in 2008, the museum won three awards in
Nickelodeon's Parents' Picks Awards in the categories of: Best
Indoor playspace for little kids, Best Indoor Playspace for Big
Kids and the Best Museum for Little Kids. Michael Gross is the
museum's celebrity spokesman, who has acted on television and in
films. The very first horse-drawn B & O train travelled 13 miles
along the newly constructed track from Mount Clare to Ellicott
Mills, which is now Ellicott City, Maryland, on May 22, 1830 and
it became the first regular railroad passenger service in the
United States. The current Mount Clare station made of red brick
was constructed in 1851, and the roundhouse next to it was
constructed in 1884 and designed by Ephraim Francis Baldwin, and
it was used to service the cars. For the majority of its
existence, the B. & O. was collecting its old locomotives and
other relics from its history merely for public relations
purposes and thus stored in various places, until the railroad
thought it should be housed in a permanent home. The car shop of
the Mount Clare shops was then decided upon and the new museum
would open on July 4, 1953. The museum would outlive its
railroad and had been kept intact by both the Chessie System and
the CSX Transportation, so in 1990, CSX deeded the entire
property and collection to a newly formed nonprofit museum
organization that became affiliated with the Smithsonian
Institute in 1999. The museum has some wonderful exhibits and
these include; both original and copies, some that were produced
by the B. & O. for its centennial "Fair of the Iron Horse" in
1927 and other well known locomotives include; the B. & O. #25,
the William Mason 4-4-0 built in 1856 and used in the movie,
Wild Wild West, the B. & O. #217, built in 1869 at Mount Clare,
a 4-6-0 camelback locomotive based on Ross Winans' design, the
B. & O. #545, the A. J. Cromwell, a 2-8-0 "Consolidation" built
in 1888, the B. & O. #600, a 2-6-0 "Mogul", built in Mount Clare
in 1875 that won the first prize at the 1876 Centennial
Exposition, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway #490, streamlined
"Hudson" a 4-6-4 type, the Chesapeake and Ohio #1604, one of the
two left "Allegheny" class 2-6-6-6 locomotives, Pennsylvania
Railroad #4876, GG1 Electric that isn't shown as of now, and had
crashed into the Washington, DC.'s Union Station in 1953 called
the Federal Express Train wreck and many more that are sure to
grab and hold your attention for many hours.
The
Peale Museum, which is often called the Municipal Museum of
Baltimore, would eventually be housed in the first structure in the
Western Hemisphere to be designed and constructed to become a
museum, housing many beautiful paintings and exhibits of natural
history. The museum was designed by Charles Wilson Peale, however,
it would close in 1997, moving its entire collection to the Maryland
Historical Society and later made a Natural Historic Landmark in
1965. Peale got his inspiration for the museum in 1783, as he was
illustrating mastodon fossils that had belonged to Dr. John Morgan,
and after thinking about the museum's creation, he would open it in
Philadelphia in 1786. Charles would leave the museum and its
operation in the hands of his sons, in 1810, and in 1814, another
museum would be opened on Holliday Street by his son, Rembrandt
Peale, the second son. That museum would be named, "Peale's
Baltimore Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts, housing many outstanding
portraits of famous Americans, with quite a few being painted by the
elder Peale, as well as a complete skeleton that had been discovered
by Charles. The museum was sold in 1830, and the great exhibits
moved to a place on Calvert Street, which would become home to the
city's first city hall, the Number 1 Colored Primary School and
finally rented out to many private businesses. As it grew older, it
would be condemned very often and in sure danger of being demolished
in 1928. As historians and other concerned citizens became more
interested in preserving the old building, a restoration of $90,000,
it was rededicated in 1931 as the Municipal Museum of Baltimore.
During the years of 1978 and 1979, the museum would enjoy a much
needed rejuvenation that helped it reopen in 1981 as the Peale
Museum, and by 1985, it would become part of the city's Life Museum
system. The original museum would begin with some of Peale's
portraits of Revolutionary War heroes and a large amount of
curiosities, although it wouldn't be long before the museum was
housing mineral, ethnographic and animal specimens; as well as
becoming a major repository for the collections of the American
Philosophical Society, that included many fossils that had been
donated by Thomas Jefferson. The main feature of the entire
collection would still be the skeleton of the huge mastodon. By
then, the museum had grown to occupy areas of two large buildings,
with Independence Hall containing three rooms that were called, the
Quadrupled Room that showcased 90 specimens of mammals and the Long
Room housing over 700 bird specimens that were highlighted in
mini-dioramas, many minerals and quite a few portraits by Peale,
4000 insects contained in glass cases and a third room filled with
marvelous marine specimens. The walls of the museum showcase an
excellent collection of portraits of the nation's leaders and
politicians, while the museum continued to collect specimens and
begin housing many Native American relics and fabulous natural
history specimens that had been collected by the members of the
Lewis and Clark expeditions, as well as other government sponsored
expeditions. Although the marvelous structure on North Holliday is
now empty, but the excellent collections are now housed by the
Maryland Historical Society. 
The
Star-Spangled Banner Flag House had been called the Flag House &
Star-Spangled Banner Museum and is located in the Little Italy area
of Baltimore, Maryland that was constructed in 1793 to become the
famous home of Mary Pickersgill, when she arrived in the city in
1806 and from where she would sew the famous Star-Spangled Banner;
that glorious flag that had flown over Fort McHenry during the
summer of 1814, when the British fleet was trying to gain control of
the city in the War of 1812. The museum still has the original
furniture and other antiques of that period along with many personal
belongings of the Pickersgill family. A splendid 12,600 square foot
museum was built beside her house, housing exhibits of the War of
1812 and the Battle of Baltimore. There is a great gift shop with
many period replicas, meeting rooms, exhibit galleries, a tearoom
and orientation theater. The museum contains a large 30 by 42 foot
window that was created to be the same color, size and design of the
original made by Pickersgill that is located next to the house, and
listed on the National Historic Landmark list in 1969.
Fort
McHenry sits in the Baltimore, Maryland harbor, where it played a
significant role in the War of 1812, when it defended the harbor
from an attack by the British navy in Chesapeake Bay that couldn't
have changed the course of the war and the future of this great
nation. It was during that famous bombardment that Francis Scott Key
would be inspired to write a beautiful poem called the Star-Spangled
Banner that would grow into the national anthem for the United
States. The fort was designed by Frenchman, Jean Foncin in 1798, and
become Fort McHenry after it was named for James McHenry, the
Scottish-Irish immigrant and surgeon-soldier that would become the
first Secretary of War under President George Washington. The fort
has been constructed after this nation gained its independence so
that it could defend the port of Baltimore from any future attacks
that could lead to the capitol. Sitting on the end of Locust Point
peninsula that juts out into the harbor, and built in the shape of a
five-pointed star encompassed by a dry moat. The moat would enable
musketmen to defend the fort from land attacks, as well as becoming
a first line of defense, that would put the enemy at a disadvantage
point being cross fired on by various locations around the fort and
inside it. The fort would become a national park in 1925, and in
August, 1939, it would be redesignated as a national monument and
historic shrine, which is the only one of its kind in the United
States. In 1966, it would be placed on the National Register of
Historic Places and a new tradition would be borne out of that war
that had every new flag flying over the fort before it would head to
its new home. The first official 49th and 50th starred flags are
still located there, flown over its bastions and still found on the
location. The original flag that had flown over the fort which is
the Star Spangled banner flag, was in such terrible shape that had
to undergo extensive repairs and is shown at the National Museum of
American History inside a special exhibit that lets it lie on its
side in a small angle with dim lighting so that it won't decay as
fast. The oversized flag had been created by seamstress Mary
Pickersgill for $405.90 before the fort was attacked, although they
knew it was coming, therefore the need for the flag, and when it was
raised that morning, Francis Scott Key, a Washington lawyer that had
come to the city to negotiate the release of Dr. William Beanes, a
civilian POW and saw the magnificent flag raised at just the right
moment that it filled him with such a moving love for his new nation
that he just had to write down those feelings in a poem.
The
Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum is located in Baltimore, Maryland in
a row house that had been leased by his grandfather, Pius
Schamberger, who had been an upholsterer. The Babe was born George
Herman Ruth on February 6, 1895 at 216 Emory Street that is just a
long ball from Oriole Park in Camden Yards. As the 1960s came and
started to end, with the rush to attend the infamous scenario at
Woodstock, New York, the property and the three row houses next to
his, had fallen into such bad disrepair that the city planned on
taking them down. Hirsh Goldberg, press secretary for Mayor Theodore
McKeldin, began a successful campaign to save and remodel the house
so that it could open as a national shrine in 1974. The Babe Ruth
Foundation was then formed to take care of the management and other
needs, helping the Babe's widow, Claire, his two daughters, Julia
and Dorothy, as well as his sister, Mamie, who was also born in the
house; install many relics and mementos. By 1983, the museum had
expanded enough to become the official museum of the Baltimore
Orioles, the team that had signed Ruth originally. It was at that
point that the foundation formally started operating the Babe Ruth
museum, and in 1985, the mayor, William Donald Schaefer made the
museum the official archives of the Baltimore Colts, as they had
left the year before to go to Indianapolis. When Orioles park opened
in Camden Yards in 1992, the attendance would climb to more than
60,000 visitors being welcomed here each year, and it wouldn't be
long before the board realized that the venue was way too small to
handle such crowds and the large number of exhibits that had grown
there. The other museums and their relics would be moved to Camden
Yards in 2005 at the Camden station, while the Ruth museum reverted
to its former mission of showcasing only Ruth's accomplishments and
memorabilia. Some of the outstanding exhibits housed here
include; the Babe batted here, the Ruthian Record, Babe: Father,
Husband and Friend, 500 Home Run Club, the Historic house and
Playing the Babe, although they have continuously failed since the
Babe was one of a kind, never to be matched or equaled no matter how
history, baseball, games per season or even drugs might attempt to
change that. 