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| Baltimore's Civil War Museum |
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| Rob and Tom at a display |
Baltimore's Civil War museum is a free museum located near the Inner Harbor. It's a small museum with a lot of interesting information in it. I didn't know that the building was once a railroad station called the "President Street Depot." The former wooden station platform extended behind it (demolished in the 1920s) toward where Fell's Point is located (east of the Inner Harbor).
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| Action at the President Street Depot |
The President Street Station in Baltimore, Maryland, is a former train station. Built in 1850, the station was an important rail transportation link during the Civil War. Today, it is the oldest surviving big-city railroad terminal in the United States
and is home to the Baltimore Civil War Museum.
WHAT RAILROAD DID THE STATION SERVE? - The Baltimore and Port Deposit Rail Road (B&PD), founded in 1832, completed a rail line from Baltimore to the western shore of the Susquehanna River in 1837
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| Display of Baltimore Riots during Civil War |
The displays explained how Maryland was a southern sympathizer until the Union troops moved in and educated them. :) There's also an extensive display of how the Underground Railroad ran through the state and the Baltimore riots during the Civil War period. Gives you a good feel for what happened that you won't read about in history books.
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| Rob and Tom in the museum |
WHAT IS THE BALTIMORE RIOTS? - The Baltimore riot of 1861 (also called the Pratt Street Riot and the Pratt Street Massacre) was a conflict that took place on April 19, 1861, in Baltimore
, Maryland between Confederate
sympathizers and members of the Massachusetts militia en route to Washington for Federal service. It is regarded by historians as the first bloodshed of the American Civil War.
The train station was involved in the Baltimore riot of 1861, when Massachusetts
troops bound for Washington were marching to the B&O Camden Station ten blocks west and were attacked by an angry mob of Southern sympathizers, with several people killed in the ensuing melee.
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| Front entrance is the former back of the railroad station |
If you're walking the Inner Harbor, walk over to this museum. It's small, but worthwhile.
This is a great museum and well worth visiting!!
