Baltimore
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- Names
Baltimore
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located at the head of Patapsco river estuary above Chesapeake Bay; settlement founded as outlet for local tobacco, developed as producer of clipper ships in 18th century; many citizens had Southern sympathies in Civil War, though state was pro-Union.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Library of Congress HABS/HAER (1987-); National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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