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ACADEMY, CONDUCTED BY THE
LADIES OF THE VISITATION CONVENT, Corner of Park and Centre streets, BALTIMORE.
ERME. FOR BOARDERS.
Board and tuition,. .per annum, $150 00
Washing, mending, &c .. 20 00
FOR HALF-BOARDERS AND DAY SCHOLARS.
Half-boarding, per annum,. $60 00
Tuition in the higher branches, 60 00
Elementary instruction,. 40 00
EXTRA CHARGES.
Ink, quills, &c .. .per annum, $5 00
Ordinary Infirmary charges, ..
3 00
Each of the languages, except English,. . . quarterly, 5 00
Music on the Piano,
15 00
Music on the Harp,
20 00
Music on the Guitar, and use of instrument, ..
12 00
Use of Piano or Harp,
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Drawing and Painting,
5 00
Oil Painting,.
12 50
During the last year there were 155.pupils in the Academy, boarders and day-scholars.
A PREPARATORY SCHOOL for Girls is also conducted at this Institution. TERMS .- For pupils 9 years of age,. .. per annum, $20 00
Payable in advance. ₱ 11 66
25 00
The EXTENSIVE PLAY-GROUNDS of the pupils have been recently doubled in extent ; and another spacious building has been erected, containing, besides other conveniences, THIRTEEN additional MUSIC ROOMS, a LARGE RECREATION ROOM, and a SPLENDID SALOON.
JOEL WRIGHT, BOOK BINDING AND MACHINE RULING, No. 7 NORTH HOWARD STREET,
JOS. S. HASTINGS, Jr. IMPORTER OF
No. 9 S. Charles street,
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No. 9 S. Charles street,
A few doors above the Merchants' Hotel, BALTIMORE,
Offers to COUNTRY MERCHANTS a complete assortment of CHINA, GLASS & QUEENSIVARE,
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E. S. FRYER, No. 1 NORTH GAY STREET, BALTIMORE , MANUFACTURER OF
LOOKING CLASSES, PORTRAIT AND PICTURE FRAMES, WINDOW GORNIGES · AND IMPORTER OF
FRENCH & GERMAN LOOKING GLASSES, PLATES,
FRAMES re-gilt, and PLATES inserted in Frames.
THE BUSin BALTIMORE DIRECTORY,
FOR
1845:
CONTAINING
THE NAMES OF THE INHABITANTS, THEIR PLACES OF BUSINESS AND DWELLING HOUSES,
THE
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DIRECTIONS FOR FINDING THE
STREETS, LANES, ALLEYS, WHARVES, &c.
WITH MUCH OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION.
TO WHICH IS APPENDED A
BUSINESS DIRECTORY,
CONTAINING THE
CARDS AND ADVERTISEMENTS
OF A LARGE PORTION OF OUR MOST RESPECTABLE MERCHANTS, MECHANICS, AND BUSINESS MEN GENERALLY.
BALTIMORE: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY JOHN MURPHY, 178 MARKET STREET. 1845.
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TO THE PUBLIC.
THE undersigned, having been appointed by the late Mayor to the duty of numbering the houses in this city, have, at the suggestion of the leading business men, undertaken to make out a new and complete Directory.
Having now completed the work preparatory to publication, they beg leave to inform their friends and the public that they have made arrangements with Mr. JOHN MURPHY, No. 178 Baltimore street, for printing and publishing the same, and that it will be issued in a very neat and convenient style, with all possible despatch. In announcing this work we do not deem it out of place to point out to the public a few of the advantages that we have enjoyed in this undertaking. Being compelled by the business in which we were employed to visit every house, we have had an opportunity of ascertaining CORRECTLY the Names, Places of Business, and Dwellings of all the householders in the city. We have also taken especial pains to secure a List of all the Public Buildings, Names of the Streels, Lanes, Alleys, and Courts within the city limits, with much other useful information, suitable for a work of this description, and have no hesitation in promising to the public the most correct and useful work of the kind that has ever been offered to the citizens of Baltimore. In conformity with the above arrangement, a Book is kept at Mr. Murphy's Store, where changes in Firms, Removals, and all other changes that may have taken place since we have called at the different places, can be registered. Imme- diate attention on the part of those interested, to this matter, will confer a great favor on the pub- lishers, and insure that accuracy which is so essential to the public. For the convenience of Merchants, Mechanics, Business and Professional Men generally, we have concluded to add at the end of the work a few pages of advertisements. To this matter we have determined to pay particular attention in order to meet the wishes, and promote the general interest of the business community, by inserting their advertisements in a conspicuous manner at a very low price. WM. H. STEWART, A. CARRERE, J. H. VALIANT.
PREFACE.
THE subscriber, in presenting to the public a new Directory of the City of Baltimore, deems it proper to offer a few prefatory remarks relative to the origin, execution, and aim of the work.
By a reference to the preceding card it will be seen that the project of issuing the present publication did not originate with the subscriber, but with the gentlemen, who, having been ap- pointed to number the houses in the city, availed themselves of the opportunity thus afforded, to collect the materials for a Directory. Their opinion is, that they have succeeded in compiling the most useful and correct work of the kind ever offered to the citizens of Baltimore ; but the sub- scriber would be unjust to them, were he to claim any credit beyond that which may be due to its general arrangement, its neat and careful mechanical execution, and the addition of an historical sketch of the city and a Business Directory.
The Directory has been arranged in a compact but distinct manner, in order to bring as many names as possible at once under the eye. This arrangement may cause the list to appear shorter than in other works of the same kind; but in reality much more matter is contained within its pages than would, from a hasty inspection, be supposed.
The Business Directory is regarded as a valuable feature of the work ; and great pains have been taken to give the avertisements a full display, that citizens and strangers may be able to dis- tinguish at a glance the names, number, and variety of firms and occupations, and the facilities offered for trade. The gratuitous circulation of a large number of the Business Directory, through the South and West, will, it is believed, add to the usefulness of the publication, by making known in all directions the strong inducements offered to strangers by merchants, manufacturers, mechan- ics, &c., to form business relations with our prosperous city.
It is also hoped that the brief sketch of the progress of Baltimore, from its settlement to the present time, may prove an acceptable addition in the view of those interested in the prosperity of the city, and desirous of tracing its rapid improvement and anticipating its future increase in wealth and population.
Of the importance and utility of a work like the present, especially to a large and growing city, placed in advantageous competition with other prominent marts in different parts of the country, it can not be necessary to speak. Of the difficulties encountered in the attempt to render such a publication accurate and complete in all its departments, no one can conceive who has not, like the subscriber, become connected with such a labor. No exertion has been spared, on his part, to render the Directory, in all respects, worthy the approbation of the public ; to whose patronage it is now respectfully commended, with the assurance that, should the enterprise be received with favor, it will be continued at a proper period, with every correction and improvement which time and circumstances may render necessary, and which the experience acquired in the preparation of this edition may suggest. JOHN MURPHY.
BALTIMORE, April, 1845.
A SKETCH
OF THE
HISTORY OF BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, the principal city of Maryland, and of the United States south of the Delaware, and the third in population in the Union, is situated upon a branch of the Patapsco River, about 14 miles from its mouth, and 200 miles, by the Chesapeake Bay, from the sea. This branch is about a mile and three- quarters long, and varies from one-eighth to three-quarters of a mile in width ; having its greatest breadth opposite to the tract called Canton. It affords an easy access to the city, and a capacious, safe, and well protected harbor, of a depth and extent sufficient to float ships of the largest class, and to afford ample accommodations for at least two thousand vessels.
The harbor consists of an inner Basin, at the wharves of which vessels drawing ten or twelve feet of water may lie; and an outer bay, lying between Fell's Point and Canton on the north and east, and Whetstone Point on the south, with from sixteen to twenty feet of water. Ships of heavy burden do not go higher up than the Point. From the facilities offered by the depth of the water, the Point is also the seat of the principal ship-yards; from which have been launched some of the finest and fleetest vessels of the American marine, which are especially noted for beauty of proportion and excellence of construction. The name of " Baltimore Clipper" is synonymous, all over the world, with all that is beautiful in naval architecture and perfect in the re- quisites of a staunch and well appointed ship.
The city is built principally on the north side of the Patapsco, and extends around its western termination. Its location is picturesque, and its appearance, especially from the direction of Fort McHenry (situated on the point of a peninsula at the mouth of the harbor), is attractive and imposing. It stands upon uneven ground, the higher points of which afford many beautiful views of the river, the bay, and the adjacent country.
The boundaries of the city are extensive. The streets are broad, and gen- erally cross each other at right angles, with the exception of those in the vicinity of Jones's Falls, a stream that traverses the city from north to south, dividing it into two portions. Indeed, Baltimore may. be regarded as made up of three parts, originally distinct ; but which have gradually spread out, so as to meet each other and form one whole; viz: Baltimore Town, which at first occupied a small tract on the west side of Jones's Falls ; Old Town, which was early and separately settled, on the east side of the Falls; and the village of Fell's Point, which grew up to the south east of that stream, on the outer basin.
A primary object in commencing this sketch was, to pass in review the present condition, resources, and prospects of Baltimore ; but in this connec- tion it seems not inappropriate to illustrate, by a rapid review, the settlement of the villages, as noted above, and the principal incidents connected with their progress from the condition of waste lands and insignificant hamlets, to that of a united, populous, and prosperous city.
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It appears that, in 1662, Mr. Charles Gorsuch, of the society of Friends, took up and patented fifty acres of land on Whetstone Point. The practice at that time was to take up waste lands in small quantities, although the price was extremely low. In 1663, Mr. Alexander Mountenay took up two hun- dred acres of land, comprising the glade or bottom lying on both sides of Har- ford Run, and called Mountenay's Neck. In 1668, Timber Neck, lying be- tween the heads of the middle and north branches of the Patapsco, was pat- ented for Mr. John Howard. In the same year, a tract of five hundred and fifty acres was granted to Thomas Cole, and called Cole's Harbor. This tract extended from Mountenay's land westwardly across the north side of the river, one mile ; and northwardly from the river about half a mile, in the form of a rhomboid, divided into two nearly equal parts by the stream afterwards called Jones's Falls.
At later periods, different persons patented Copus's Harbor, Long Island Point, Kemp's Addition, and Parker's Haven, on the east ;- Lunn's Lot and Chatsworth, on the west ;- David's Fancy, on the south ;- and Salisbury Plains, Darley Hall, and Gallow Barrow, on the north; which, with other tracts, were afterwards added to the town.
About 1682, the tract called Cole's Harbor was conveyed to Mr. David Jones, who gave his name to the stream which runs through the city, and who is believed to have been the first actual settler; having his residence on the north side of the stream, near the head of tide water. In 1711, Mr. Jonas Hanson, having purchased thirty-one acres of Cole's Harbor, with a mill-seat, erected a mill, the remains of which, within a short time, were yet standing near the corner of Holliday and Bath streets. In 1726, Mr. Edward Fell, a merchant from Lancaster, of the society of Friends, settled on the east side of the Falls. The improvements at this time, consisted of two dwellings, a mill, tobacco houses, orchards, &c. The land was about half cleared, and is repre- sented, by a surveyor's return, as middling in quality.
The establishment of ports, towns, &c., was among the instructions first given to the governor of the province; and accordingly, about the year 1683, there seems to have been a general excitement in regard to laying out towns, and creating ports of trade, by act of Assembly. In 1706, Whetstone Point was made a town ;- other towns, which had been previously laid out, were discontinued ;- but so large a number of acts of settlement was passed, as to indicate that the private interests of landholders had more to do with their enactment than public necessity.
At this period, as the produce raised on the borders of the Patapsco was insufficient alone for the lading of ships, and as the population on any one river was too sparse to consume the whole of a cargo, the common station for ves- sels was off North Point; whence they could easily communicate with the rivers and even with the other side of the bay. The increase of population, and the consequent increase of produce and consumption, gradually brought the ships into the river, though not at once to the head of it. In 1723, there were five ships in the Patapsco up for freight to London ; yet but one of them lay in the northern branch; and it is evident that there were then as many in- ducements for vessels to anchor in the south and middle branches, as in the north branch.
At this time the idea of laying out a new town was conceived. As the common place of anchorage for the merchant vessels, and the place to which the main road from the west was directed, the point between the middle and south branches of the Patapsco was regarded by the inhabitants as the most eligible situation ; and application was made to Mr. John Moale, the owner, a merchant from Devonshire, for ground upon which to lay out a town. It is
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even said that a bill for the purpose was introduced into the Legislature, of which Mr. M. was a member; but he, preferring to work the iron ore, with which the spot abounded, refused the application of the people, defeated the measure in the Assembly, and thus made it necessary for the founders of the new town to seek another location.
The head of the north-west branch being then selected, a petition was pre- pared for the Assembly, and, agreeably to the prayer of the petitioners, an act was passed in 1729, entitled, " An Act for erecting a Town on the north side of the Patapsco, in Baltimore county, and for laying out into lots, sixty acres of land in and about the place where one John Flemming now lives." This Flem- ming resided on the north bank of Uhler's Run, near where James R. Wil- liams & Son's dyeing establishment now stands, in south Charles street. By this act, commissioners were appointed, with proper powers; and were directed to purchase by agreement, or to obtain by the valuation of a jury, the above mentioned sixty acres, which they were to lay out in the most con- venient manner into sixty lots, and dispose of to settlers on specified conditions. In compliment to the Proprietary, whose ancestor took his title of Baron from a sea port of the same name, in Ireland, the town thus laid out was to be called " BALTIMORE."
On the 1st of December, 1729, the commissioners purchased of Messrs. Carroll, the owners, the tract authorized by law ; to be paid for at 40s. per acre in money, or in tobacco, at 1d. per pound. On the 12th of January, 1730, they, assisted by the county surveyor, laid off the town. Within, it was divided by Long, now Baltimore street, intersected at right angles by Cal- vert street, not then named, and Forrest, now Charles st. There were also nine lanes ;- East, South, Second, Light, Hanover, Belvidere, St. Paul's, Ger- man, and Lovely Lanes ;- the most of which have been widened into streets, without any change of name. From the small quantity of ground taken up and the location, it is evident the commissioners did not anticipate its present trade or population ; and, strange as it may appear, although commercial considera- tions must have had some influence in the formation of the new town, its ex- terior boundaries no where reached the shore; and but one avenue, Calvert street, appeared to communicate with the water. It is also worthy of notice, that, while but one lot was taken on what is now called Baltimore street, all the lots towards the river were taken within the first three days after they were offered for sale.
In 1730, Mr. William Fell, a ship carpenter, and brother of Edward, who, it will be remembered, had settled on the east side of the Falls in 1726, bought the tract called Copus' Harbor, and some time after erected a mansion on Lancaster street. From him this portion of the city took the name, which it still retains, of " Fell's Point."
In 1732, a new town, of ten acres, was laid off into twenty lots, valued at one hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco each, on the east side of the Falls, on that part of Cole's Harbor settled by Mr. Edward Fell. It was called Jones- town; and consisted of three streets, afterwards called Front, Short and Jones streets ;- on the last of which, on the south-west corner of Bridge st. stood a store, kept by Mr. Fell. This settlement, having been made before Baltimore was laid out, took, after a time, and has since retained, the name of " Old Town."
In 1745, Jonestown and Baltimore were united and called by the name of the latter. In 1747, an act of Assembly was passed, by which Gay, Fred- erick, and a part of Water and Second streets were laid off, with eighteen acres of ground. This addition contained all the solid ground between the eastern limit of the first town and the Falls. The act by which this addition
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was made, pointedly illustrates the jealousy of the Legislature of that day, in the provision inserted, that nothing in it should be construed to give " the in- habitants of said town a right to elect delegates to the Assembly, as repre- sentatives from the town." In 1750, High street, from Ploughman to French, with eighteen acres of ground, was added to the town. A tobacco inspection house was erected on the west side of Charles street, and a public wharf was commenced at the south end of Calvert street, which for a long time was called, the " County Wharf."
In 1751, an unsuccessful attempt was made to erect a Market House and Town Hall, by subscription. The opposing interests of the settlers on the op- posite sides of the Falls, and disputes as to location, most probably defeated the plan. In 1752, there were in the town about twenty-five houses, four of which were of brick. One of these, built by Wm. Payne, and occupied by him as a tavern, is still standing, on the north-west corner of Calvert and Mer- cer streets. The amount of shipping owned in the town at this period, was one. brig and one sloop; but there were probably several vessels owned in the neighborhood. In the same year, thirty-two acres of Cole's Harbor, lying on the south, west, and north of the first settlement, were added to the town.
After the defeat of Braddock, in 1755, parties of Indians passed within forts Cumberland and Frederick, and ravaged the country within ninety miles of the town. Great alarm prevailed, so that the inhabitants of the county fled to Baltimore for safety, and preparations were made to put the women and chil- dren on board of boats and vessels in the harbor. The effect of the war un- questionably was to promote the growth of the town; since many, who would have been disposed to take up lands in the interior, were deterred by the danger, and gave the advantage of their capital and enterprise to the already thriving mart.
In 1756, Mr. Andrew Steiger took the lot on the north-east corner of Gay and Baltimore streets. On the gable of the house at present standing there are fixed the figures " 1741;"' but this date is several years before the laying out of that part of the town, and fifteen years before it was deeded to Steiger. During the same year, many of the " neutral French," deprived of their pro- perty in Nova Scotia by the British, and driven destitute from their homes, took refuge in Baltimore, and were kindly received. By the exercise of great industry and frugality, they obtained the means of purchasing much of the ground on S. Charles street, where they at first erected rude cabins or huts. As they continued to prosper, these gave place to substantial buildings of wood or brick, erected mostly with their own hands. This part of the town was long after known by the name of " French Town."
In 1765, many of the water lots on the Point had been taken ; and as it was favorably situated for building and fitting out vessels, it became a rival of the town. In fact, the first settlers were at a loss to determine in which part to buy ; and, finally, such as could command the means took lots both in the town and on the Point. In the same year, thirty-five acres of the tract called Lunn's Lot, were added to the town, including the streets afterwards called Conway and Barre, in honor of the opponents of the stamp act, in the British parlia- ment. The next year, a law was passed, appointing commissioners to have the marsh between Frederick street and the Falls, filled up and added to the town. Up to this time, the county courts had been held at Joppa, on the Gunpowder river; but such had been the increase of Baltimore, and so great was the inconvenience to which the inhabitants were subjected, in attending court there, that in 1768 a law was passed, authorizing the erection of a Court House and Prison on Calvert street, near Jones's Falls; which was carried into effect. The former, built of brick and two stories high, occupied the
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