In the 19th and early 20th Centuries, The North Baltimore Beacon was a major source of national and international news as well as local affairs for the town’s citizens. On April 19, 1912, the Beacon featured this article about the sinking of the Titanic. The Titanic, a British passenger ship,…
The Buckeye Match factory was located at 331 East Cherry Street in the early 1900s. Company offices were located in the white wooden building in the foreground. The two dark wooden buildings behind the office were warehouses built alongside the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton (CH&D) railroad tracks. The 12,000 gallon…
Before the installation of automatic warning signals, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad employed crossing guards to stop pedestrian and automobile traffic when trains approached. An important part of his job was looking out for young children and the elderly. In the late 1930s and 40s, Jake Doering was the crossing…
The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), a national organization of Union Civil War military veterans, proclaimed the Memorial Day holiday in 1868 to commemorate those Union soldiers and sailors who died during the Civil War. North Baltimore’s tradition of Memorial Day parades began in the early 1880s. Local Union…
The following article appeared in the September 11, 1903 issue of The North Baltimore Beacon in the Home Notes Section: Sousa is back from a record breaking trip in Europe where he achieved success that has never been equaled by any other conductor and established himself among the first of…
The CSX Intermodal facility and the accompanying construction of the Liberty High Road overpass will soon cover the site of the old community of Denver. George D. Chase, a Union Army Civil War veteran, founded the hamlet in 1875 in hopes that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad would locate a…