Fell’s Point Main Street is providing a brand new self-guided walking tour by its historic and vibrant neighborhood. The walking tour highlights the world’s wealthy historical past by way of transporting vignettes and tales spanning from 1850 to 1950.
Walkers transfer at their very own tempo, exploring and unlocking narratives at a sequence of strategically positioned stops all through the neighborhood.
The tour is free and designed for historical past buffs, locals, and vacationers alike. It’s simply accessible by QR codes out there at varied stops across the neighborhood. Those on the tour can hear vignettes that carry the previous alive and reveal the hidden gems and landmark tales of Fell’s Point.
“The first iteration of the tour will embody 46 factors of curiosity over 42 snapshot tales or vignettes,” mentioned Ginny Lawhorn, creator of the walking tour and Fell’s Point stakeholder. Several tales happen over multiple location, Lawhorn defined.
One story passed off in 1913 at 1634 Aliceanna Street, the place a scorching controversy passed off concerning a lodge proprietor who served beer on Sundays with a sandwich, flouting the liquor legal guidelines of the time. Allegedly as a result of a sandwich isn’t a “meal,” the prosecutor argued Oscar Moritz, the lodge proprietor, ought to have his liquor license stripped from him. The liquor board determined he may preserve his license below sure restrictions, however declined to resolve the matter of whether or not or not a sandwich constituted a “meal.”
Fell’s Point Main Street is an official accomplice to Maryland Fleet Week and Flyover Baltimore, and is an extension website to the Maryland Fleet Week website. During Fleet Week, June 12 by June 18, the self-guided walking tour will add stops to the tour that embody maritime tales. As time goes on, extra iterations of the walking tour will evolve and observe.
The tour begins at Broadway Square in Fell’s Point, Baltimore, MD, and is accessible starting Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at 11 a.m.
