#OldWestBaltimore

Women's History Month: Bessie Anderson, Black Baltimore Educator

#WomensHistoryMonth2023 #ColoredTrainingSchool (now #CoppinStateCollege)- then located at #DolphinStreet and #PennsylvaniaAvenue...

Philip J. Merrill

Mar 3, 2023

Charting the Great Migration: Afro American Newspaper & World War I

#ChartingTheGreatMigration Article by #JacquesKelly in the #BaltimoreSun #WorldWarI #AfroAmericanNewspaper Rare primary source material...

Philip J. Merrill

Dec 3, 2022

National Savings Day

#NationalSavingsDay2022 Created by #CapitalOneBank in 2017 to encourage people to establish savings goals #FinancialLiteracy...

Philip J. Merrill

Oct 12, 2022

The Baltimore Red Book

#TellTheTruthTuesday #BlackBusinessMonth #BmoreHistory #OldWestBaltimore Y'all have heard of the #GreenBook or the #BlueBook (otherwise...

Philip J. Merrill

Aug 2, 2022

Harvey Johnson Junior High School #106

An #OldWestBaltimore legend For those that don't know, in 1931 the Baltimore City Public School System named a South Baltimore junior...

Philip J. Merrill

Nov 11, 2021

Upcoming Zoom Talk: Captain George W. Brown and Black Maritime Legacy

#BlackMaritimeLegacy #SteamboatExcursionist #BlackEntrepreneurism #ChesapeakeBay #JimCrow #OldWestBaltimore Register for my October 8,...

Philip J. Merrill

Sep 28, 2021

🚨 Upcoming Artifactual Journey Podcast Episode 🚨

Stay tuned for the next #ArtifactualJourneyPodcast episode with Wesley Chandler Wood where we discuss the illustrious history of the...

Philip J. Merrill

Sep 21, 2021

The Martinsville Seven: 70 Years Later

We've included this post on oldwestbaltimore.com because Philip J. Merrill, our CEO & Founder, spent the first years of his life in...

Philip J. Merrill

Sep 4, 2021

Artifactual History

Even #HurricaneIda couldn't stop the start of this collaborative effort. #FriendsSchoolBaltimore and #NannyJackAndCoLLC are...

Philip J. Merrill

Sep 3, 2021

Baltimore City Historical Society Award

So, this happened yesterday while I was in my hometown, #BaltimoreMaryland. Thankful to the ancestors that provided a way to document...

Philip J. Merrill

Sep 1, 2021

Black Maritime Legacy

#MountAuburnCemetery (Established in 1872) #BaltimoreMaryland #CityoftheDeadforColoredPeople #MountWinansCommunity (Established between...

Philip J. Merrill

Aug 31, 2021

Historic Drip: Vintage Beach Attire

#RealPhotoPostcard #VintageBeachAttire #HistoricDrip #GlascoeGeeStokesFamily #OldWestBaltimore Fannie Glascoe Gee Date unknown This real...

Philip J. Merrill

Aug 14, 2021

Chattin' with Cab Calloway's Grandson, Peter C. Brooks

#OldWestBaltimore #CabCalloway #HistoricDrip #ArtifactualJourney In #ArtifactualJourneyPodcast Episode 25, host Philip J. Merrill talks...

Veronica A. Carr

Mar 13, 2020

Estelle Hall Young and the Independent Republican League

#WomensHistoryMonth #OldWestBaltimore #BlackWomanhood #19thAmendment #BaltimoreSuffrageMovement Estelle Hall Young founded the...

Philip J. Merrill

Mar 3, 2020

Upton Mansion

#BlackHistoryMonth2020 #HistoricDrip #OldWestBaltimore #UptonMansion-811 West Lanvale Street #ArtifactualJourney...

Philip J. Merrill

Feb 28, 2020

Stylin' Sepia Sisters

#BlackHistoryMonth2020 #ArtifactualJourney #HistoricDrip #OldWestBaltimore #DouglassHighSchoolClassof1924- 96 years ago!...

Veronica A. Carr

Feb 18, 2020

George Motley Lane

#BlackHistoryMonth2020 #GeorgeMotleyLane (1866-1912) #LaurelCemeteryBaltimore #Virginia #OldWestBaltimore #UnionBaptistChurch...

Philip J. Merrill

Feb 17, 2020

Happy Birthday Cab Calloway!

#HappyBirthdayCabCalloway (December 25, 1907-November 18, 1994) #Bandleader #Author #HorseOwner #OldWestBaltimore #DouglassHighSchool...

Philip J. Merrill

Dec 25, 2019

Holiday on the Avenue: Pennsylvania Avenue Lafayette Market Association

#OldWestBaltimore #PennsylvaniaAvenue #LafayetteMarket #PennsylvaniaAvenueMarket #PennsylvaniaAvenueBlackArtsandEntertainmentDistrict...

Philip J. Merrill

Dec 14, 2019

On This Date: Freedom Sunday Rally (November, 17, 1963)

#OnThisDate-November 17, 1963 (56 years ago) #FreedomSunday #SharpStreetMemorialUnitedMethodistChurch #NAACP #CivilRightsHistory...

Philip J. Merrill

Nov 17, 2019