Cannons at Fort McHenry
STEVE EMBER: During the eighteen hundreds, Baltimore grew as a business center. It has one of the largest natural harbors in the world. Ships carried goods to and from Europe and South America.
Ships also brought immigrants to America by way of Baltimore. The city was once a major port of entry, second only to Ellis Island in New York Harbor.
Baltimore also became a banking center and a center of education and medicine. The city has a well-known university and hospital that are both named after Johns Hopkins. He was a businessman who died in eighteen seventy-three.
FAITH LAPIDUS: During the nineteen hundreds, Baltimore continued to grow. Factories produced airplanes, chemicals, electronic equipment, ships and steel.
By the nineteen fifties, however, the economy began to fall apart. Racial tensions grew. Whites began to leave the city. Today, black residents are more than sixty percent of the population.
STEVE EMBER: Over the years, the city of Baltimore has worked to give itself a facelift. The best known redevelopment project is called the Inner Harbor. An area once full of old factories and empty warehouses now has stores and restaurants, a science center and an aquarium. There are hotels, office buildings and places to live.
The Fort McHenry national monument is nearby. So are the two sports stadiums where Baltimore's major-league baseball and football teams, the Orioles and the Ravens, play. The Ravens are named after the famous scary poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. The nineteenth-century writer lived, and died, in Baltimore.
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