locomotives in the country, stroll through the site’ s original roundhouse and hop aboard the Mile One Express for a 20-minute ride along the first mile of that historic track. The museum will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of American railroading in 2027 with exciting programming all year long, so be sure to come back then, too!
Finally, make your way down to Fell’ s Point, the city’ s storied waterfront where the firstever clipper ships were constructed. At the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park, the site of the nation’ s first African American-owned shipyard, you can learn just how essential the speedy ships were to Baltimore’ s role as a port city and discover the contributions African Americans made to our maritime industries.
Close out your weekend with souvenir shopping at one of the neighborhood’ s many locally owned shops and boutiques, then head to the Waterfront Hotel for a drink and
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a bite. The historic building was built in 1771 and is assumed to be the second oldest in the city. The oldest is known to be the Robert Long House, which you can visit just around the corner from the Waterfront Hotel before toasting to your historic weekend in the City of Firsts. VB
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