Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . LAFAYETTE 193 MARYLAND as being like the one that you know. There were onlyabout fifty thousand people in it. Now there are morethan ten times as many.* Where the Washington Monu-ment now stands was then in the country. And wherenow are stores, and banks, and shops, were then the resi-dences where the people BALTIMORE IN 1831From an old print in the possession of the Maryland Historical Society There was a young man living in Baltimore at aboutthis time named John Pendleton Kennedy. He after-wards won renown both as a writer and as a
Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . LAFAYETTE 193 MARYLAND as being like the one that you know. There were onlyabout fifty thousand people in it. Now there are morethan ten times as many.* Where the Washington Monu-ment now stands was then in the country. And wherenow are stores, and banks, and shops, were then the resi-dences where the people BALTIMORE IN 1831From an old print in the possession of the Maryland Historical Society There was a young man living in Baltimore at aboutthis time named John Pendleton Kennedy. He after-wards won renown both as a writer and as a was born, he says, in a house ^half way between Street and Charles, on the north side of Market[now Baltimore] Street. *See Passanos History of Maryland, p. 302. 194 BALTIMORE TOWN He describes the city in the days of his boyhood, withits hipped-roofed wooden houses in disorderly array. . painted, some bhre and white, and some yellow;and here and there ... a more magnificent mansionof brick, . . with reverential locust trees, underwhose shade . . school boys, ragged little negroesand chimney-sweeps. disported them-selves at marbles. As we stroll down Mar-ket Street we meetstately old gentlemenin long blue coats withbrass buttons. Theircoat collars rise high upin the back, and in frontare ruffled shirts orstocks showing. Theywear
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