Thank you to Maryland Humanities for awarding HSBC with a Marilyn Hatza Memorial SHINE Grant again this year! This general operating support is vital for our organization and helps us…
What remains of a more than 200-year-old burying ground for the McAllister, Brooks, and Beam families is on the grounds of the Pikesville Middle School on Seven Mile Lane. A…
Baltimore County has a rich history, with significant contributions to Maryland’s and America’s cultural, technological, environmental, and social evolution. There are many great museums, societies, historic sites, and other groups…
Order the book HERE! Information about the mills along the Gwynns Falls can often be challenging to locate within large State archival collections. In John McGrain’s new book, the…
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The Baltimore County Flag – Heavily Ridiculed, Still Adopted Adam Youssi June 2015 (Special thanks to the Baltimore County Department of Planning, Preservation Services, for access to their files for…
Deteriorating 19th c. Black Church & Cemetery Reborn as Small Museum & Meeting Place Cherry Hill AUMP Church in Granite, MD April 23, 2015 Today, we visited the results of…
When Inspiration Strikes… By: Sally Riley April 22, 2015 I’m a graduate of Mount Saint Agnes Lower School and Mount Saint Agnes College [MSAC]. So, when a copy of the…
HSBC’s Used Books Donated to The Book Thing of Baltimore, Inc. April 2, 2015 Today, the society donated hundreds of remaining books from its used book sale to a good…
Woman’s Club of Catonsville Collection The society accepted and accessioned a collection consisting primarily of documentary materials related to the operations of the Woman’s Club of Catonsville (WCC). The club…
Woodlawn Replaced Powhatan Mill & Town By: Martha Hendrickson March 31, 2015 Today we know Woodlawn as a community, the national headquarters of the Social Security Administration and the previous…
Hidden Treasures: The HSBC Cemetery Transcription Files By: Ann Royston Blouse March 10, 2015 In the 1970s, HSBC members undertook the project of locating every cemetery in Baltimore County and…
Does History Matter? What locals in Baltimore County have to say about history… By: Justin Albright (Towson U. History Student & HSBC Intern.) Over the past week I have…
Since its incorporation in 1959, the Historical Society of Baltimore County (HSBC) has been housed in Baltimore County’s third and last Almshouse (built 1872). HSBC’s mission is to collect, preserve…
An image of the Sparrows Point Rail Mill c1895. Sparrows Point was named for Thomas Sparrow, landowner, and was the site of a very large industrial complex owned by the…