HSBC is excited to announce we have been awarded a $10,000 grant from Maryland Humanities’ Marilyn Hatza Memorial SHINE grant program! This will make a huge impact for a small…
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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…
More copies of our popular new book, What Lies Beneath: The farms, mills, and towns under our reservoirs, have been received. To protect the public and staff alike sales will be…
"Castle Thunder, The Catons, and Catonsville's Historical Myths" (History Trails 42, no. 4 excerpt) By: John McGrain 2011 Numerous sources, including Dr. George C. Keidel, Emily Emerson Lantz, Kate Mason…
The Susquehannocks’ Prosperity & Early European Contact By: Adam Youssi 2006 The Susquehannock Native Americans of North America have an impressive history. This tribe from what is now…
Shanklin Archival Collection
Historic Photo of Hutzler's Department store in Towson, Christmas 1952
Ore boat at Sparrows Point Shipyard.
Photo, c1900, showing B&O Railroad at Loreley Cut.
Photo., c1886, of Drusa Chenoweth of Baltimore County.
Wreck of passenger train, Sparrows Point, c1889; from the album of Herbert William.
Sparrows Point train depot in blizzard, c1899; from the album of Herbert WIlliam.
Historic Photo of Kingsville Bank The bank was erected at the corner of Bradshaw and Jerusalem Roads c1928