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Canton is a neighborhood located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The neighborhood, located in the southeastern section of the city, is traditionally centered around O'Donnell Square (home to several bars, a former fire station, an art gallery, and several restaurants), though new developments in recent years have added other focus areas to the neighborhood. A neighbourhood or neighborhood (see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community located within a larger city or suburb. ...
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Canton Waterfront Park & Fishing Pier Park, two marinas and a public boat launch, DuBurns Soccer Arena, and many small interesting restaurants. Close to Patterson Park, Fells Point, Highlandtown, Greektown and minutes to downtown. Patterson Park is fondly known as the best backyard in Baltimore. The park is bordered by Baltimore Street on the north, Eastern Avenue on the south, South Patterson Park Avenue on the west, and South Linwood Avenue on the east. ...
Fells Point is a neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, home to a variety of shops, restaurants, coffee bars, music stores, and over 120 pubs. ...
History
 A view down O'Donnell Street in Canton's "Square" The Canton area was developed from the plantation of the seaman of, John O’Donnell, in the late 1800s by his son, Columbus O’Donnell, William Patterson, and Peter Cooper. The land was sold for expanding waterfront industrial uses and housing to support the blue-collar workers. During the early 1900s, European immigrants settled in the area, most notably, Welsh, Irish, German and Polish. In the past several years though, as industry moved out, new housing and marinas have been developed along the waterfront and gentrification of the existing housing has occurred further inland. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 525 pixelsFull resolution (2272 × 1491 pixel, file size: 473 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
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The Welsh are, according to Hastings (1997), an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language, which is a Celtic language. ...
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The first branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, is located in Canton on O’Donnell Square. The branch has been in continual operation since 1886. The Enoch Pratt Free Library, located in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, is one of the oldest free public libraries in the United States. ...
Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Housing stock The majority of houses in Canton are turn-of-the-century two- and three-story rowhouses on narrow or wide streets. Some of the homes closer to the water date from the Civil War. New townhouses have been built at Canton Square and the Anchorage. There are also waterfront apartments and condominiums in rehabilitated industrial buildings and senior housing at Indeco. The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the northern states, popularly referred to as the U.S., the Union, the North, or the Yankees; and the seceding southern states, commonly referred to as the Confederate States of America, the CSA, the Confederacy...
External links - The Canton Community Association
- Baltimore Neighborhoods - Canton
- Canton on MySpace
- Canton News
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