Maryland - Baltimore, Monument to Babe Ruth, Oriole Park

Baltimore
Welcome to Oriole Park
Camden Yards

A monument to Babe Ruth, baseball's famous "Sulton of Swat."
2016

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Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Home to the Baltimore Orioles, is a Major League Baseball ballpark located in Baltimore, Maryland. It was completed in 1992 to replace Memorial Stadium.

Maryland - Sandy Cove on the Chesapeake Bay, Sunset

Sunset at Sandy Cove
Morning Cheer Bible Conference at Sandy Cove, located four miles below North East, Maryland on the beautiful Chesapeake bay.

Kodachrome by Kalbach
1957

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From their website:
Since 1946, Sandy Cove Ministries has provided life-changing experiences through camps and conferences. In addition to hosting hundreds of church groups each year, Sandy Cove provides innovative programs for families, adults and children in two locations.

Maryland - Multiview with Animals, Transportation and More

Maryland

Area, 10,577 sq. mi.
Population, 4,781,468
Capital, Annapolis
Largest city, Baltimore
Statehood, April 28th, 1788
Nickname, Old Line State
Motto, Many Deeds Womanly Words
State bird, Baltimore Oriole
State flower, Black-eyed Susan
State tree, White Oak

Photos: Sidney Traub, Middleton Evans, Ron Haisfield
2015

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The Reason for the Nickname:
The Maryland 400 were members of the 1st Maryland Regiment who repeatedly charged a numerically superior British force during the Battle of Long Island during the Revolutionary War, sustaining heavy casualties, but allowing General Washington to successfully evacuate the bulk of his troops to Manhattan. This action is commemorated in Maryland's nickname, the "Old Line State."

Maryland - Gaithersburg, Asbury Methodist Village Apartments

Asbury Methodist Village Apartments
401 Russell Avenue
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20760
A retirement community designed for gracious living, where mutual concern becomes an adventure toward maturity.
1975

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Mutual concern becomes an adventure toward maturity???  It is a retirement home... They are mature.

Maryland - Bay View, Gilpin's Falls Covered Bridge

Gilpin's Falls Covered Bridge
Bay View, Maryland

Of Maryland's seven remaining covered bridges, this is the largest with a span of 119 feet supported by bowstring arches.  Built about 1860, it was restored in 1959 by the Historical Society of Cecil County and the State roads Commission.  Located a few feet from Route 272, it no longer carries vehicular traffic, but is easily accessible on foot.
1980

The sender writes:
Hi, Finally got here. The fishing is so-so.  it's awfully hot.

Maryland - Baltimore, Seaplanes at Transatlantic Air Base

Seaplanes at Baltimore's Transatlantic Air Base, Municipal Airport, Dundalk. Near Baltimore, Maryland.

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Baltimore Municipal Airport ("Harbor Field") is a former airport and United States Air Force airfield about 6 miles southeast of Baltimore, Maryland. (The western half of the airport was within the city of Baltimore, whereas the eastern half was in Dundalk, in Baltimore County.)

Construction began in 1929 and was completed in 1941. It closed on 30 December 1960.

Today the former airfield is the site of the Dundalk Marine Terminal, a multi-use shipping facility of the Port of Baltimore.

Maryland - Baltimore, The National Aquarium

National Aquarium in Baltimore

The National Aquarium in Baltimore is located on a tributary of Chesapeake Bay, the nation's largest estuary.
2015

Maryland - Baltimore Stadium, Aerial View 1944

Air View, Baltimore Stadium, 33rd Street Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland.
1944

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Baltimore Municipal Stadium, was built in 1922 as a football stadium, but became the home to the baseball team The Orioles in Summer 1944. 

Maryland - Baltimore, Fifth Regiment Armory

Fifth Regiment Armory, Baltimore, Maryland
1932

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Fifth Regiment Armory is a historic National Guard armory located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a fortress-type structure located in midtown Baltimore. It consists of a full basement, a first floor containing a 200 foot by 300 foot drill hall, a mezzanine or "balcony" level, and a newer second level (reconstructed in 1933 after a fire) housing the steel roof.  It was the site of the 1912 Democratic National Convention.

Fifth Regiment Armory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Maryland - Bainbridge Naval Training Center, World War 2

Mail Call, Bainbridge, Maryland

Actual Photograph (Real Photo Postcard)

This is postmarked in 1944, but because it was a soldier in the Navy (as per the postmark) there is no stamp,  just the word 'free'.

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United States Naval Training Center, Bainbridge was the U.S. Navy Training Center at Port Deposit, Maryland. It was active from 1942 to 1976.
From 1942 to the end of World War II, the center had trained 244,277 recruits who transferred to various ships and stations throughout the world.

Maryland - Baltimore, M&T Bank Stadium

Baltimore
M&T Bank Stadium, completed in 1998, is home to football's Baltimore Ravens.  It is located between Russell Street and Sharp Street, just west of Federal Hill and the Inner Harbor.  Oriole Park at Camden Yards, home since 1992 of baseball's Orioles, is visible just to the north.

Photo: James Blank
2011

Maryland - Baltimore Court House

Baltimore. Court House
1906

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Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr, Courthouse

In 1894, 79 local and national architectural firms responded to a design competition under the Tarsney Act for the new courthouse. Of the entries, a Greek Revival–styled courthouse proposed by the Baltimore firm of Wyatt and Nolting was chosen. The cornerstone for the Baltimore Courthouse was laid in 1896 and the building was dedicated at a public ceremony on January 8, 1900.

The courthouse occupies a full city block. Eight Ionic columns, each weighing 35 tons and measuring 31 feet in height, support the base of the roof facing Calvert Street. These columns are seven feet taller than those surrounding the United States Capitol.

Maryland - Thorougbred Horse Farm

Thoroughbred Horse Farm of Maryland

Maryland is home of one of the longest and most successful thoroughbred horse breeding industries in the U.S. Horse farms here are famous for their white board fences.

Photo: Greg Pease
2011

Maryland - Large Letter, Love

LOVE
from Maryland

While visiting Maryland you can sail, boat, and crab in the bay, or camp in Western Maryland's mountains.  Slipped quietly between the great areas of the Atlantic seaboard, Maryland offers something for everyone.

Photo: Bob Willis
2011

Maryland - Baltimore, Oriole Park, Camden Yards

Baltimore, Maryland

Oriole Park
Camden Yards
back reads:
C_MD_N Yards
2011

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Oriole Park at Camden Yards is a Major League Baseball ballpark located in Baltimore, Maryland. Home field of the Baltimore Orioles, it is the first of the "retro" major league ballparks constructed during the 1990s and early 2000s, and remains one of the most highly praised. The park was completed in 1992 to replace Memorial Stadium.

Maryland - Baltimore, Shark Fest at the Aquarium and Submarine

Baltimore, MD

Aquarium and Submarine
2011

Maryland - Annapolis, View from East Port

Annapolis, MD
View of Annapolis from East Port
2011

Maryland - Baltimore, The USS Constellation

Baltimore, MD
USS Constellation

Photo by Tom Wachs
2011

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USS Constellation constructed in 1854 is a sloop-of-war (warship with a single gun deck). It is the last sail-only warship designed and built by the U.S. Navy.

From 1855-1858 Constellation performed largely diplomatic duties as part of the US Mediterranean Squadron.
She was flagship of the USN African Squadron from 1859-1861. In this period she disrupted the African slave trade by interdicting three slave ships and releasing the imprisoned Africans.

After the Civil War Constellation saw various duties such as carrying famine relief stores to Ireland and exhibits to the Paris Exposition Universelle (1878). She also spent a number of years as a receiving ship.

Constellation became a training ship in 1894 for the Naval Training Center in Newport, Rhode Island where she helped train more than 60,000 recruits during World War I.

Decommissioned in 1933, Constellation was recommissioned as a national symbol in 1940 by President Franklin Roosevelt.

Constellation was again decommissioned on 4 February 1955 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 15 August 1955 — about 100 years and 2 weeks from her first commissioning. She was taken to her permanent berth in Baltimore, Maryland and designated a National Historic Landmark on 23 May 1963.

She is the last existing American Civil War-era naval vessel and was one of the last sail-powered warships built by the U.S. Navy.

In 1994 Constellation was condemned as an unsafe vessel. She was towed to drydock at Fort McHenry in 1996, and a $9-million restoration project was completed in July 1999.

On 26 October 2004 Constellation made her first trip out of Baltimore's Inner Harbor since 1955. The trip to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, lasting six days, marked the ship's first trip to the city in 111 years.

Today tours are regularly available, self-guided or with the assistance of staff.

Maryland - Chesapeake Bay Bridge 1958

Chesapeake Bay Bridge Linking Western and Eastern Shores of Maryland

Third longest bridge in the world composed of 123 spans, 4.35 miles over water.  Overall length 7.727 miles.  Length of suspension spans, 2,922 1/2 feet.  Roadway, 198 1/2 feet above Chesapeake Bay at highest point.  Cost, $45,000.000.
1958

Maryland - Baltimore, Cathedral (Baltimore Basilica)

Cathedral, Baltimore, Maryland
1920

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The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also called the Baltimore Basilica, was the first Roman Catholic cathedral built in the United States, and was the first major religious building constructed in the nation after the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. As a co-cathedral, it is one of the seats of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland. It is considered the masterpiece of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the "Father of American Architecture".