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BaltimoreFounded in 1729 by an act of the Provincial Assembly, the city was incorporated in 1797 with an population of 20,000. During the War of 1812 the British unsuccessfully attacked Baltimore, and Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star Spangle Banner" while watching the bombardment from a British warship anchored in Baltimore Harbor. Baltimore's history has been a series of firsts. The Mount St. Claire Station at West Pratt and Poppleton was the starting point for the first railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio, as well as the country's first railroad freight and passenger station. The first telegraphic communication - "What Hath God Wrought" - was received in 1844. The nation's oldest Catholic cathedral, the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is here; buried in the crypt is John Carroll, the country's first archbishop. Johns Hopkins University, several medical schools and such colleges as the Peabody Conservatory of Music and the Maryland Institute College of Art are located here. |
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