Location: Fort McHenry, Baltimore, MD

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Plan & Sections of Drill Ground at Fort McHenry, Md. Including ordnance, store-rooms, stables hospital grounds, hospital and graveyard. Record Group 77. National Archives

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Founded: 1861
Location: Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1861
  Notes: Baltimore Special Dispensary organized.
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 42
• Dates: 1867
  Notes: Special Dispensary established at 281 North Howard Street
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 44

Founded: 1862
Closed: June 13, 1866
Location: Eastern outskirts of the city near Canton in the neighborhood of Patterson Park, Baltimore, MD

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• Dates:
  Notes: Garrisoned by the 5th New York Heavy Artillery from May 1862 to April 23, 1864 and later by the 11th Indiana and the 1st U.S. Veterans Volunteers
  Source: Indexes to Field Records of Hospitals, 1821-1912. Maryland. National Archives, Washington, DC. RG94 E544

Founded: Incorporated 1870
Location: 106 West Hill Street, Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1847
  Notes: Southern Dispensary founded
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 38
• Dates: 1870
  Notes: (Incor. 1870) 106 west Hill St. Object.–For needy persons living south of Pratt St. and east of Fremont Ave., to the Basin, including Locust Point. Doctor in attendance, May 1 to November 1, 8 a.m. to 12 m. and 2 to 6 p.m.; November 1 to May 1, 9 a.m. to 12 m. and 2 to 4 p.m.; Sundays, 9 to 11 a.m. Outside visits also made. Medicines not given to persons known to be able to buy them. Management. — By board of managers, selected from contributors. Supported by subscriptions (about $100), and by a share of fines from houses of ill-fame. Total income, about $1200.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 43

Location: Baltimore, MD

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Founded: Founded 1778. Incorporated 1801.
Location: 215 N. Stricker Street (Stricker and Lexington Streets), Baltimore, MD

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Baltimore Orphan Asylum. Message of Frank Brown, Governor of Maryland, to the General Assembly at its Regular Session, January, 1894 (Baltimore: Wm. J.C. Dullany Company, 1894).. Maryland State Archives

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• Dates: 1894
  Notes: THE BALTIMORE ORPHAN ASYLUM is situated at Stricker and Lexington streets. The cost of the property as it now stands is $40,000. It was organized in 1778, and incorporated in 1801. The estimated number of inmates in this institution since its foundation is 2,000. The capacity of the institution is 175; the number of inmates at present, 110. This institution is claimed to be the oldest non-sectarian charitable institution in the United States. In view of the good work accomplished, the citizens of Maryland have just cause to be proud of it.
  The income of the asylum is derived principally from annual donations and from the interest on its invested funds, consisting of legacies which have been bequeathed to it from time to time.
  The total receipts during the last year were $7,363.97. The General Assembly of 1892, for the first time in seven years, appropriated the sum of $2,000 to assist in repairing and improving the buildings. The amount seems to have been economically expended, and the institution is in every way a credit to its efficient Board of Managers. The appropriation referred to being an assistance to a worthy charity was not misplaced.
  Source: Message of Frank Brown, Governor of Maryland, to the General Assembly at its Regular Session, January, 1894 Baltimore: Wm. J.C. Dullany Company: 94
• Dates: 1920
  Notes: Amounts appropriated for state-aided institutions, from the Maryland Manual, 1921-1922.