It later became a granary for sugar-producing Caribbean colonies, and eventually a working-class port town with a number of booming industries. Baltimore is a city of neighborhoods – more than 220, in fact!.Baseball legend Babe Ruth was born in Baltimore.Many historic African Americans have called Baltimore home, including Thurgood Marshall, Frederick Douglass, Isaac Myers, Billie Holiday and Cab Calloway.The Baltimore Museum of Art has the world’s largest collection of paintings by Henri T.Fort McHenry, in Baltimore, is the birthplace of the American national anthem, which was written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812, when the Fort was defending the Baltimore harbor.Baltimore continued to grow into the thriving, modern-day city that it now is – progressive, innovative, and looking toward the future, while still valuing and preserving the rich history of its past.
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