Join us for an upcoming heritage tour! We ride bikes, climb scaffolding, and walk up and down hilly streets on our tours of Baltimore’s historic buildings and neighborhoods all across the city. Have a question? Look through our FAQ page. Check out our calendar of events below!

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The Nooks and Crannies of Druid Hill Park by Bike

Clipper Mill Entrance to Druid Hill Park 3500 Parkdale Avenue, Baltimore, MD, United States

Oil up your old bike, and spend a serene June morning exploring the nooks and crannies of beautiful Druid Hill Park with amateur historian Ralph Brown. Along the way, we’ll learn why a Know Nothing Party mayor left the park to the city in the 1850s, stop by a hidden Zen garden, and explore the park’s history of segregation. If you can ride a bike you will be right at home on this tour: the route will be on mostly flat, dedicated, safe bike trails.

$15

Laurel Cemetery Voluntour: Trash Clean-up and History Tour

Laurel Cemetery 2401 Belair Road, Maryland, United States

Join us to learn about one of Baltimore’s most important, and forgotten cemeteries, and help clean it up as you learn! Laurel Cemetery was incorporated in 1852 as Baltimore’s first nondenominational cemetery for African Americans. It quickly became a popular place of burial for people across Black Baltimore’s socioeconomic spectrum, including 230 Black Civil War veterans and notables such as Civil Rights activist Reverend Harvey Johnson. In 1958 and after a series of lawsuits failed to prevail in the courts, Laurel Cemetery was leveled. Today it is the site of the Belair-Edison Crossing Shopping Center, and home to several businesses. However, many current patrons and nearby residents are unaware of the site’s former purpose and significance. Join members of the Laurel Cemetery Memorial Project to see the site firsthand…and have a hand in improving it. This free event will include an hour-long trash clean-up followed by a history tour of the site. All supplies will be provided. Please meet at the grassy area at 2401 Belair Road.

Free

Federal Hill

Federal Hill Park (Southwest Corner) 301 Warren Avenue, Baltimore, MD, United States

Baltimoreans celebrated atop Federal Hill when we ratified the U.S. Constitution. We used it to defend the city from the British in the War of 1812 and to make sure we stayed in the Union in the Civil War. We have even tunnelled under it to quarry minerals. Join us on a tour of Federal Hill and the neighborhood around it to learn about this waterfront community’s rich history, including stops at one of the last wooden houses in the city, the oldest house in Federal Hill, and the wonderful alley houses along Churchill Street.

$10 – $15

Sites of the Baltimore Slave Trade: A Talk by Richard Messick

Engineers Club / Garrett Jacobs Mansion 11 West Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD, United States

Join us on May 18 to hear Richard Messick discuss the growth of the domestic slave trade in Baltimore, the various methods and locations of sale, and some of the more notorious traders in the business of selling people. After its incorporation in the late 18th century, the population of Baltimore grew very quickly along with the expansion of the new country. The market for the sale of people that grew up in the Mid-Atlantic region was also extensive. Although many of the associated buildings no longer exist, Richard Messick's research and mapping project show the deeply interwoven relationship between the trade of human beings and our streets of Baltimore.

$10 – $15