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Canton, Baltimore: what the old maps cover
2 streets in Canton are indexed in this release, and every one of them sits inside the Sanborn atlases digitised for Baltimore (1890, 1901). Start with the street, then read the sheet.
Canton
Baltimore, Maryland
The map centres on the streets indexed here. It is an orientation aid, not a neighbourhood boundary.
Streets indexed in Canton
- Boston StreetHeavy waterfront industry: canneries, copper works, oil and coal handl…
- O'Donnell StreetCanning district: packing houses, box factories, rail sidings.…
Reading Canton on a Sanborn sheet
Open the index sheet of an edition, find the sheet number covering these blocks, then read the lettering inside each footprint. The glossary explains the abbreviations, and the decoder groups them by the kind of use.
Do you know something about Canton, Baltimore?
Old photographs, what your family remembers being on the corner, a shop that is not on any map we have. Contributions are read by a person before anything is published, and we never publish the names of living people.