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Federal Hill, Baltimore: what the old maps cover

2 streets in Federal Hill 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.

Federal Hill
Baltimore, Maryland

The map centres on the streets indexed here. It is an orientation aid, not a neighbourhood boundary.

Then and now overlay

Streets indexed in Federal Hill

Reading Federal Hill 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.

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