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Mount Vernon, Baltimore: what the old maps cover
1 street in Mount Vernon 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.
Mount Vernon
Baltimore, Maryland
The map centres on the streets indexed here. It is an orientation aid, not a neighbourhood boundary.
Streets indexed in Mount Vernon
Reading Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon, 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.