1670
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Area first identified as Long Island Point
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1702
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William Cole buys 550 acres on the Inner Harbor
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1726
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English Quaker, William Fell, bought land he named "Fell's Prospect". The land was also known as "Long Island Point" and "Copus Harbor"
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1763
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The town, "Fell's Point" was founded
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1765
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Robert Long House, Baltimore's oldest surviving residence
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1772
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The London Coffee House, Bond & Thames Sts., believed to be the only existing pre-revolutionary War coffee house in the US
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1773
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Fell's Point incorporated into Baltimore Town
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1775
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Fell's Point Ship Yard produced the first frigate of the Continental Navy, the Virginia
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1784
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Broadway Market established
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1787
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The George Wells House, Bond & Thames Sts.
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1797
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Fell's Point Ship Yard produces the Constellation
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1826
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Frederick Douglass, the famous slave, came to Fell's Point, where he stayed until he escaped to the North and Freedom in 1838
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1829
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First public schools in the neighborhood open
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1859
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Baltimore's first horse-drawn streetcar line, beginning and ending at 1724-26 Thames St.
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1869
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Isaac Myers began the nation's first African American-owned maritime railway in Fell's Point
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1700's & 1800's
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Many of the residences, commercial and light industrial buildings in the Fell's Point Historic District were built during this period
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1914
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City Recreation Pier opens
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1960
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Baltimore announced plans to build its East-West Expressway along the Fell's Point waterfront
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1969
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Fell's Point was designated Maryland's first National Historic District
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1978
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Baltimore abandoned plans to build the East-West Expressway through Fell's Point
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1987
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"Tin Men," a movie based on true stores and experiences of the form stone salesmen in Baltimore, was shot in Fell's Point
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1992-2001
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The NBC television series, "Homicide--Life on the Street" set in Fell's Point in the City Pier and the Waterfront Hotel Restaurant.
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