![]() My favorite object that I found was a wonderful comic book published by Hochschild Kohn called Rails Across America. These 13 tickets represent stages in the development of the B&O railroad.ī & O Railroad Ticker Souvenirs, JMM1991.147.034 This string of tickets from Baltimore & Ohio Railroad printed as a souvenir traces the history of the B&O Railroad from 1830 to 1889. ![]() One of the first things I found was some tickets from the B & O Railroad. I searched even more to see what kinds of things were in our collections about trains and the railroad. He submitted a similar petition in 1802, and again in 1824, which ultimately led to the final passage of the “Jew Bill” which was passed in 1826. ![]() He and his father-in-law Bernard Gratz petitioned the Maryland House of Delegates in 1797, asking that Jews “be placed upon the same footing with other good citizens,” but were rebuffed that year. Etting CemeteryĮtting also lobbied extensively to end Maryland’s exclusion of Jews from elected office. The Etting Cemetery is located on North Avenue. At the time, there were not any incorporated congregations, so they purchased this land as individuals. In 1801, Solomon and his uncle purchased the “Jew’s Burying Ground,” the cemetery used by Baltimore’s Jewish community. He trained as a shochet, or kosher butcher, in 1782, possibly the first native-born American to do so. Etting was active in the Jewish communities in York, Lancaster and Baltimore. He lived in York and Lancaster, Pennsylvania until he moved to Baltimore in 1791. One of the founding members of the B & O Railroad was Solomon Etting, an early businessman and civic leader in Baltimore. ![]() Have you ever played the game to see how many degrees of separation? As we kept riding, I was determined to go back and find the degrees of separation between this very cool tunnel and my work at the Jewish Museum of Maryland. It formed a critical link in the north-south line assembled by the Northern Central Railway. Originally constructed by the York and Maryland Line Rail Road, the Northern Central Railroad was a subsidiary of the B & O Railroad. While on the trail we came across the Howard Tunnel which I learned has been in operation since 1838 and is the second oldest tunnel rail bridge that exists in the United States. Brown Rail Trail (also known as the NCR Trail or the Northern Central Railroad trail). We found ourselves in the southern part of Pennsylvania on what is now the York County Heritage Rail Trail, which connects to a similar hike/bike trail in Northern Maryland down to Baltimore named the Torry C. ![]() Over the holiday weekend, my husband and I went “Biking Beyond Borders,” meaning we biked outside of the state, north of the Maryland Dixon-Mason Line. A blog post by Education Director Ilene Dackman-Alon. ![]()
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