Gay Street (Baltimore)
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Gay Street is a street in Baltimore, Maryland, that gets its name from Nicholas Ruxton Gay, who surveyed the area in 1747. It begins at the intersection of East Pratt Street near the Baltimore World Trade Center (at the Inner Harbor) and proceeds north and east through Baltimore until it crosses Orleans Street (U.S. Route 40) and becomes Ensor Street. According to the Baltimore City web site, the Gay Street corridor escaped the Great Baltimore Fire in 1904.
[edit] External links
- Shopworn by Brennen Jensen, Baltimore City Paper 10/9/2002.
- Gorsuch-Mitchell Papers, 1698-1921 Maryland Historical Society
- Gay Street Historic District