a place apart

not within a half mile
for the reception of poor
vagrants, beggars, vagabonds, and other offenders
idle dissolute disorderly loiterers
who follow no trade, labor, or occupation
as shall be committed by justice.
especially for poor incapacitated by illness, old age, physical handicap, mental deficiency, or insanity
beds, bedding, tools, utensils, cows, horses, a doctor and his medicines
to acquire a livelihood.
for the successful trials of vaccination first on nancy then on others.
for beams of light in the dark grandeur of the soul.
intemperate or opiated
religiously perplexed or fanatic
ill
grief stricken by loss of affection or property
masturbating
indulgent of passion or pride
domestically unhappy.
supposed

alms at sunrise
(in 1773 the colonial legislature enacted a law for the establishment of an alms and work house outside baltimore town—the site selected was near howard, eutaw, and biddle streets)

in steigers meadow

dispense justice
promote virtue
guarantee harmony
preserve the law
respect property and neighbors
replace ignorance and superstition with knowledge of right and wrong.
inspect flour
cull staves and shingles
measure grain
weigh hay and cord wood.
receive specified fees

courthouse at sunrise
(the baltimore county seat was moved from joppa to baltimore town in 1768 and a courthouse was commissioned to be built on a bluff overlooking jones falls)

to the lords of trade

people had plantations on the water
for the convenience of trade
until it pleased god to increase them
so they would build more close and live in towns.
sixty acres of john flemings farm
with respect to trade
might soon become a flourishing place

site of farmhouse at sunrise
(baltimore town, established in 1729, was surveyed in 1730 and divided into 60 lots around the fleming farmhouse near baltimore and lombard streets)

lot 19

whatsoever person or persons within this province
shall blaspheme god
shall be punished with death,
no person professing to believe in jesus christ shall be troubled.
we studied the glory of god in assurance of victory.
a choir sings at lot 19
that he comes with trumpets proclaiming
and every island and sea and mountain shall flee away.
iroquois say we return thanks to the sun

saint pauls at sunrise
(in 1702 the church of england was established in the colony, and would later, continuing to now, occupy one of the original lots of the town)