Tag: gay street

water lots

to the channel of the river
that penetrated a ledge
wharves of pine cord
one thousand feet.
named when it ran fast and cold
and the channel was glens and gorges
stretching from sunrise to sunset

old pier at sunrise
(in 1759 two landowners built wharves from gay and lombard streets to avoid the cost of buying a waterfront lot)

back inhabitants

horse, cart, and wagon
clatter over the public bridge
between meadow and marsh
over the stream.
from west and north and east
spinners and weavers, tanners, millers and brewers
barbers and tailors and shoemakers
coopers and wheelwrights and carpenters
butchers and bakers
laborers.
midwives

freeway at sunrise
(jones town and baltimore town, connected by a public bridge over jones falls near gay street, merged in 1745 and were becoming a center of activity for colonists in counties to the north and west)