Streetwise Baltimore: The Stories Behind Baltimore Street Names

by Carleton Jones

Streetwise Baltimore tells how the city's form and its streets developed and how the centuries have echoed with wars, parades, the colorful daily life of citizens, and one of the greatest fire disasters of American municipal history.

223 pages, Paperback

First published March 31, 1987

Reviews

[Burgersub · Rating 4 out of 5]

this book is a lot of fun. my only complaints are that many of the entries do not actually tell you where the street name came from but rather the history of the street itself, but that's also interesting. to me. i'm a nerd.

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you are very familiar with downtown Baltimore, this is a great book to learn why the streets are named what they are. I unfortunately know only a handful of streets. To see how their names came about definitely was interesting, but I didn't have much really to read because the rest of the streets were unknown to me.