The President Street Station in Baltimore, Maryland, is a former train station and railroad terminal. Built in 1849 and opened in February 1850, the station saw some of the earliest bloodshed of the American Civil War (1861-1865), and was an important rail link during the conflict. It is the oldest surviving big-city railroad terminal in the United States.
An 1856 illustration of President Street Station in Baltimore
President Street Station and its eastern yards and shops of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad twenty years after construction, in 1869
President Street Station during the Great Depression in 1936
In the 1970s, President Street Station was used as a trucking terminal; on the left, behind the head house, is the train shed that was added in 1913 to replace the original 1850 shed.
Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. With a population of 585,708 at the 2020 census, it is the 30th-most populous city in the United States. Baltimore was designated an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851, and is currently the most populous independent city in the nation. As of the 2020 census, the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was 2,838,327, the 20th-largest metropolitan area in the country. When combined with the larger Washington metropolitan area, the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area (CSA) has a 2020 U.S. census population of 9,973,383, the third-largest in the country.
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