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Explore Baltimore Heritage 101

How to Research Historic Places

This lesson is divided into six parts:

Explore Baltimore Heritage 101

How to Research Historic Places

This lesson is divided into six parts:

Wonder: How do you come up with a question?

Two Houses Diverged in a Neighborhood

Sometimes two houses in the same neighborhood or even the same block start out looking exactly the same but end up looking very different than one another. One house may be used a single-family home and the other may be divided into apartments. One may be covered in formstone and the other is still faced in brick.

Borrowing some inspiration from Robert Frost let’s “look down one” road as far as we can to learn about the history of the house and travel another.

Pick two houses in your neighborhood. Try to find two houses that are the same in some ways (located on the same street or built with a similar design) but different in other ways.
Trace the chain of title for both houses using the Baltimore Heritage [deed research guide](http://baltimoreheritage.org/resources/h

Community Name	Category
A People's History of West Baltimore	History
Baltimore History- Baltimore City Historical Society	History
Bmore Historic	History
Historical Society of Baltimore County	History
Ma & Pa Railroad (Maryland and Pennsylvania)	History
Maryland Genealogy Network	History
Northeast Baltimore History Roundtable	History
The Baltimore Modernism Project	History

Week 1

1: Before class

Share readings/videos
Ask participants to install Zotero

1: Introduction (10 minutes)

Hello all,

In our next class, we will spend a bit of time reviewing last week's discussion on research and then move on to talk about writing—the most important tool you have to share the stories of historic places you care about.

For the next class, please try to bring the research questions you wrote down during our second in-class activity and one or more primary source. You can use the third activity guide to find newspaper articles related to your topic. You can find other sources (including maps, directories, and images) through our directory of local history sources.

I'll also bring a collection of primary sources that you can use for our writing activities so do not worry if you can't find anything (or don't have the time to search).

In our next class,

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