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George B. ‘Spider’ Anderson: First Winning African American Preakness Jockey and a Baltimorean

Six years after the end of the Civil War, in 1871, Baltimore City built the fourth of eleven large public marketplaces, the Lafayette Market,...
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Mr. George E. Mitchell: Gone from Life in 2020, Alive in Park Heights in 2023

If Brandon M. Scott is the Baltimore mayor from Park Heights, then George E. Mitchell of Baltimore was the mayor of Park Heights. Except...
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Why Black Jockeys Are No Longer King in the Triple Crown of Horse Racing

In a 2012 CNN exposé, “The Forgotten Godfathers of Black American Sport,” Sheena McKenzie examined how the post-Civil War-pre-Jim Crow horseracing industry, then a...
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135 Years of Trains, Planes and Change: Park Heights, 1888 – 2023

Just imagine. Nearly one-hundred years ago a Park Heights resident could have breakfast in their kitchen at 7 a.m. and arrive to work in...
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Preakness Stakes: A 150 Year Retrospective

While at an 1868 dinner party celebration with a group of his horse-racing-enthusiast friends in Saratoga, New York to celebrate Milton H. Sanford, a...
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