Baltimore

Baltimore’s location on the Patapsco River influenced settlement in area in the early 17th century. It was a natural harbor, with incoming streams from the north and west toward the Patapsco fall line, ideal for water-driven mills.
During the 1660s the Maryland General Assembly appointed commissioners who granted land to colonists.
The sandy plains bordering the Chesapeake Bay were ideal for growing tobacco, and a tobacco-based economy quickly developed in pre-Revolutionary Maryland. By 1742 regular tobacco shipments were leaving Baltimore harbor for Europe. When the British occupied Philadelphia in 1777, Baltimore became the meeting place of the Continental Congress.
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