In the 1840s, Frederick was among the 100 largest cities in America and considered “cutting edge” in many ways. On the corner of South Market and All Saints Streets, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad dispatched passengers from then-faraway places like Pittsburgh and New York City. Other travelers journeyed westward by wagon on the nation’s first paved highway that cut through the city on Patrick Street.
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