Download or read book The Monumental City, Its Past History and Present Resources (Classic Reprint) written by George Washington Howard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Monumental City, Its Past History and Present Resources IT is proposed in the present volume to give a sketch of the past of Baltimore, with brief allusions to those crises which marked her history and exercised an important bearing upon her progress as a city, also a running essay upon the useful and aesthetic features which make her to-day the most desirable location in America for those in search of homes, or contemplating a change of residence; together with short but comprehensive articles upon the various corporations at present in existence or soon to be organized, and the different departments of trade, commerce, and manufactures, which centre in our city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.