Baltimore

Baltimore sits on a deep, sheltered harbor at the head of the Patapsco River estuary, near the top of Chesapeake Bay. That harbor — close to the interior yet protected far up the bay — made it one of the great colonial and early-American ports, the closest major Atlantic port to the Midwest and the eastern terminus of the first U.S. railroad, the Baltimore & Ohio. The inner harbor remains the heart of the city.

The land around Baltimore is the rolling Piedmont meeting the flat coastal plain at the fall line, with the bay and its tidal rivers shaping the region. Famous as the birthplace of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Fort McHenry, Baltimore grew into a major industrial and shipping city and anchors a metro of nearly three million on the Chesapeake.

• Maryland
  The Old Line State, wrapped around Chesapeake Bay located in
• Port of Baltimore
  A deep inland harbor at the top of Chesapeake Bay related