Images and History of Curtis Bay, Maryland

Welcome to

Curtis Bay.com

Featuring Pictures and Excerpts from
"A History Of Brooklyn-Curtis Bay", published in 1976 by
The Brooklyn-Curtis Bay Historical Committee. (site index)

eBook available

How did Curtis Bay receive its name? The name "Curtis" seems to have been a part of this locality since before the land was granted, or royal taxes imposed; certainly before any recorded local history began. It is known that on June 29, 1663, twenty-nine years after the "Ark" and the "Dove" landed, the first Maryland colonists at St. Mary's, 200 acres of land north of Arundel Cove, on which part of the U.S. Coast Guard Yard is now located, was "patented" to one Paul Kinsey, who named his estate "Curtis' Neck". Kinsey was the first colonist to take title to any property in northern Anne Arundel County ...full story

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Aerial View of
Curtis Bay (c.1985)

Site Index:

B & O Magazine, 5/1951: Curtis Bay Ore Pier Dedication
(each page
approximately 125 KB)

B & O Coal in the 1940s Video

B & O Railroad Curtis Bay Coal Pier

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, The

Brooklyn and Curtis Bay - Yesteryear and Today, Views of

Brooklyn's Enoch Pratt Library

Brooklyn Park Crown Station in the 1960s (from 8mm film - 2.25MB)

Cadets of the Revenue Service (1904 Collier's feature, approximately 350 KB)

Cedar Street (now Ceddox Street)

Consolidation Coal on Curtis Bay (from a 1908 post card)

Cereal Street in Curtis Bay

Curtis Bay Aerial View

Curtis Bay Coast Guard Training Station Dance Band

Curtis Bay; The Deep Water Harbor of Baltimore City 1874 (3.25 MB PDF)

Curtis Bay Elementary Schools

Curtis Bay Fire Hall

Curtis Bay History (complete/extensive reading)

Curtis Bay Hotel

Curtis Bay • Our Schools Past and Present (photo gallery)

Curtis Bay Route 6 Transit Ticket, 1943

Curtis Bay Water Tank

Fort McHenry History

Griber's Grocery

Grube's Grocery

Kenney, John H. and the B & O Railroad Curtis Bay Coal Pier

The Last Marshal of Baltimore

Lieman's Store and Beer Garden

Masonville, The Forgotton Community of

News of Yesteryear

Panoramic View of Curtis Bay, June 1917
(approximately 200 KB image)

NEW Palen Family

Reddish's Hill in Curtis Bay

Saint Athanasius Roman Catholic Church – visit web site

Saint Rose of Lima Annual Oyster Roast Fire, 1-29-1956

Saint Rose of Lima Annual Oyster Roast Fire - 16mm Film, 1-29-1956

Schriner, Armanella Hammond: My Girlhood Home and Farm

Slovan Building & Loan

Snow Hill Farm, History of

Trolley News, 5/3/1918
(approximately 400 KB)

United States Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay

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This page last updated March 17, 2012.