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Waverly Main Street commemorates The War of 1812 Bicentennial 12 - 2 pm Sun., Apr. 1, 2012 with a short walk through history from the former site of the American Revolutionary military barracks at Old York Road & Greenmount Avenue, now St Johns in the Village. Stops include Waverly Fire House, which has protected and served the village for more than a hundred years, old US Post Office Waverly Station, renovated for reuse as Ace Hardware, Waverly Historic Marker on Olmsted green, concluding with a reception outside old Waverly Town Hall at 31st and Greenmount, where villagers voted for Annexation into the City in 1888 and Baltimore recently added to its Landmark List.  

Poetry in the Community will recite Revolutionary works including Francis Scott Key’s T he Star Spangled Banner . The musical group Midway Fair will perform . There will be historic handouts and refreshments. Delegates from around the country in town for the 2012  National Main Street Conference will be our special guests.   

>From Waverly A Narrative of Bygone Years 1731-1960    

by John Allen Sipes and Patricia Ann Riggle (Baltimore 1979) 

  

At least one small contingent of the army that wrest the colonies from George III was headquartered in Waverly. On the modern site of Saint Johnʼs Church a stone barracks was built to house soldiers of the Revolution. Again during the War of 1812 the barracks served as a rest center for weary troopers. And it was this same barracks that became Waverlyʼs first schoolhouse as well as headquarters for the village magistrate. 

  

General Sam Smith, heroic defender of Baltimore during the War of 1812, chose Waverly as the site for his own lofty estate, Montebello. This architectural gem with its magnificantly columned veranda stood at the east end of Thirty-Third Street until its destruction in 1907.  
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