[Chat] O Say Can You See - Please Join Us This Sunday

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Date:   3/29/2012 2:14:00 PM EDT    
From:   Jstewart at dat.state.md.us    

Waverly Main Street commemorates The War of 1812 Bicentennial from 12:00 PM 
to 2:00 PM on Sunday, April 1, 2012 with a walk through history beginning 
on the site of a former American Revolutionary military barracks at 3009 
Greenmount Ave &Old York Rd, now St Johns in the Village. 

Stops along the way include Waverly Fire House, which has protected and 
served the village for over a hundred years, old US Post Office Waverly 
Station, historically renovated for reuse as Ace Hardware, Waverly Historic Marker 
on Olmsted Green, 

Waverly Main Street office and historic marker on Merryman Lane, concluding 
with a reception outside old Waverly Town Hall, 3100 Greenmount Avenue and 
31st Street, 
a Baltimore Landmark where villagers voted for annexation into the city in 
1888.

THE NEW HISTORIC SIGN IN FRONT OF THE TOWN HALL TELLING THE STORY OF THE 
BUILDING AS A COMMUNITY CENTER AND ITS RECENT DESIGNATION AS A CITY LANDMARK 
WILL BE OFFICIALLY UNVEILED! 

POETRY IN COMMUNITY will recite revolutionary verse including Francis
Scott Key's The Star Spangled Banner and the musical group MIDWAY FAIR
will perform. 

Baltimore City Historical Society will be represented. 

VILLAGE LIFE historic walking tour booklets will be given out complements 
of Baltimore National Heritage Area. 

Refreshments will be served complements of Baltimore Main Streets. 

National Main Street Conference delegates in town from around the
country 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 John's 
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 Waverly's 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 magnificently columned veranda stood at the east end of 
Thirty-Third Street until its destruction in 1907.

SPEAKERS include: 

Jason Vaughan, Baltimore National Heritage Area;
Judy Armold, Baltimore City Historical Society; 
Command Sergeant Major Franklin Wright, National Association of Black 
Veterans; 
Christos Christou, Jr., War of 1812 Society in Maryland; 
Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld, III, Baltimore City Police Department; 

Captain John Parker, Waverly Fire House #31; 
14th District City Councilperson Mary Pat Clarke; 
Michael Haynie, Waverl Main Street President;
Stacy Montgomery, CHAP.

Free food/beverages are coming from TRINIDAD GOURMET. The event will go on 
- RAIN or SHINE.
For more information, contact joestewart31947 at comcast.net 

Images celebrating Waverly and The War of 1812 can be seen at:

http://northbaltimore.patch.com/blog_posts/o-say-can-you-see-were-celebratin
g-up-in-waverly
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