Have fun and celebrate Baltimore County's heritage with this quiz prepared by the reference librarians from the Baltimore County Public Library. We will update the quiz each month.
1. What nationally known local hospital was founded with a bequest of $571,441.41?
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2. Where in Baltimore County is one of the thoroughbred industry’s historic breeding farms located?
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3. When the British marched on Baltimore along North Point Road in 1814, they supposedly stopped at this residence. General Ross had breakfast. Then, purportedly, he had to reprimand one of his staff officers who had made an advance on the homeowner’s daughter. She jumped out of a window and escaped and the officer was sent back to the ship in disgrace.
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4. What local eatery was famous for its Coffey Salad, crab cakes and a dessert with sugar rum wash over five layers of yellow cake, four layers of custard filling and topped with rich chocolate?
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5. When this gristmill was built in 1772, it was located in Baltimore County. The next year it was in Harford County and was manufacturing gun stocks and flintlocks for the Revolutionary army. What is its name?
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6. A well-known County restaurant began as a general store where the lady of the house prepared hearty meals in her own kitchen for customers who gathered behind the store to test farm equipment. What is the name of this restaurant?
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7. “Don’t smoke…don’t drink…don’t marry—to excess” That was the advice of this famous man to the young ladies graduating from St. Timothy’s School for Girls in Catonsville in 1909. Who was the speaker?
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8. There is a building in Towson which was built before 1841 and has always been used for commercial purposes including: a general store, a doctor’s office, a picture frame shop, a palm reader’s office, and a gun shop. Where is it located?
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9. Where, according to local lore, did moon shiners set up a still in a Baltimore Country estate’s drawing room?
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10. Where in the eastern portion of Baltimore County is a major Civil War battle memorialized?
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Revised November 30, 2005
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