Lemmon Street Alley Houses

ID: 252 ~ Source: Dr. John R. Breihan ~ Date: April 7, 2010
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Lemmon Street Alley Houses

Exterior view of Lemmon Street Alley Houses.

This file appears in: Irish Railroad Workers Museum

By Johns Hopkins
An avalanche of Irish immigrants hit Baltimore in the 1840s and1850s, many escaping Ireland's Great Hunger Famine of 1845-1853. Many of these immigrants settled in southwest Baltimore and promptly went to work for the vibrant Baltimore & Ohio…