Title: Plan of the Town of Baltimore And It's Environs Dedicated to the Citizens of Baltimore Taken upon the spot by their most humble Servant
A. P. Folie, French Geographer 1792. Second state.

Scale: Bar scale indicates 200 perches.

Engraver: James Poupard. 

Dimensions: Sheet 55 x 63.5 cm.; image 54.6 x 61 cm. Engraving.
 

Plan of the Town of Baltimore And It's Environs, 1792

Comparison between this 1792 map of Baltimore and the 1780 map by Presbury shows that in a short twelve-year span a considerable development had taken place in Baltimore, especially along the waterfront. In 1780 none of the four wharves extended beyond 200 feet, but in 1792 several were stretching out halfway into the Basin. Ropewalks had been established near the shipbuilding centers east of Fells Point, and on the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River. Large stretches of land had been added to the town, especially Fen's Prospect in the east and Howard's Addition in the west.

In 1784 Harrison's Marsh, between Baltimore Town and the old Jones Town, was partly drained and a market house was erected on Harrison Street (R on map). For the benefit of the residents of the outlying parts of town, market houses were established on Hanover Street (B on map) and in Fells Point (X on map). In 1789 a channel was cut for the Jones Falls across Steiger's meadow with the intention that the old course with the bend would gradually fill up and the meadow be used for development.

Baltimore, in the late 18th century, was slowly encroaching upon Colonel John Eager Howard's estate "Belvedere" in Howard's Park, immediately west of the Jones Falls. Belvedere was erected in 1786 on an estate that orginally stretched from Pratt Street to the Jones Falls and from South Street to Eutaw Street. The park and its house, located between present-day Guilford Avenue and Eager, Chase, and Cathedral streets, was blocking the development to the north of the eight streets between Eutaw Street and Guilford Avenue. Baltimore would nibble away the park in the course of the 19th century.

A. P. Folie was a geographer from France. He also made a map of Philadelphia which was published in 1794.

References:
L. McCauley, 1975, V1.

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