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Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Waverly Main Street & Waverly Farmers Market
Special event 3/17/2012
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Mary Pat Clarke, 14th District, Baltimore City Council
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Waverly Main Street Celebrates St. Patrick's Day with Unveiling of Historic Plaque
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at New "GREENspace" on Merryman Lane Adjacent to 32nd Street Farmers’ Market.
Special recognition of historic African American public school # 115
WHEN: Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. rain or shine
WHERE: Waverly Main Street office, 427 ½ Merryman Lane
East of 32nd Street Farmers’ Market, on emerging green open space designed by Waverly Main Street and Civic Works at Brentwood Ave. & Merryman Lane.
WHAT: Unveiling of historic marker in recognition of the rich history of the last remaining block of Merryman’s Lane and the historic African American public school # 115 which stood in this location.
WHO: Betty Williams, former Eastern High principal, and School # 115 Alumna
Dr. Patricia L. Welch, Morgan State University, and School #115 Alumna
Waverly Main Street, 32nd Street Farmers’ Market, Baltimore Civic Works
Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke, 14th District and Barclay School Students
BACKGROUND:
Merryman Lane gets its name from a 1688 land grant by Lord Baltimore to Charles Merryman, whose son John built a house and started a farm on an estate called Clover Hill, near today's Episcopal Cathedral.
In 1889, on the triangle bounded by Brentwood Avenue and Merryman Lane, the Baltimore Public Schools’ Colored Division established School # 115. Three framed buildings housed grades one to six, consisting of as many as 250 and as few as 123 African American pupils each year. When the school opened, the faculty included one of the first African Americans to teach in the Baltimore City Public Schools, Roberta Sheridan. School# 115 closed in the late 1950s. Its alumni include Betty Williams (b. 1923), who grew up on Barclay Street. Her 39 year career as an accomplished educator included serving as principal of Eastern High School (1970 -1977), from which segregation had barred her as a student.
For Additional Information:
Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke – 410-294-3022 (c) 410-396-4814 (o)
Joe Stewart, project coordinator – 410-243-4418 (h) 410-767-1354 (w)
City Hall, 100 N. Holliday Street, Room 550, Baltimore, MD 21202
MaryPat.Clarke@baltimorecity.gov