President Street Station

The President Street Station in Baltimore, Maryland is a former train station. Built in 1850, it is the oldest surviving big city railroad terminal in the United States. The station was an important rail transportation link during the Civil War and is now home to the Baltimore Civil War Museum. Opened on February 18, 1850, the station was built by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad as their Baltimore terminus. In addition to the brick head house, the original station also had a long barrel vaulted train shed over the tracks. A track ran along Pratt Street to connect PW&B... trains arriving from Philadelphia with Baltimore and Ohio Railroad trains at Camden Station to Washington, D.C.. The station was involved in the Baltimore riot of 1861, when Massachusetts troops bound for Washington, D.C., were marching to the B&O's Camden Station ten blocks west and were attacked by an angry mob of Southern sympathizers, with several people killed and the ensuing melee. President Street station was largely replaced in 1873 by Pennsylvania Station, but continued to have some passenger train usage until 1911.
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