Talk:Fell's Point, Baltimore

Could this be merged with Baltimore? Another way of asking that is, can you see this article becoming full length and encyclopedic? I don't really know, I am only wondering. rhyax 07:23, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I could definitely see this becoming a good article if someone would take the time to write it out. Fells Point has a great historical story to it and is one of the oldest areas in Baltimore City. --ScottyBoy900Q∞ 13:07, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

According to the official site and the historical society's site, the actual name is "Fell's Point." Can this be fixed without breaking all the links?

Citation for #2 immigration status

A note on the Fells Point Preservation Society] website says "Baltimore was second only to Ellis Island as a port of immigration." That agrees with the Port of Baltimore page at the Maryland Immigration Digital Library, which describes the B&O Railroad building an "immigrants pier" and says that "Baltimore became second only to New York in the number of immigrants received, and this service lasted until World War I" (and provides a published text citation). I assume that pier was in Fells Point? What citation should be placed in the article? Should the wording be reduced to "Baltimore ports" being second to Ellis Island until the location is definitively pinned down to Fells Point? DMacks 04:18, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh i know baltimore is #2 i am not disputing that, it's the idea that the majority of them passed threy Fells as their point of entry. Fells, specificaly the Hendersons Warf, was the parimary Port of entry for immigrants prior to the civil war, but aft the civil war, US immigration set up an immigration station across the harbour in Locust Point (B&O rail yards) and down the harbor in Canton (near Clinton Street to serve the PRR), with the Locust Point haveing the majority of all of the three. the B&O rail building that you are talking about is more then likelythe station in Locust Point, as the B&O construced and owned the facalites, one of the reasons why Baltimore never got the immigrant hit like new york, was the fact it ws so much easier to jump from ship to rail in Baltimore then in New York, also sonidering that many immigrants to baltimore were already headed elswhere prior to their arrival, duse to the fcat that the B&O had established partnerships with many of the steemship lines that came to Baltimore. Their is more info Here, and i am going on personal research of my own.--Boothy443 | trácht ar 05:56, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

List of Bars

Is there any way to get a full listing of Fell's Point bars with their locations? I question the accuracy of the statement that 120 bars exist in Fell's — I believe it to be more like 60-70. --K-lit 19:01, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Name

I'm just wondering why this article is at Fells Point, Baltimore and not simply Fells Point? Naming conventions indicate that an article should be located at its name's simplest unambiguous form. I have never heard of another place called "Fells Point", certainly there is not another Fells Point that is notable, and there is no Fells Point (disambiguation), just Fells Point which is a redirect to here. So, why are we here and not at Fells Point? Wilhelm_meis (talk) 11:48, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

I agree. See Upper Fells Point. Folklore1 (talk) 15:04, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Enviromental impact statement and Fells Point

I do not know if this is of interest, but defeat of the highway destroying Fells Point was accomplished by a review of the Enviromental Impact Statement justifying the highway. This was one of the first EIRs ever written. As was shown by Barbara Mikulski's objections to the highway that were placed in the Federal Register, the EIR was a pretty pathetic piece of trash–ill written, self-contradictory, and so lacking in common sense as to give rise to the writer(s)' sanity.

A local freelance journalist analyzed the EIR and wrote a 4,000 word article mocking it; the article ran in a shortlived alternative newspaper, Port City News. Barbara Mikulski picked it up from there. She had the article entered in the Register as part of the hearings that halted the construction.

It was the peak of my journalism career.

Georgejdorner (talk) 00:15, 1 July 2011 (UTC)