Cheswolde is residential community in northwest
Baltimore, Maryland
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. It is located along the
Western Run
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. The main roads running through the area are
Greenspring Avenue
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,
Cross Country Boulevard
This is a list of notable streets in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
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Heath St. Route 64. (MTA Maryland)
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, and Taney Road.
The history of Cheswolde dates back to the 18th century. At that time,
Charles Carroll of
Carrollton owned the land to the north of the
Western Run
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in the vicinity of
Greenspring Avenue
Greenspring Avenue is a road in Baltimore, Maryland and its northwestern suburbs. At one time, Greenspring Avenue was Maryland Route 519 from Worthington Road to Dover Road, but the road has since been decommissioned and no longer has any numeri ...
and
Pimlico Road
This is a list of notable streets in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
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Heath St. Route 64. (MTA Maryland)
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Ramsay st
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.
[Nancy Jones-Bonbrest (April 4, 1999)]
"Little-known, close-in charmer".
Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2010-09-18
During the 19th century, the land along the Western Run was used for a mill that was damaged in a flood in 1868.
The majority of Cheswolde's current homes were built in the 1950s and 1960s.
Cheswolde has a large Orthodox Jewish population and is one of four areas of the
Jewish community of northwest Baltimore. The others are
Cross Country,
Fallstaff, and
Glen.
[Sherrie Ruhl (September 25, 1994)]
"Jewish residents give haven vibrant identity".
Baltimore Sun.
See also
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List of Baltimore neighborhoods
Neighborhoods in the City of Baltimore are officially divided into nine geographical regions: North, Northeast, East, Southeast, South, Southwest, West, Northwest, and Central, with each district patrolled by a respective precinct of the Baltim ...
References
External links
Northwest District Maps
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Jewish communities in the United States
Jews and Judaism in Baltimore
Neighborhoods in Baltimore
Orthodox Jewish communities
Orthodox Judaism in Baltimore