Frankford is a neighborhood in northeast

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. Frankford is the most populous of the city's designated neighborhoods, with over 17,000 residents.

Geography

Frankford is bounded by Belair Road, White Avenue, and Hazelwood Avenue to the north; Moravia Park Drive and I-895 to the south; the eastern city limits, Whitby Road, Arizona Avenue, Moores Run Drive, and

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to the east; and Seidel Avenue and Bowleys Lane to the west. Adjacent neighborhoods are Glenham-Belford (north), Cedmont (northeast), Cedonia (east), Pulaski Industrial Area (south),

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(southwest), Orchard Ridge (southwest), Lower

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(southwest), Parkside (west), Belair-Edison (west),

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(northwest), Wilson Heights (northwest), and Waltherson (northwest). The unincorporated communities of Overlea and Rosedale in

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are also adjacent to Frankford to the east.

History

During the 19th century, the area around Belair Road and Moravia Road was a suburban neighborhood known as Gardenville which was inhabited by first- and second-generation

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and

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. The neighborhood's housing stock differed from those south of it, consisting of single-family homes rather than

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which were prevalent throughout the core of the Baltimore City. The Gardenville name is still used for some of the neighborhood's place names, for example, Gardenville Park and Ride is a connecting bus stop on Belair Road served by the

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. Today, Frankford has densified and some of what were once single-family houses have now been converted into multi-family units. The area remains predominantly residential with Belair Road along its edge serving as a retail corridor for the neighborhoods which converge along it.

Notable residents

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, mayor of Baltimore elected in 2020

Geography

History

Notable residents

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