Hamilton Hills is a
mixed-use
Mixed-use is a kind of urban development, urban design, urban planning and/or a zoning type that blends multiple uses, such as residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment, into one space, where those functions are to som ...
suburban
neighborhood located in the northeastern corner of
Baltimore City
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,
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
. Hamilton Hills represents a section of Hamilton, a larger historic area that includes other neighborhoods in Northeast Baltimore. The neighborhood's borders are
Old Harford Road
Old Harford Road, one of the oldest continuously used rights-of-way in central Maryland, United States, is a southwest–northeast thoroughfare in northeast Baltimore City and eastern Baltimore County.
Present-day Old Harford Road begins in the ...
and
Harford Road
Maryland Route 147 (MD 147) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Harford Road, the state highway runs from U.S. Route 1 (US 1) and US 40 Truck in Baltimore north to US 1 and US 1 Business in Benson. MD 147 is an alter ...
to the east, Echodale Avenue to the south,
Perring Parkway to the west and the
Baltimore County
Baltimore County ( , locally: or ) is the third-most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland and is part of the Baltimore metropolitan area. Baltimore County (which partially surrounds, though does not include, the independent City of ...
line to the north. The main thoroughfare in Hamilton Hills is Harford Road, which has been an integral part of the area's history.
The larger Hamilton area was sparsely populated until the late 18th century, the period when Harford Road was built. Hamilton began as a small, rural village surrounded by farmland during the 19th century. The land that became Hamilton Hills was a part of Baltimore County until 1918, when Baltimore City annexed it. Real estate developers arrived in the 20th century to build houses, and entrepreneurs formed a
main street corridor on Harford Road. The Hamilton area was described throughout the 20th century as a desirable, family-oriented suburb in Baltimore City. The community has experienced
White flight
White flight or white exodus is the sudden or gradual large-scale migration of white people from areas becoming more racially or ethnoculturally diverse. Starting in the 1950s and 1960s, the terms became popular in the United States. They refer ...
and been challenged by
urban decay
Urban decay (also known as urban rot, urban death or urban blight) is the sociological process by which a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude. There is no single process that leads to urban deca ...
since the end of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
. Residents in the 21st century have attempted to revive and protect Harford Road's main street economy as well as the reputation of the Hamilton area. Hamilton Hills was formalized in 2003 when the neighborhood association renamed the neighborhood.
Hamilton Hills' population in the 21st century has remained relatively stable compared to Baltimore's overall population decline. As of 2020, Hamilton Hills was the 5th largest neighborhood in the city by total population. Compared to Baltimore as a whole,
median household income
The median income is the income amount that divides a population into two equal groups, half having an income above that amount, and half having an income below that amount. It may differ from the mean (or average) income. Both of these are ways o ...
s among Hamilton Hills residents in the 2010s were higher,
life expectancy
Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, current age, and other demographic factors like sex. The most commonly used measure is life expectancy at birth ...
was longer, crime was lower, and voter participation was higher. Hamilton Hills residents have been more likely to graduate high school than all Baltimoreans but less likely to complete college.
Hamilton Hills is represented within the
Baltimore City Council's 3rd District. Elementary and middle school students are zoned into three public schools, and the neighborhood is served by three post offices and a public library branch. It has two
urban green space
In land-use planning, urban green space is open-space areas reserved for parks and other "green spaces", including plant life, water features -also referred to as blue spaces- and other kinds of natural environment. Most urban open spaces ar ...
s, one park, and a variety of cultural amenities.
History
Native American presence and European settlement
The
Susquehannock people controlled the area that became Baltimore City and Baltimore County as late as the 1640s.
They used the hilly, rugged terrain as hunting and trapping grounds, living instead to the north in the lower valley of the
Susquehanna River.
Beginning in 1634, the
Maryland Colony's first English settlers spread north into the Baltimore area from
St. Clement's Island in the Potomac River. These settlers gradually drove the Susquehannocks from the land, and they prevented other peoples such as the
Iroquois
The Iroquois ( or ), officially the Haudenosaunee ( meaning "people of the longhouse"), are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of First Nations peoples in northeast North America/ Turtle Island. They were known during the colonial years to ...
and the
Algonquians from claiming it.
The area that became Northeast Baltimore was sparsely populated in the 18th century. In 1734, the Principio Iron Company of England began acquiring land in the area for
pig iron production, much of which they exported to England. At the peak of their operations, the company owned 4,900 acres of land in Northeast Baltimore. They used
Herring Run to transport some of their goods on
barge
Barge nowadays generally refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion. The first modern barges were pulled by tugs, but nowadays most are pushed by pusher boats, or other vessels ...
s, and they likely stripped
natural resource
Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications. This includes the sources of valued characteristics such as commercial and industrial use, aesthetic value, scientific interest and cultural value. ...
s from the area that became Hamilton.
In 1780, during the
American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of t ...
, the
Maryland General Assembly
The Maryland General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland that convenes within the State House in Annapolis. It is a bicameral body: the upper chamber, the Maryland Senate, has 47 representatives and the lower chamber ...
passed an act to confiscate all British property in the state. This included Principio's land in Northeast Baltimore. Over time, wealthy merchants from Baltimore Town built large estates on some of it, and
truck farmers arrived to supply food for the region on other lots.
Harford Road
Maryland Route 147 (MD 147) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Harford Road, the state highway runs from U.S. Route 1 (US 1) and US 40 Truck in Baltimore north to US 1 and US 1 Business in Benson. MD 147 is an alter ...
was built as early as 1791 in part to provide these merchants and farmers with a trade route into Baltimore Town. After the City of Baltimore was incorporated in 1797, most of the Harford Road area remained in Baltimore County until the 20th century.
19th century
![Baltimore-Hamilton-Military-Map-1863](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Baltimore-Hamilton-Military-Map-1863.png)
Travelers complained in the early 19th century that
potholes made Harford Road almost impassable with a
horse and carriage
]
A horse and buggy (in American English) or horse and carriage (in British English and American English) refers to a light, simple, two-person carriage of the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, drawn usually by one or sometimes by two h ...
. In 1819, the road was
Privatization, privatized as a
toll road
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in exchange for its maintenance. A few connecting streets were built over the next few decades, and villages flourished around some popular crossroads. One such village became Hamilton's sister neighborhood of
Lauraville
Lauraville is a neighborhood in northeast Baltimore, Maryland. The neighborhood is bounded on the east by Maryland Route 147, Harford Road, on the north by Echodale Avenue, on the south by Argonne Drive and Herring Run Park, and on the west side b ...
.
During the mid and late 19th century, another village emerged on Harford Road between the intersections of
Old Harford Road
Old Harford Road, one of the oldest continuously used rights-of-way in central Maryland, United States, is a southwest–northeast thoroughfare in northeast Baltimore City and eastern Baltimore County.
Present-day Old Harford Road begins in the ...
and Tames Lane. This is the village that later became Hamilton, though it was called North Lauraville in its earliest years.
By the late 19th century, travelers in the region recognized North Lauraville as a rest stop and a center for horse and carriage supplies. Tames Lane ran from Harford Road to
Belair Road where Hamilton Avenue is today. It was named for the Tames brothers, who opened the village's first general store at the intersection with Harford Road. Other businesses supporting the horse and carriage market as well as local farmers were opened along Harford Road and Tames Lane.
In the late 19th century, a retired sea captain named Hamilton Caughey donated land for Baltimore County to extend Tames Lane west of Harford Road.
In exchange, Tames Lane was renamed Hamilton Lane and later Hamilton Avenue in his honor.
When the
United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the U ...
established a new post office at the intersection of Harford Road and Hamilton Lane, Baltimore Postmaster S. Davies Warfield renamed North Lauraville "Hamilton" to distinguish the village as a separate community.
In 1898, electric
rail service for passengers was extended north on Harford Road from downtown Baltimore and into Hamilton. The streetcar system allowed Hamilton residents to travel farther from home and to work in the city. As a result, suburban development in the area would explode over the next few decades.
20th century
From village to neighborhood
![Baltimore-Hamilton-5535-Harford-Road-1910](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Baltimore-Hamilton-5535-Harford-Road-1910.jpg)
After 1900,
real estate developers
Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of developed land or parcels to others. R ...
bought many of Hamilton's old estates and farms to
subdivide for new housing. In 1905, Evergreen Lawn became Hamilton's first subdivision on Evergreen Avenue.
Between 1900 and 1919, a total of ten subdivisions were built in Hamilton and marketed toward
middle-class families. Many of the area's present-day streets were named for its earliest residents or for historic properties.
As more residents moved to Hamilton during the early 20th century, they expanded the area's economic and communal activities. Retailers in various trades, from
drug stores to
dressmaking
A dressmaker, also known as a seamstress, is a person who makes custom clothing for women, such as dresses, blouses, and evening gowns. Dressmakers were historically known as mantua-makers, and are also known as a modiste or fabrician.
Not ...
, opened along Harford Road and Hamilton Avenue. The two-story Hamilton Hall building was constructed at the southeast corner of Harford Road and Hamilton Avenue to serve as a prominent
gathering place
A gathering place is any place where people are able to congregate. Gathering places may be public; for example, city streets, town squares, and parks; or private; for example, churches, coffee shops, stadiums, and theaters.
Examples of gatherin ...
. Between 1900 and 1930, a dozen Christian churches were founded on or near Harford Road, and six held their first meetings in Hamilton Hall. Two neighborhood associations, the Hamilton Improvement Association and the Hamilton Women's Club, were formed to advocate for social and structural improvements in the area.
In 1918, Baltimore City annexed land including Hamilton and what is today Northeast Baltimore from Baltimore County. The city granted substantial property tax breaks for residents and developers in its newly annexed communities. The city also extended its water, sewer, and other infrastructure systems to Hamilton in the years following annexation.
After annexation, Baltimore City began connecting its eastern and western halves with several lateral roads. Northern Parkway was the first; it was begun in 1926 and completed in the 1970s. Echodale Avenue was built in 1935. By the mid-1920s, Harford Road had also evolved from a dusty toll road to a public arterial road. These roads allowed Hamilton's residents to access the rest of the city more easily and vice versa.
Mid to late 20th century
Hamilton was described throughout the 20th century as a desirable, family-oriented suburb and was known for its main street corridor on Harford Road.
After another housing boom following
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
, most of the space available for residential stock had been developed. The last major housing push in Hamilton was the construction of apartment complexes near Northern Parkway and Perring Parkway, which occurred during the late 1960s and 1970s.
From the 1940s to the 1950s, Baltimore's city planners discontinued the electric streetcar system in favor of gasoline-powered automobiles.
General Motors,
Standard Oil, and
Firestone Tire
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is a tire company founded by Harvey Firestone (1868–1938) in 1900 initially to supply solid rubber side-wire tires for fire apparatus, and later, pneumatic tires for wagons, buggies, and other forms of wheele ...
influenced the conversion of the city's streetcars to buses, and Hamilton's rail service on Harford Road was discontinued on June 19, 1956. The conversion of Harford Road exclusively to automobiles impacted Hamilton's main street economy. Over time, retailers relocated elsewhere to accommodate shoppers at
strip mall
A strip mall, strip center or strip plaza is a type of shopping center common in North America where the stores are arranged in a row, with a sidewalk in front. Strip malls are typically developed as a unit and have large parking lots in front. ...
s and later at
shopping mall
A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refe ...
s.
Hamilton's characteristics changed during the latter half of the 20th century. The area became more of a pass-through community than a destination as its main street economy declined.
White residents began migrating away from Baltimore and from Hamilton as suburban communities emerged in surrounding counties. Following the
racial desegregation
Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups, usually referring to races. Desegregation is typically measured by the index of dissimilarity, allowing researchers to determine whether desegregation efforts are having impact o ...
of Baltimore's public schools in the 1950s and 1960s, the majority of public school students in the city and in the Hamilton area shifted from White to Black. Generally speaking, Hamilton evolved into a more mixed-race area after Baltimore's population peaked in the 1950s.
21st century
![Bmore Hamilton Harford](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Bmore_Hamilton_Harford.JPG)
To combat
urban decay
Urban decay (also known as urban rot, urban death or urban blight) is the sociological process by which a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude. There is no single process that leads to urban deca ...
in the Hamilton-Lauraville area, local advocates targeted the Harford Road corridor for revitalization during the 1990s and 2000s.
Hamilton-Lauraville Main Street, a
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...
, was founded with the support of the Baltimore Main Streets program.
The organization's mission is to provide "quality of life experiences that retain residents and attract new neighbors, and to create opportunities for local businesses".
Hamilton Lauraville Main Street has since hosted cultural events in the neighborhood and provided grants to businesses for improvements.
In 2000, the neighborhood association representing what became Hamilton Hills named the neighborhood Harford Echodale Perring Parkway (HEPP). In 2003, the association renamed the neighborhood Hamilton Hills, the name by which it is known today.
Hamilton, and Hamilton Hills by association, has been awarded in recent years for its desirability. In 2014, ''
The Baltimore Sun
''The Baltimore Sun'' is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the U.S. state of Maryland and provides coverage of local and regional news, events, issues, people, and industries.
Founded in 1837, it is currently owned by T ...
'' ranked Hamilton 3rd in its top ten up-and-coming places to live in the Baltimore region. In 2019, the real estate website
Redfin
Redfin Corporation, based in Seattle, operates a residential real estate brokerage in 95 markets in the United States and Canada and in other markets via partner/referral agents. Its business model includes charging home sellers below-average f ...
ranked Hamilton 4th in its top ten hottest affordable neighborhoods in the United States.
Geography
Hamilton Hills' borders have changed over time and, like many urban neighborhoods, have not always been clearly defined. The current borders are
Old Harford Road
Old Harford Road, one of the oldest continuously used rights-of-way in central Maryland, United States, is a southwest–northeast thoroughfare in northeast Baltimore City and eastern Baltimore County.
Present-day Old Harford Road begins in the ...
and
Harford Road
Maryland Route 147 (MD 147) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Harford Road, the state highway runs from U.S. Route 1 (US 1) and US 40 Truck in Baltimore north to US 1 and US 1 Business in Benson. MD 147 is an alter ...
to the east, Echodale Avenue to the south,
Perring Parkway to the west and the
Baltimore County
Baltimore County ( , locally: or ) is the third-most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland and is part of the Baltimore metropolitan area. Baltimore County (which partially surrounds, though does not include, the independent City of ...
line to the north.
Some city agencies and local research organizations continue to include Hamilton Hills in their data for Harford-Echodale-Perring-Parkway (HEPP), a neighborhood cluster that includes Hamilton Hills and the neighborhoods of North Harford Road,
Overlea,
Taylor Heights, and the section of Westfield west of Harford Road.
![Baltimore-Herring-Run-Woodbourne-Avenue-2021](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Baltimore-Herring-Run-Woodbourne-Avenue-2021.jpg)
The
terrain
Terrain or relief (also topographical relief) involves the vertical and horizontal dimensions of land surface. The term bathymetry is used to describe underwater relief, while hypsometry studies terrain relative to sea level. The Latin wo ...
in Hamilton Hills includes gently rolling hills that are characteristic of the
Piedmont
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, a
plateau
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region of the
Eastern United States
The Eastern United States, commonly referred to as the American East, Eastern America, or simply the East, is the region of the United States to the east of the Mississippi River. In some cases the term may refer to a smaller area or the East C ...
. Hamilton Hills'
elevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Ver ...
ranges from 250 feet (76 meters) above
sea level
Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical datuma standardise ...
at
Herring Run near Echodale Avenue to 365 feet (111 meters) near the intersection of Old Harford Road and Moore Avenue.
Soils in the neighborhood are generally
clay-like and moderately
fertile.
Hamilton Hills has a total area of 1.14 sq mi (3.0 km
2).
Data published in 2020 showed that it was the 8th largest of Baltimore's neighborhoods by total area.
Most of Hamilton Hills is land, though a thin section of
Herring Run, which flows just outside of the neighborhood's western border, passes through the southwest corner.
As of 2017, the total land area in HEPP covered by tree canopy was 29.6%, ranking 19th out of 55 neighborhood clusters in Baltimore.
Neighborhoods that are adjacent to Hamilton Hills include the community formerly known as Glenham-Belhar,
Lauraville
Lauraville is a neighborhood in northeast Baltimore, Maryland. The neighborhood is bounded on the east by Maryland Route 147, Harford Road, on the north by Echodale Avenue, on the south by Argonne Drive and Herring Run Park, and on the west side b ...
,
Loch Raven, North Harford Road,
Waltherson, and Westfield.
Parkville is another community north of Hamilton Hills across the Baltimore County line.
The campus of
Morgan State University
Morgan State University (Morgan State or MSU) is a public historically black research university in Baltimore, Maryland. It is the largest of Maryland's historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In 1867, the university, then known a ...
, which lies southwest of the neighborhood, can also be seen from some of the neighborhood's hills.
Demographics
According to data from the
United States Census, Hamilton Hills' population has remained relatively steady in the 21st century. In 2000, Hamilton Hills (then known as HEPP) had an estimated 9,679 residents.
By 2020, Hamilton Hills had an estimated 9,649 residents.
Data published in 2020 showed that Hamilton was the 5th largest of Baltimore's neighborhoods by total population.
Many of Hamilton Hills' White residents have moved out of the neighborhood during the 21st century, and Black residents have mostly replaced them. In 2000, about 58.5% (5,662) of residents were Black or African American alone, 38.0% (3,676) were White alone, 1.0% (95) were Asian alone, and 1.8% (171) were from two or more races.
About 1.6% (156) of all residents from all races were of Hispanic or Latino origin. By comparison, about 72.2% (6,962) of residents were Black or African American alone in 2020, 19.8% (1,914) were White alone, 3.4% (332) were some other race alone, and 4.2% (406) were from two or more races.
About 3.5% (339) of residents from all races were Hispanic or Latino.
Between 2000 and 2020, about 47.9% (1,762) of Hamilton Hills' White residents left the neighborhood.
This period of White flight has continued despite the arrivals of White
millennials into other areas of Baltimore.
About 55.4% (5,225) of Hamilton Hills residents were female as of 2019 and 44.6% (4,199) were male.
The estimated median age of Hamilton Hills residents as of 2019 was 35.2 years old (33.8 for females, 40.4 for males).
This was similar to the estimated median age of 35.4 years for all Baltimoreans as of the same year.
About 6.6% (620) of residents were under 5 years old,
which was similar to 6.4% for all Baltimoreans.
The estimated
median household income
The median income is the income amount that divides a population into two equal groups, half having an income above that amount, and half having an income below that amount. It may differ from the mean (or average) income. Both of these are ways o ...
of residents as of 2019 was $57,100.
This was higher than the estimated median household income of $50,400 for all of Baltimore.
About 19.1% of Hamilton Hills households had received some form of
cash assistance or
SNAP benefits
In the United States, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is a federal program that provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people. It is a federal aid program, ad ...
within the past year compared to 25.0% citywide.
Hamilton Hills had fewer vacant housing units and more
homeowners
Home insurance, also commonly called homeowner's insurance (often abbreviated in the US real estate industry as HOI), is a type of property insurance that covers a private residence. It is an insurance policy that combines various personal insura ...
in 2020 than Baltimore as a whole. The neighborhood had an estimated 4,463 housing units as of that year, 6.3% (280) of which were vacant.
This was lower than the citywide vacancy percentage of 16.6%.
About 56.9% (5,358) of the neighborhood's residents also lived in owner-occupied housing as of 2019, and 43.1% (4,055) were renters. By comparison, about 51.0% of Baltimoreans lived in owner-occupied housing and 49.0% were renters.
Health
![Good Samaritan Hospital (Baltimore)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Good_Samaritan_Hospital_%28Baltimore%29.jpg)
Between 2011 and 2015, the
life expectancy
Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, current age, and other demographic factors like sex. The most commonly used measure is life expectancy at birth ...
of residents born in HEPP was 75.7 years compared to 73.6 years for all Baltimoreans.
The leading causes of death in HEPP during that period were
heart disease (25.8% of deaths) and
cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal b ...
(23.5%).
HEPP ranked 3rd out of 55 neighborhood clusters in Baltimore for deaths from
breast cancer
Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipple, a newly inverted nipple, or a r ...
, representing 3.0% of the area's deaths compared to 1.5% for the entire city.
Between 2011 and 2015, the
birth rate
The birth rate for a given period is the total number of live human births per 1,000 population divided by the length of the period in years. The number of live births is normally taken from a universal registration system for births; populati ...
per 1,000 females in HEPP was lower (13.6) compared to that of all female Baltimoreans (14.3).
The
teen birth rate per 1,000 females in Hamilton Hills ages 15 to 19 (27.3) was also lower than that of all Baltimoreans from the same group (42.3).
The
infant mortality rate was also lower in HEPP: about 2.6 out of 1,000 infants born in HEPP died before the first birthdays, compared to 10.6 deaths among all of Baltimore's infants.
Hamilton Hills' nearest hospital is
MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, a
private,
not-for-profit teaching hospital
A teaching hospital is a hospital or medical centre that provides medical education and training to future and current health professionals. Teaching hospitals are almost always affiliated with one or more universities and are often co-located ...
located at 5601 Loch Raven Boulevard in Loch Raven.
Crime and safety
The
Baltimore Police Department serves Hamilton Hills in its Northeastern District.
The district's headquarters is located at 1900 Argonne Drive next to the campus of Morgan State University.
In 2019, Hamilton Hills residents reported 284
property crime
Property crime is a category of crime, usually involving private property, that includes, among other crimes, burglary, larceny, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, shoplifting, and vandalism. Property crime is a crime to obtain money, property, o ...
s and 210
violent crime
A violent crime, violent felony, crime of violence or crime of a violent nature is a crime in which an offender or perpetrator uses or threatens to use harmful force upon a victim. This entails both crimes in which the violent act is the objecti ...
s for a total of 494 crimes.
Between 2014 and 2019, the total annual crimes reported in the neighborhood decreased by 14.5%, from 578 to 494, mostly because of a decrease in reported property crimes.
In 2019, there were 30.1 property crimes and 22.3 violent crimes reported for every 1,000 Hamilton Hills residents.
These rates were lower than those for Baltimore City as a whole for the same year, which were 42.2 property crimes and 33.8 violent crimes reported for every 1,000 Baltimoreans.
The Fourth Battalion of the
Baltimore City Fire Department
The Baltimore City Fire Department (BCFD) provides fire protection and emergency medical services to the city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1797 and established in 1859, the Baltimore City Fire Department covers an area of o ...
provides fire protection to Hamilton Hills.
Engine Company 56, the closest fire station to most of the neighborhood, is located at 6512 Harford Road in Westfield.
Engine Company 42, Medic 6 is located to the south at 4522 Harford Road in Lauraville.
Culture
![Baltimore-Hamilton-Live-Love-Hamilton-Mural-2020](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Baltimore-Hamilton-Live-Love-Hamilton-Mural-2020.jpg)
Art is present throughout the Hamilton-Lauraville area and in Hamilton Hills.
The neighborhood features several murals through the support of the Baltimore Mural Program. Many of Hamilton Hills' restaurants also feature live music. In addition, several of Hamilton Hills' establishments foster arts and entertainment, including Chapterhouse Tattoo, the Hamilton Arts Collective, Hamiltone Music, the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Performing Arts, and the Strand Theater.
The Hamilton Lauraville Main Street organization has hosted cultural events for the Hamilton-Lauraville area throughout the 21st century.
For example, they have organized
First Friday events along Harford Road. In 2010, they began sponsoring the Downhill Derby, an annual
soap box derby
The Soap Box Derby is a youth soapbox car racing program which has been run in the United States since 1933. World Championship finals are held each July at Derby Downs in Akron, Ohio. Cars competing in this and related events are unpowered, ...
in Hamilton Hills.
The quality of the restaurants along the Harford Road corridor has been recognized in food media since the late 20th century. In 2019, a dining reporter for ''The Baltimore Sun'' described the Hamilton-Lauraville area as "Baltimore's low-key
foodie
A foodie is a person who has an ardent or refined interest in food, and who eats food not only out of hunger but also as a hobby. The related terms " gastronome" and "gourmet" define roughly the same thing, i.e. a person who enjoys food for plea ...
neighborhood". Clementine, a
farm-to-table
Farm-to-table (or farm-to-fork, and in some cases farm-to-school) is a social movement which promotes serving local food at restaurants and school cafeterias, preferably through direct acquisition from the producer (which might be a winery, brewer ...
restaurant that closed in 2017, was featured on an episode of the
Food Network
Food Network is an American basic cable channel owned by Television Food Network, G.P., a joint venture and general partnership between Warner Bros. Discovery Networks (which holds a 69% ownership stake of the network) and Nexstar Media Group ( ...
series ''
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives''.
Excluding apartments, most housing units in Hamilton Hills are
single-family detached houses or
semi-detached houses with front porches and large yards.
Because many houses in Hamilton-Lauraville were built with ample yard space, hundreds of
urban gardeners and farmers live in the area. As of 2021, one active group created for gardeners in Hamilton-Lauraville on
Facebook
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had over 1,000 members.
Parks and recreation
![Baltimore-North-Harford-Park-Playground-2021](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Baltimore-North-Harford-Park-Playground-2021.jpg)
The Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks manages the majority of parks and recreational facilities in Baltimore. The agency manages Hamilton Hills' North Harford Park, which provides athletic fields and other recreational facilities at 6800 Hamlet Avenue. Hamilton Hills also has two
urban green space
In land-use planning, urban green space is open-space areas reserved for parks and other "green spaces", including plant life, water features -also referred to as blue spaces- and other kinds of natural environment. Most urban open spaces ar ...
s: HEPP Park, a four-acre (0.02 km
2)
woodland
A woodland () is, in the broad sense, land covered with trees, or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the ''plurale tantum'' woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (se ...
area located at 2399 Pinewood Avenue; and the section of Herring Run that flows south into Herring Run Park.
Political and civic participation
Voter registration and voting in general elections have been more frequent in Hamilton Hills compared to all of Baltimore. As of 2018, 85.7% of adults 18 years or older in HEPP were registered to vote.
This was higher than the 81.3% of adults who were registered across all of Baltimore.
In elections between 2010 and 2018, an average of 49.8% of adults 18 years or older in HEPP voted in general elections.
This was also higher than the percentage for all of Baltimore, as an average of 45.1% of the city's adults voted in general elections during the same period.
Hamilton Hills residents have formed several
neighborhood association
A neighborhood association (NA) is a group of residents or property owners who advocate to organize activities within a neighborhood. An association may have elected leaders and voluntary dues.
Some neighborhood associations in the United States ...
s since the early 1900s. The Hamilton Hills Neighborhood Association, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is the present-day group of volunteers who organize and advocate for Hamilton Hills' residents.
Notable people
Notable residents of the Hamilton area have included:
*
Munro Leaf
Wilbur Monroe Leaf ( Munro Leaf) (December 4, 1905 – December 21, 1976) was an American writer of children's literature who wrote and illustrated nearly 40 books during his 40-year career. He is best known for ''The Story of Ferdinand'' (1936), ...
(1905–1976), an author and illustrator of children's books. He is best known for creating the character
Ferdinand the Bull
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.
*
E. Ruth Hedeman (1910–2006), a solar astronomer. She published research on
solar cycle
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s and
solar particle event
In solar physics, a solar particle event (SPE), also known as a solar energetic particle (SEP) event or solar radiation storm, is a solar phenomenon which occurs when particles emitted by the Sun, mostly protons, become accelerated either in th ...
s.
*
Toots Barger (1913–1998), a national
duckpin bowling
Duckpin bowling is a variation of the sport of bowling.
Duckpin balls are in (12 cm) to 5 in (12.7 cm) in diameter, weigh 3 lb 6 oz (1.5 kg) to 3 lb 12 oz (1.7 kg) each, and lack finger holes. They are thus signific ...
champion and the second woman to be inducted into the
Maryland State Athletic Hall of Fame.
*
Sebastian Russo
Sebastian Russo (15 November 1924 – 27 February 1981) was a primary care physician from Baltimore, Maryland. He was murdered in his office in February 1981, and his case remains unsolved. After his death, he was declared "the last of the $5 doct ...
(1924–1981), a
primary care physician
A primary care physician (PCP) is a physician who provides both the first contact for a person with an undiagnosed health concern as well as continuing care of varied medical conditions, not limited by cause, organ system, or diagnosis. The term ...
who was shot and killed in his office on the 5100 block of Harford Road (now part of Lauraville).
The wrought iron clock at the southwest corner of Harford Road and Hamilton Avenue was erected in his honor.
*
Lou Grasmick (1924–2016), a businessman, philanthropist, and
professional baseball
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Modern professional ...
pitcher
In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...
in
Major League Baseball
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(MLB).
*
Jack Scarbath
John Carl Scarbath (August 12, 1930December 6, 2020) was a professional American football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins and Pittsburgh Steelers. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fam ...
(1930–2020), a professional
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...
quarterback
The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive platoon and mostly line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern Ame ...
in the
National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ...
(NFL).
*
Matthew Porterfield
Matthew "Matt" Porterfield (born October 6, 1977) is an American independent filmmaker. He has made four feature films to date, ''Hamilton'' (2006), '' Putty Hill'' (2011), '' I Used to Be Darker'' (2013) and ''Sollers Point'' (2017). ''Putty Hi ...
(1977–), an
independent
Independent or Independents may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups
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* Independ ...
filmmaker
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. He wrote and directed the 2006 drama film ''
Hamilton Hamilton may refer to:
People
* Hamilton (name), a common British surname and occasional given name, usually of Scottish origin, including a list of persons with the surname
** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland
** Lord Hamilt ...
'', which is set in the Hamilton area.
Government
![Corner of Harford Rd and Northern Pkwy on a Sunday Morning](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Corner_of_Harford_Rd_and_Northern_Pkwy_on_a_Sunday_Morning.jpg)
Baltimore is legislated by its
City Council
A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, rural counc ...
, which has 14 members elected by district and a president elected at-large.
Hamilton Hills is represented within the 3rd council district.
The neighborhood's current councilperson is Ryan Dorsey, who was elected to his first four-year term in 2016 and re-elected in 2020.
The
Maryland General Assembly
The Maryland General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland that convenes within the State House in Annapolis. It is a bicameral body: the upper chamber, the Maryland Senate, has 47 representatives and the lower chamber ...
, which is the
state legislature of Maryland, is divided into the
Maryland Senate
The Maryland Senate, sometimes referred to as the Maryland State Senate, is the upper house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland. Composed of 47 senators elected from an equal number of constituent single-m ...
and the
Maryland House of Delegates
The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the legislature of the State of Maryland. It consists of 141 delegates elected from 47 districts. The House of Delegates Chamber is in the Maryland State House on State Circle in Annapolis, ...
. Hamilton Hills is represented within the
43rd district and the
45th district of the Senate, as well as the
43rd district and the
45th district of the House of Delegates.
In the
U.S. House of Representatives, Hamilton Hills is represented north of Northern Parkway within
Maryland's 3rd congressional district
Maryland's 3rd congressional district comprises portions of Baltimore, Howard, Montgomery, and Anne Arundel counties, as well as a significant part of the independent city of Baltimore. The seat is currently represented by John Sarbanes, a Dem ...
and south of Northern Parkway within
Maryland's 7th congressional district
Maryland's 7th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives encompasses just over half of the city of Baltimore, most of the majority-black precincts of Baltimore County, and the majority of Howard County. The district ...
.
John Sarbanes
John Peter Spyros Sarbanes ( ; born May 22, 1962) is an American lawyer and politician who is the U.S. representative for , serving since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes the state capital of Annapolis, central p ...
has represented the 3rd district since 2007.
Kweisi Mfume
Kweisi Mfume ( ; born Frizzell Gerald Gray; October 24, 1948) is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for Maryland's 7th congressional district, first serving from 1987 to 1996 and again since 2020. A member of the Democratic ...
previously represented the 7th district from 1987 to 1996.
He was re-elected in May 2020 following the death of
Elijah Cummings
Elijah Eugene Cummings (January 18, 1951October 17, 2019) was an American politician and civil rights advocate who served in the United States House of Representatives for from 1996 until his death in 2019, when he was succeeded by his predecess ...
in October 2019.
Education
As of 2019, Hamilton Hills had a higher percentage of high school graduates than Baltimore as a whole but lower percentages of college graduates. About 90.5% (6,285) of Hamilton Hills' adults 25 years of age or older had at least a high school diploma or equivalent compared to 85.2% for the entire city.
College completion rates were lower among Hamilton Hills residents. About 5.9% (407) of adults 25 years of age or older had associate degrees as of 2019, 15.4% (1,069) had bachelor's degrees, and 12.5% (870) had graduate or professional degrees.
This was in comparison to all of Baltimore City, in which an estimated 4.8% of adults 25 years of age or older had associate degrees, 16.8% had bachelor's degrees, and 15.1% had graduate or professional degrees.
Schools
Baltimore offers students in pre-kindergarten, middle school, and high school the choice to attend any school in the city.
Elementary students generally enroll in the schools zoned by area but can apply to the city's
charter schools.
In Hamilton Hills, students are zoned by default into three schools from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade.
These are operated by
Baltimore City Public Schools
Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS), also referred to as Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS) or City Schools, is a public school district in the city of Baltimore, state of Maryland, United States. It serves the youth of Baltimore Cit ...
, the city's public
school district
A school district is a special-purpose district that operates local public primary and secondary schools in various nations.
North America United States
In the U.S, most K–12 public schools function as units of local school districts, wh ...
.
*Hamilton Elementary/Middle School is located at 6101 Old Harford Road in Hamilton Hills. The school enrolls students in pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Elementary and middle students south of Northern Parkway attend this school.
A total of 865 students were enrolled at this school in 2019.
Of these, 78.6% (680) were Black, 7.1% (61) were Hispanic or Latino, and 9.7% (84) were White.
*Woodhome Elementary/Middle School is located at 7300 Moyer Avenue in the North Harford Road neighborhood. The school enrolls students in pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Elementary and middle school students near Old Harford Road north of Northern Parkway attend this school.
A total of 387 students were enrolled at this school in 2019.
Of these, 80.4% (311) were Black, 5.7% (22) were Hispanic or Latino, and 10.1% (39) were White.
*Yorkwood Elementary School is located at 5931 Yorkwood Road in Loch Raven. The school enrolls students in pre-kindergarten through 5th grade. Elementary students north of Northern Parkway and near Perring Parkway attend this school.
A total of 418 students were enrolled at this school in 2019.
Of these, 95.2% (398) were Black and 2.9% (12) were Hispanic or Latino.
Two public high schools are also located in Hamilton Hills.
*
Reginald F. Lewis High School
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is located at 6401 Pioneer Drive. The school enrolls students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment is subject to a choice lottery, meaning if more students select the school than it can serve, students are selected by lottery.
A total of 541 students were enrolled at this school in 2019.
Of these, 82.6% (452) were Black, 12.8% (69) were Hispanic or Latino, and 1.8% (10) were White.
*Success Academy is an alternative placement high school located at 2201 Pinewood Avenue. The school enrolls students in grades 9 through 12 with
special needs
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.
Library
The
Enoch Pratt Free Library
The Enoch Pratt Free Library is the free public library system of Baltimore, Maryland. Its Central Library and office headquarters are located on 400 Cathedral Street (southbound) and occupy the northeastern three quarters of a city block bounded ...
system operates the Hamilton Branch Library at 5910 Harford Road.
The Hamilton area was previously served by the
Old Hamilton Library, which opened at Hamilton and Richard Avenues in December 1920.
After a housing boom following World War II, the larger Hamilton Branch building was constructed and opened in January 1959.
In 2018, about 19.3% of HEPP residents had library cards, ranking 49th out of 55 neighborhood clusters in Baltimore.
This was lower than the estimated average of 27.8% across Baltimore's neighborhoods for the same year.
Postal service
The
United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the U ...
(USPS) uses three
ZIP Codes in Hamilton Hills: 21214, 21234, and 21239. They operate three post offices that serve the neighborhood:
*The Hamilton Post Office is located at 4901 Harford Road.
They deliver mail within the 21214 ZIP Code, which covers most of Hamilton Hills, and the 21239 ZIP Code, which covers the Barclay Square Apartments complex near Herring Run.
*The Northwood Post Office is located at 1800 E Northern Parkway in Loch Raven.
They deliver mail within the 21214 and 21234 ZIP Codes, including blocks in the north and west sections of the neighborhood.
*The Parkville Post Office is located at 8201 Harford Road in Parkville.
They deliver mail within the 21234 ZIP Code, including some blocks north of Northern Parkway and near Old Harford Road.
Infrastructure
Transportation
Hamilton Business District Streetscape
In 2019, the Baltimore City Department of Transportation installed separated
bike lane
Bike lanes (US) or cycle lanes (UK) are types of bikeways (cycleways) with lanes on the roadway for cyclists only. In the United Kingdom, an on-road cycle-lane can be firmly restricted to cycles (marked with a solid white line, entry by motor ...
s, floating
bus stops, and more
main street parking along Harford Road between White Avenue and Echodale Avenue. The changes were part of a $400,000 Hamilton Business District Streetscape project that reduced the number of traffic
lane
In road transport, a lane is part of a roadway that is designated to be used by a single line of vehicles to control and guide drivers and reduce traffic conflicts. Most public roads (highways) have at least two lanes, one for traffic in each ...
s for cars from four to three.
They also represented Baltimore's testing of the
Complete Streets
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urban design model, the placement of Harford Road on a "
road diet
A road diet, also called a lane reduction, road rechannelization, or road conversion is a technique in transportation planning whereby the number of travel lanes and/or effective width of the road is reduced in order to achieve systemic improveme ...
", and an expansion of the city's
cycling infrastructure.
Bus and rail
The
Maryland Transit Authority's public bus
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History of buses Origins
While there are indications ...
service operates LocalLink Routes 30, 33,
36, and 54, and ExpressLink Route 154 through Hamilton Hills. These routes travel east and west along Northern Parkway and northeast to southwest along Harford Road. The agency also operates its
MobilityLink service in the neighborhood, providing
paratransit
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for riders who are unable to use Baltimore's buses or trains.
Rail service for passengers has not been present in Hamilton Hills since June 16, 1956, when Harford Road's electric rail service was converted to bus service. As of October 2020, the MTA had no plans to include Hamilton in their future rail services. The
Green Line, which the MTA proposed in 2002 as part of a broader Baltimore Region Rail System Plan, would have included a stop in Hamilton Hills.
Roads and highways
Harford Road
Maryland Route 147 (MD 147) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Harford Road, the state highway runs from U.S. Route 1 (US 1) and US 40 Truck in Baltimore north to US 1 and US 1 Business in Benson. MD 147 is an alter ...
, or Maryland Route 147, has been an integral part of the neighborhood's history. It is a state highway that runs 18.8 miles (30.3 km) from North Avenue in Baltimore to
Bel Air, the county seat of Harford County.
The section of Harford Road that runs through Hamilton Hills forms part of the neighborhood's eastern border and is 0.5 miles long (0.8 km).
In January 2019, the Baltimore City Department of Transportation
counted that about 700 motor vehicles passed southbound between White Avenue and Echodale Avenue during the peak AM hour, and about 600 motor vehicles passed northbound during the peak PM hour. Harford Road also connects drivers to
Interstate 695 via a junction in Parkville.
Perring Parkway, or Maryland Route 41, is another state highway that runs through Hamilton Hills.
It runs 6.8 miles (10.9 km) and begins at Harford Road in the
Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello neighborhood as Hillen Road.
It then continues north to Waltham Woods Road in
Carney.
The section of Perring Parkway that runs through Hamilton Hills forms the neighborhood's western border and is 1.3 miles long (2.1 km).
Perring Parkway is another road that connects drivers to
Interstate 695 via its junction in Carney.
A few other major roads run through Hamilton Hills.
Old Harford Road
Old Harford Road, one of the oldest continuously used rights-of-way in central Maryland, United States, is a southwest–northeast thoroughfare in northeast Baltimore City and eastern Baltimore County.
Present-day Old Harford Road begins in the ...
, which forms the other part of the neighborhood's eastern border, connects residents to Hamilton Elementary/Middle School, the Hamilton Branch of the Enoch Pratt Library, and some of the neighborhood's churches.
Northern Parkway runs east to west across the city, connecting
Liberty Heights Avenue in Northwest Baltimore to Belair Road in
Overlea.
Echodale Avenue, which forms the neighborhood's southern border, is part of a route that connects York Road to Belair Road. Hamilton Avenue, the road for which the Hamilton area was named, connects Harford Road to Belair Road north of Echodale Avenue.
Utilities
Electric power and
natural gas
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are provided to Hamilton Hills by
Baltimore Gas and Electric
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(BGE), a
public utility company
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that serves the
Baltimore metropolitan area
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and all of Baltimore.
Water and sewer services are provided by the Baltimore City Department of Public Works (DPW).
Hamilton Hills receives water as a part of the DPW's Eastern Third Zone.
The DPW pumps water from several sources to the neighborhood via its Ashburton and
Lake Montebello filtration plants.
The DPW provides curbside collection of
garbage,
recycling
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, and
yard waste
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in Hamilton Hills.
The agency also fulfills a variety of neighborhood cleaning and greening requests through Baltimore's
3-1-1
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municipal service system.
References
Bibliography
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External links
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Hamilton Hills Neighborhood AssociationHamilton Lauraville Main Street programLive Baltimore neighborhood profile for Hamilton HillsThe weather forecast for Hamilton Hills
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