Curtis Bay
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Curtis Bay is a neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The neighborhood is located in a highly industrialized waterfornt area in the southern part of the city, and receives its name from the body of water in which it sits. Curtis Bay also offers a variety of housing, townhouses, rowhouses, individual homes. Great affordable homes available. The view from atop the 1500 block of Cypress Street of the Curtis Bay Harbor is magnificent.
An important local landmark originally part of the early Waverly community still exists in Abell. The Huntington Baptist Church, at the northwest corner of 31st Street and Barclay Avenue, was founded in 1836 as a small Sabbath school for convalescent soldiers. Throughout the early 1800s men from Ft. McHenry were moved to the higher and healthier atmosphere of the Abell area, near the intersection of Old and New York Roads, to escape the threat of malaria. Occasionally, convalescing soldiers from the barracks would attend Baptist services in private homes of the neighborhood. A Sabbath school was established nearby in an old barracks building in 1836. Alternate visiting ministers preached weekly sermons for soldiers and a few civilians. In 1846 James Wilson, a large landowner in the area, erected a small chapel which he called the Huntington Baptist Church. The congregation grew steadily until it required a new building in 1873. Modeled after Talmage’s Tabernacle in Brooklyn, it was covered with corrugated iron plates. In service for fifty years, the old tabernacle landmark was replaced in 1922 with the present church.