Historic Fells Point Trail: Broadway Market

Be Here Stories

This tour of Fells Point Historic Trail is created by The Baltimore National Heritage Area (BNHA), which promotes, preserves, and enhances Baltimore's historic and cultural legacy and natural resources for current and future generations. A walking tour of this and other destinations is available at www.explorebaltimore.org/tours. Located at 1640 Aliceanna Street Transcript: If all this walking has made you hungry, you're in the right place. The Broadway Market has several lunch counters where you can grab a bite, and it is the oldest continuously operating public market in the country. Established in 1784, people have come to this market for centuries to get food for their families. Years ago, livestock was also sold here. Farmers would ferry their animals over, or bring them by wagon, and weigh them on a big platform right in front of buyers. Though these buildings are clearly not the originals, the footprint from the first market is more or less what you see today. The North Building was built around 1864, and originally had a second story where people would gather for social and civic events. That second story was taken down in the 1960s after a fire, but there are plans to reconstruct it.