Fell's Point
About
Fell's Point is a historic waterfront neighborhood in the southeastern area of the City of Baltimore, in Maryland, along the north shore of the Baltimore Harbor and the Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River. Home to a variety of shops, antique stores, restaurants, coffee bars, music stores, a municipal markethouse with a variety of individual stalls and over 120 pubs. Located just east of the famous "Inner Harbor" (formerly "The Basin") adjacent to Baltimore's downtown central business district and the Jones Falls stream (which splits the city), Fell's Point is famous for its maritime past and air of a seafaring town, it also now boasts the greatest concentration of drinking establishments in the city. The pubs, taverns and bars in Fell's Point provide excellent entertainment, socialization, music and nightlife. This waterfront community is a much-visited location by thousands of tourists, conventioneers and visitors to Baltimore, and is accessible by "water taxi" barges, expressway/interstate highways, local streets and boulevards and several municipal/state transit bus lines. The neighborhood has also been historically the home of large immigrant populations of German, Polish, and other East European nationalities such as Ukrainians, Russians, Czech/Bohemians, and Slovaks, along with Irish, throughout its 250 year-old history. In recent years since the 1970s, a steadily increasing numbers of middle to upper middle income residents have moved into the area "gentrifying" the neighborhood by restoring and preserving historic homes and businesses, driving up property values, but increasing the safety of the neighborhood and raising the educational and social levels. Upper Fell's Point to the north along Broadway has gained a sizable Hispanic population, made up primarily of recent waves since the 1980s of Mexican and Central American immigrants and is sometimes now called "Spanish Town". Fell's Point is one of several areas in and around Baltimore that are listed on the National Register of Historic Districts, and the first from Maryland, along with being one of the first registered historic districts in the United States to combine two separate waterfront communities (along with Federal Hill to the southwest across the Patapsco River and the Harbor on the "Old South Baltimore" peninsula of "Whetstone Point" at Fort McHenry).[2][3]
