In honor of Black History Month, Living Classrooms Foundation has announced that on Saturday, Feb. 7, 14, and 28, admission to the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park will be free.
The Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park honors the legacy of shipbuilding and Baltimore’s working waterfront. The park pays tribute to African American maritime and cultural history while preserving one of Baltimore’s oldest industrial waterfront buildings, the Sugar/Coffee House.
The second floor of the Maritime Park’s museum chronicles the lives of Frederick Douglass as an enslaved child and young man and Isaac Myers, a free born African American who became a national leader. The Shipyard Gallery has historic items used in ship building and the maritime industry. The third floor Founders Room highlights the founders of the original shipyard.
The park, located at 1417 Thames Street in Fells Point, is a national heritage site celebrating the contributions of African Americans in the development of Baltimore’s maritime industry. This includes critical pieces of the industry, like the Chesapeake Marine Railway and Dry Dock Company, the nation’s first African American-owned and operated shipyard, established in 1868.
The Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park is a Living Classrooms Foundation campus and headquarters. For more information, visit Living Classrooms Foundation’s website.
