For a couple of months, Baltimore was the capital of the newly minted United States and where the CFG Bank Arena currently stands, history dramatically unfolded in 1776.
On a recent Sunday morning, sitting on a bench in Hopkins Plaza downtown, Jefferson Gray painted a picture of what Baltimore was like in 1776.
“At that time Baltimore was what you can think of as a raw, new unpolished city,” Gray said.
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