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Jonestown: Exploring Baltimore’s Neighborhoods

Jonestown: Exploring Baltimore’s Neighborhoods

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Ask anyone in Baltimore where the Shot Tower is and they likely can tell you, but many wouldn’t be able to name the neighborhood.

If locals can’t identify Jonestown, boosters wonder how tourists will find the neighborhood north of Little Italy that’s home to several landmarks and historic homes. Even Baltimore’s tourist maps overlook the area, colorfully highlighting such nearby destinations as the Inner Harbor, Federal Hill, Harbor East, Fells Point and Canton, while leaving Jonestown and other areas in a drab gray.

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Reservoir Hill: Exploring Baltimore’s Neighborhoods

Reservoir Hill: Exploring Baltimore’s Neighborhoods

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By this time next year, Reservoir Hill could have not one, but two small neighborhood cafes — a new step for a neighborhood tagged “up-and-coming” for more than 20 years.

Last month, a family of out-of-state transplants signed a lease to open a coffee shop on Madison Avenue, hoping for an October launch. Farther east on Whitelock Street, the owners of The Bun Shop in Mount Vernon are exploring plans for a soup-and-sandwich place at Tune Up City, a former auto shop.

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