Washington Hill (Baltimore, Maryland)

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Most of Washington Hill's early development dates to the years just following the American Civil War. Jewish immigrants from Germany and Russia built homes along with Appalachian migrants, Irish Americans and Polish Americans. While some of the neighborhood did meet the wrecking ball, parts of Washington Hill were saved from 1970s era urban renewal projects by citizen protest. It contains many large homes lining Broadway Street that once housed some of Baltimore's wealthiest residents.

Today the community is more economically diverse, with the Douglass and Perkins Homes public housing projects at its north and south ends, and a number of luxury apartments and condominiums. Racially, there is a mix of African Americans, an increasing number of White Americans, and a growing Hispanic community. Mexican American day laborers congregate in the neighborhood and in Upper Fells Point (although most of the Latinos in the area are of Central American, especially Honduran, extraction).

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