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History. The first use of 3-1-1 for informational services was in Baltimore, Maryland, where the service commenced on 2 October 1996. 3-1-1 is intended to connect callers to a call center that can be the same as the 9-1-1 call center, but with 3-1-1 calls assigned a secondary priority, answered only when no 9-1-1 calls are waiting.
Baltimore was the origin of a major railroad workers' strike in 1877 when the B&O company attempted to lower wages. On July 20, 1877, Maryland Governor John Lee Carroll called up the 5th and 6th Regiments of the National Guard to end the strikes, which had disrupted train service at Cumberland in western Maryland.
US$ 4.86 billion (2022) Number of employees. 29,000. Website. www .umms .org. The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is a private, not-for-profit corporation founded in 1984 and based in Baltimore, Maryland. As of 2023, it owns and operates 11 hospitals in Maryland, 4 free-standing emergency rooms and over 150 care locations ...
Concentra Urgent Care, a Medical Group Practice located in Baltimore, MD. Find Providers by Specialty ... 1833 Portal St Baltimore, MD 21224 (410) 633-3600 . OVERVIEW;
The Portal. The Portal was a Baltimore LGBT community center for LGBT African Americans in the Baltimore, Maryland metropolitan area. [1] [2] It was owned and maintained by Empowering New Concepts, Inc. ENC, Inc. is a non-profit, 501 (c) (3) community based organization established in 2001 by current CEO Rickie Green. [3]
Baltimore County Public Library ( BCPL ), established in 1948, is a public library system located in central Maryland and headquartered in Towson, Maryland [4] [5] BCPL serves Baltimore County, Maryland, which surrounds but does not include the city of Baltimore. [6] Still, occasionally the two library systems share resources and expertise.
Baltimore [a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. With a population of 585,708 at the 2020 census, it is the 30th-most populous city in the United States. [15] Baltimore was designated an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland [b] in 1851, and is currently the most populous independent city in the nation.
In the 2010 census, about 20,000 Maryland residents, or 0.4% of the state, self-reported American Indian as their only race. More than 50,000 people in Maryland self-identified as being at least part American Indian, constituting 1.0% of the total state population.