The
Empty Century, 1609-1729
Abroad during these
years the Taj Mahal is completed, John Milton writes Paradise Lost, and Pompeii
is unearthed.
Baltimore's
beginnings looked unpromising. Ironically, the Indian name for its river, Patapsco,
meant a backwater. And the names [John] Smith and [David] Jones, discoverers of
the site, lack glamour. Hereabouts tobacco planters tilled the land that
originally Charles I had granted to the Calverts, Lords Baltimore, proprietors
of Maryland.
