USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Port of Baltimore offers the deepest harbor in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay. Closer to the Midwest than any other East Coast port, the Port in Baltimore City also is within an overnight drive of one-third of the nation’s population.

Detailed explanation-2: -Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore is located along the shores and branches of the Patapsco River and is one of the largest ports in the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -But the story of Baltimore’s port is actually older than Baltimore itself. In 1706-two decades before the founding of Baltimore-Maryland’s colonial legislators designated Whetstone Point, near where Fort McHenry now sits, as an official port of entry for the state’s tobacco trade with England.

Detailed explanation-4: -Baltimore, city, north-central Maryland, U.S., about 40 miles (65 km) northeast of Washington, D.C. It lies at the head of the Patapsco River estuary, 15 miles (25 km) above Chesapeake Bay.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Port of Baltimore lies above the Chesapeake Bay at the head of the Patapsco River Estuary in the State of Maryland in the United States.