James B. Baker House

Historical marker location:

452 West Bel Air Avenue, Aberdeen, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from West Bel Air Avenue (Maryland Route 132) west of Baker Street, on the left when traveling west.)

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Maryland was a border state during the Civil War: During the Civil War, Maryland was a border state that remained in the Union but had many sympathizers with the Confederacy. The state was strategically important because it was located between Washington D.C. and the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.