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The Irish Shrine at Lemmon Street

Location: Railroad Historical District
Company name: Railroad Historical District Corp
Reservations: 410-669-8154
Length of tour: The first half of the tour takes about 1 1/2 hours. After a 45 minute lunch break, the second half of the tour goes to St. Peter's Cemetery, which is about a 15 minute drive from the B&O Railroad Museum.
Time: Call or visit Web site for times
Days: Saturdays begining October 3, 2002
Departure location: B&O Museum parking lot, (901 West Pratt Street)
Individual price: Free
Group price: Free
Web address: www.irishshrine.org

The Irish Shrine at Lemmon Street is a historic site that celebrates the history of the immense Irish presence in Southwest Baltimore City in the late 1840's. Currently under construction, this site consists of a group of 5 alley houses where the Irish immigrants who worked for the adjoining B&O Railroad lived. Two of the houses, 918 and 920 Lemmon St., will become the Irish Shrine and Railroad Workers Memorial, a self-guided interpretive site that will allow visitors to look into a furnished house and see how its original working class inhabitants lived.