Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park

In 2006 Living Classrooms Foundation will open the Frederick Douglass - Isaac Myers Maritime Park on the Fells Point waterfront at the historic Chase's Wharf. The Frederick Douglass - Isaac Myers Maritime Park will become a center for learning about and experiencing our region's fascinating history, which is deeply connected to its maritime past. As the first multicultural heritage tourism and education site on Baltimore's Harbor, the Maritime Park will celebrate African-American history, bring our region's maritime past to life, exemplify a commitment to the education and empowerment of disadvantaged and at-risk youth, and be a destination for tourists from around the country and the world.

The $12 million project includes the restoration of the oldest remaining industrial building on the waterfront, the construction of the new Weinberg Education Center and the recreation of the first marine shipyard and marine railway operated by African-Americans. The Maritime Park will honor Frederick Douglass, who lived in Baltimore and worked in the maritime trades; Isaac Myers, who founded the shipyard and the first black maritime unions, and other African-American leaders of the past and present and will be a major African-American heritage site.