or the Monumental City. Baltimore.
1834. The distant rumbling of wheels upon the pavements and the dense clouds of black smoke which seemed to be hanging in the heavens but a short distance ahead, announced that they were soon to enter the monumental city.—Caruthers, ‘The Kentuckian in New-York,’ i. 32 (N.Y.).
1835. Baltimore, “the city of Monuments,” snugly sheltered within its deep bay, and rising from an oblong basin of the Patapsco toward the amphitheatre of wooded hills on the west, you marvel to hear how, from a period of time within the memory of some yet living, the small village of a dozen houses has sprung up into a large capital, overspreading an extended area, abounding with noble public and private edifices, and possessing an increasing commerce with every port under the sun.—C. J. Latrobe, ‘The Rambler in North America,’ i. 32 (N.Y.).
1836. Any six gentlemen in the city of monuments.—Phila. Public Ledger, May 24. (For fuller quotation see BANTER.)
1861. He [Mr. Killinger] complimented Maryland…. He gazed with pride on the memorials of patriotism which adorn her Monumental City like altars of devotion.—O. J. Victor, ‘The History … of the Southern Rebellion,’ i. 313.
1863. The “Monumental City” quickly became a city of deserted marts and ruined commercial enterprises.—Id., ii. 111.
1863. The men whose sympathies for the South were most violently expressed, belonged, as a general thing, to a class of rowdies whose reign in Baltimore had given the “Monumental City” an unenviable reputation for disorder.—Id., ii. 145.
