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BALTIMORE Camping Events Good Food History Museums Sight Seeing Sites Close By Sports/Golf Tips for Travelers For More Info Return to State Index SHOPPING A great place to start your Baltimore shopping adventure is along Charles Street, 200 to 900 blocks. Here you'll find the Washington Monument, and neat shops like Louie's Book Store Cafe, Beadazzled, and A People United. If you get lost, just look for one of the Public Safety Guides in the black jackets with the purple and gold shoulder patches. You'll find more unique stores in the Market Center area, bounded by Franklin, Liberty, Baltimore, and Greene Streets. The 400 merchants in this area pride themselves in offering culturally diverse specialty goods and ethnic foods.
You'll find lots to tempt you as your explore the 140 food stalls selling goodies like sweet crab cakes, corned beef sandwiches, and still warm cookies at the Lexington Market, 400 W Lexington St., 410-685-6169. You'll find the area's largest farmer's market at Holiday and Saratoga Streets. Open on Saturdays at 8:00 a.m., this market features fresh produce, herbs, flowers, and plants.
If antiques are your weakness head to Antique Row, 700 block of North Howard Street. Here about 75 dealers have banded together to tempt you with all kinds of American and European antiques. Craft lovers will enjoy stopping at Angeline's Art Gallery, 1631 Thames St., Brown's Wharf, 410-522-7909. While bargain hunters won't mind making the drive to the Tanger Factory Outlet Center, Martinsburg, WV, 304-263-0465, 800-727-6885.
Hat lovers will enjoy browsing at Hats In The Belfry, 201 E Pratt St, 410-528-0060. Besides Hats In The Belfry, you'll find 125 other fun stores, restaurants, galleries, and side walk cafes in this redeveloped 6-block harbor area. If you get hungry while in the area drop in at the the Cheesecake Factory, 201 E Pratt St, 410-234-3990, for a piece of cheesecake big enough to split!Is your refrigerator beginning to look a little bare? Then, if you are staying in Freeland, head to the Pretty Boy Market, 20200 Middletown Rd., 410-357-4367; or in Clarksburg, drop in at the Clarksburg Grocery Store, 23329 Frederick Rd., 301-972-2059.
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