Baltimore Immigration Memorial

Mission Statement

            Although Baltimore ranked among the nation's leading recipient ports through the late 19th and early 20th centuries, welcoming as many as two million immigrants, this history has received such scant popular and scholarly attention that even many local residents are aware just how many families could trace their migration to the United States through the Port of Baltimore.

The Baltimore Immigration Memorial aims to address this need by:

• Creating and building a memorial and immigration heritage center in Locust Point, near the original landing sites of close to 2 million immigrants who came to Baltimore in search of a better future, devoted to remember and honor our ancestors, their sacrifices and hardships, as they pursued their dreams of freedom and prosperity;
• Establishing educational programs dedicated to documenting and preserving the history of Baltimore’s immigrant communities, past and present, central to the history and civic life of our city, and ensuring that this historical information be available to generations to come;

• Achieving and promoting international awareness and recognition of Baltimore’s important role in the immigration history of the United States of America, and to establish a research and tourism destination for those who may wish to come and visit this site; and to

• Actively seek funds from local, state and federal governments, as well as from the private sector, to sponsor and support these goals and enterprise.