Streets in Baltimore that are Named after Slaveholders

• O'Donnell St. - John O'Donnell (1749-1805) was a wealthy merchant who enslaved people on his Canton plantation.
• John St. - John Eager Howard (1752-1827) was an officer in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He was also Governor of Maryland (1788-1791), a member of the Maryland Senate (1791-1795), and U.S. Senator from Maryland (1796-1803). He was also a slaveholder.
• Eager St. - John Eager Howard (1752-1827)
• Howard St. - John Eager Howard (1752-1827)
• Calvert St. - Cecil Calvert (1605-1675) was the 2nd Baron Baltimore.
• Baltimore St. - Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron of Baltimore.
• Charles St. - Charles Calvert (1699-1751) was the 5th Baron Baltimore. He was proprietary governor of the colony of Maryland from 1732-1733. A painting by John Hesselius (1728-1778) owned by The Baltimore Museum of Art shows him at the age of five with one of his family's slaves.
• Greene St. - Nathanael Greene (1742-1786) was a Major General of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He was a slaveholder.
• Fayette St. - The Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) became a slaveholder when he bought a plantation in French Guiana with the intent of freeing the enslaved people there.
• Lafayette Ave. - Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834).
• McDonough St. - John McDonough (1779-1850) was a wealthy merchant and slaveholder. He supported efforts by the American Colonization Society to enable freed black slaves to return to Africa.
• Washington St. - George Washington (1732-1799) was the Commander-in Chief of the Continental Army (1775-1783) and the first President of the United States (1789-1797). He enslaved people at his Mt. Vernon plantation.
• Laurens St. - John Laurens (1754-1782), although technically not a slaveholder himself, he came from a family of wealthy slaveholders in South Carolina. He served as an officer during the Revolutionary War, and he unsuccessfully attempted to form a regiment of slaves during the Revolutionary War who would be granted freedom in return for their service. 
• Ridgely St. - Charles Ridgely II (1702-1772) was a merchant and owner of the Hampton plantation, which relied on the labor of enslaved people.
• Gilmor St. - The Gilmor family was a prominent Baltimore family who enslaved people on their plantation, Glen Ellen, which is now the site of the Loch Raven Reservoir. Robert Gilmor Jr. (1774-1848) was a prominent merchant and shipowner. His brother Harry Gilmor (1838-1883) was a Confederate Cavalry officer who later became Baltimore City Police Commissioner (1874-1879).