Take a tour of the Peale, Baltimore's Community Museum and the oldest purpose-built museum in America. In this multi-stop tour, you'll hear from experts, historians, and curators who worked on and in the building during recent renovations.
Tour Stop 7
Jackson Gilman-Forlini: (00:02)We kind of have a sense of was going on back there in the 19th century. The Peale family actually using the backyard to manufacture gas for their gas lighting. That's one of the things the Peale is known for is the birthplace of gas lighting in America. One of the birthplaces I guess, birthplace of the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company was started out the Peale. The first public building in Baltimore that would be lit with gas lighting. So we know that there was a rudimentary gas manufacturing apparatus back there, that the Peale's were using to make the stuff from coal. So it would be really interesting if we could find some evidence of that operation.
