The Acadians Arrive

1755, the first large group of immigrants would arrive in Fells Point. These Immigrants would settle into the area of South Charles Street that would later become known as “French Town”. These French /Catholic immigrants came to Baltimore as exiles from Nova Scotia where they had been viewed as a potential threat by the English during the early days of the French and Indian War. The story of these French Exiles would be immortalized in 1847 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his Poem, Evangeline. Although the French Acadians would be one of the first large groups of Immigrants into Baltimore and Fells Point, they would not be the last.