Ophelia: A Pleasure to Shop at Lexington Market, Baltimore by Be Here Stories | Stories from Main Street published on 2022-05-11T17:30:52Z In 2020 and early 2021, the Peale participated in the Lexington Market Public History Initiative in an effort to collect stories and memories about the world-famous Lexington Market as the market itself prepared for a redesign and reopening. The initiative’s core partners were Baltimore Heritage, Baltimore Public Markets Corporation, Lexington Market, Inc., Market Center Community Development Corporation, Seawall, and the Peale, and the work was partially enabled by a Pathways Grant from the Maryland Center for History and Culture. This project was financed in part by the Maryland Center for History and Culture’s Thomas V. “Mike” Miller History Fund. Ophelia: My name is Ophelia, and I’m very familiar with the Lexington Market. I’ve been going there since I was a small child. Presently, I am in the Catonsville area. At the time when I first started, I was living in West Baltimore, here on Fulton Avenue. It has been a place of pleasure to shop with my parents and when I became a parent, I continued to shop there. Always got a pleasurable experience first with produce, with the fish department, with the meat department and with those good sandwiches I would get at the Corned Beef area. Ophelia: Everything I got there, I was pleased with. And, I loved the service I received there, and I still attend there as often as I can. I wouldn’t change that. I raised my children going there. They are adults now; they also go there. It’s been a pleasure, and I still pray and continue to pray that it will continue to be an opening place for all to shop and to attend. It’s a wonderful place to go in Baltimore. Do have a blessed season. Asset ID: 9157 Photo of Lexington Market, ca. 1903, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Genre Storytelling