You May Think You Know, But You Might Be Wrong: How Baltimore Became Charm City
March 31, 2016
Many people think it was the great American satirist H.L. Mencken who gifted Baltimore with its moniker still used today: Charm City. But those people are wrong. The mistake is understandable, when you learn that one of The New York Times’ own travel writers said it was so in a 1994 column about the city; "H.L. Mencken," Meldina Henneberger wrote, "dubbed his hometown ‘Charm City’.'”