BALTIMORE -- Baltimore County native Benjamin Banneker's contributions to Black ... and he was obsessed with astronomy and studying the stars in the sky, thanks to a neighbor down the Patapsco ...

click image for close-up The cover of Benjamin Banneker's 1795 Almanac features a woodcut portrait of the author, scientist, mathematician, farmer, astronomer, publisher and urban planner ...

On August 19, 1791, Benjamin Banneker wrote a lengthy letter to Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, in which "having taken up my pen in order to direct to you as a present, a copy of an ...

Benjamin Banneker was one of the most famous black men in colonial America. He was a farmer, a mathematician, an inventor, an astronomer, a writer, a surveyor, a scientist, and a humanitarian.

Although the Banneker-Douglass Museum is small, it's loaded with history. It's named for the Black scientist Benjamin Banneker and Black social crusader Frederick Douglass. Both of these men were ...

Who is Benjamin Banneker? The "Banneka" family settled ... and he was obsessed with astronomy and studying the stars in the sky, thanks to a neighbor down the Patapsco River named George Ellicott ...