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View of Baltimore from Chapel Hill by Francis Guy, 1803. Brooklyn Museum of Art/Wikimedia Commons Few big-city churches in the United States have the length of history of Old Saint Paul's. Founded in 1692, it was one of the original 30 parishes created by the Establishment Act when Maryland was transferred from a proprietary province to a Royal colony. Designated as "Patapsco Parish" for its proximity to the river of the same name, the church moved from Colgate Creek (near the present-day Seagirt Marine Terminal in Dundalk) to its present location in 1729, when Baltimore town was first laid out. The remaining property, "Lot 19" on the original survey, is the last parcel from this original survey never to have been sold. The present building is the fourth on the site. The first small brick church built shortly after the purchase of the land was replaced in 1784 by a larger, two story church similar to other colonial and early Federal period churches like  Christ