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Camden Yards, now closely associated with sports, is the site of two stadiums that are home to the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League and the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball, with the Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards standing to the north. Its name comes from its earlier role during the height of the railroad era as a complex of extensive rail yards, where the tracks of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, America’s first passenger railroad, served Camden Station and an adjacent freight warehouse. In 1912, the tracks of the Camden railroad yards carried passenger trains beneath massive shed roofs, and in the late twentieth century the area became the home of Baltimore’s NFL franchise, with the Ravens becoming Baltimore’s team in 1996 and their new stadium opening at Camden Yards in 1998.
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