Who Dubbed Baltimore "The Monumental City"?-- Part 1: JQA?

From the August 15, 2015, Baltimore Sun by Lance Humphries.

And, speaking of memorials in Baltimore, on July 4, 2015, the Baltimore Washington Monument had the bicentennial of the laying of its cornerstone.  That was way before the more famous Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. was begun.

In 1971, Baltimore historian Wilber Harvey  Hunter was the first to suggest that former President John Quincy Adams, while visiting the city in 1827 gave Baltimore its moniker "The Monumental City.  The story goes that he was at Barnum's Hotel at a banquet and gave the toast:  "Baltimore -- the monumental city -- may the days of her safety be as prosperous and happy, as the days of her danger have been trying and triumphant."

While Adams did toast Baltimore as the Monumental City, he was not the first to give it that name.

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