The Lost Bet

ID: 2591 ~ Date: 1981
This file appears in: The National Aquarium

Mayor William Donald Schaefer swimming with a mermaid at the National Aquarium

This file appears in: The National Aquarium

By Mary Zajac
How the National Aquarium came to be in Baltimore is the story of three different aquariums that, over time, became one. Our story begins in the middle. In the 1970s, Baltimore mayor William…