Parade commemorates city?s diversity, history

Published October 7, 2006 4:00am ET



Columbus may have sailed to the Americas in 1492, but his legend lives on in 2006 with the 116th Annual Columbus Day Parade.

The parade, which marches from Mount Vernon Place down Charles Street to Fleet Street and Central Avenue, is the nation?s oldest and longest continuous celebration for the holiday, with the first parade in Baltimore taking place in 1890.

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