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Smith and a crew of 14 men set out on a voyage up the Bay in a small, wooden boat called a shallop. Smith traveled north along the Bay's eastern shore to the Nanticoke River. He then crossed the Bay and explored its western shore as far north as the Patapsco River.
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The slavery they had was not big plantations or on farms not much of that at all. What it did consist of was being servants or maids for the wealthy.
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Relocation of Maryland Capital. The new Protestant Maryland governor Sir Francis Nicholson relocated the capital from St. Mary's City to the more central Annapolis
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The Puritans named their new settlement Providence. In 1650, Lord Baltimore, the overseer of the colony, granted a charter to the county that surrounded Providence. He named it Anne Arundel County after his beloved wife, Anne Arundel, who had died shortly before at the age of thirty-four.
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The city is named after Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore (1605–1675), of the Irish House of Lords and founding proprietor of the Province of Maryland.
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On this day in 1767, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon complete their survey of the boundary between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland as well as areas that would eventually become the states of Delaware and West Virginia.
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Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, and Charles of Carroll of Carrollton signed the Declaration of Independence and they were from Maryland.
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the Treaty of Paris was ratified there on January 14, 1784, so Annapolis became the first peacetime capital of the U.S.
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Maryland Becomes the Seventh State in the Union. Maryland was the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution and has two nicknames, the Old Line State and the Free State.
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Half of the district was in Maryland and the other half was in Virginia, and the two states gave this land to the government. In 1791, it was named Washington, the District of Columbia to honor George Washington. Columbia was another name for North America.
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Branded “The town that fooled the British,” St. Michaels avoided destruction by British invasion on August 10, 1813, when residents—forewarned of an imminent attack—turned off all their lights and attached lanterns to the masts of ships and the tops of trees, causing cannons to overshoot the town. The only house to be struck became known as the “Cannonball House.”
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On September 14, 1814, while witnessing the British bombard Fort McHenry in an attempt to capture Baltimore during the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner.” In 1931, the United States adopted the song as its national anthem.
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The Chesapeake & Delaware Canal is a 14-mile-long, 450-foot-wide and 35-foot-deep ship canal that connects the Delaware River with the Chesapeake Bay in the states of Delaware and Maryland in the United States. The C&D Canal is owned and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District.
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Civil War-era deployment by rail of soldiers from one theater of operations to another. The reinforcements began their journey on cars powered by locomotives belonging to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
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America's First Major Railroad Station. On January 7, 1830, America's first significant railroad station was opened in Baltimore as the eastern terminus of the recently formed Baltimore and Ohio (B & O) Railroad.
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History. The Sun was founded on May 17, 1837, by printer/editor/publisher/owner Arunah Shepherdson Abell (often listed as "A.S. Abell") and two associates, William Moseley Swain, and Azariah H. Simmons, recently from Philadelphia, where they had started and published the Public Ledger the year before.
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Sent by inventor Samuel F.B. Morse on May 24, 1844, over an experimental line from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, the message said: "What hath God wrought?"
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The United States Naval Academy was founded on October 10th, 1845 at Annapolis and is still open to this date. The acceptance rate is %9 which is quite low. James K. Polk and George Bancroft established the United Naval Academy and the purpose for creating it was to train people to become Marines.
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Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.
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The Battle of Antietam in Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862, was the first attack on Union soil during the Civil War and the bloodiest one-day battle in U.S. history with more than 23,000 soldiers killed. Although it ended in a draw, President Abraham Lincoln used General Robert E. Lee’s retreat to Virginia as an opportunity to issue his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, warning seceded states to return to the Union before the end of the year or their slaves would be declared free.
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The Maryland General Assembly wrote a new constitution for the state that made slavery illegal after that date. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery. Maryland outlawed slavery almost a year later.
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a new resort town with a casino and race track. Today, Chesapeake Beach and its sister city, North Beach, are known more for boutiques, eateries and quiet beach fun
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Babe Ruth, one of the most famous baseball players ever attended a school in Baltimore, Maryland. He was born in Maryland in 1895 and died in 1948. He died from Esophageal cancer in 1948 and his net worth was about 800,000 or $8,428,170.94 in today's money.
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The Great Baltimore Fire raged in Baltimore, Maryland, United States on Sunday, February 7 and Monday, February 8, 1904.
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The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, were two American aviators, engineers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane.
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charred ruins of five Triumph Explosives, Inc., buildings on the outskirts of this small war boom city seeking additional bodies while investigating officials sought to determine cause of an explosion in which 15 persons are known to have died.
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The desegregation of the county's schools, which this latest plan is intended to bring about, has been a slow, piece meal process since the 1954 Supreme Court decision, in large part because of a “freedom of choice” policy that was in effect for a decade. The public schools in the county in 1954 were offidially segregated; there were 24 separate black schools. Now there are about 40,000 black students, or about one‐quarter of the total.
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Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer, serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.
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The immediate cause of the riot was the April 4 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, which triggered unrest in 125 cities across the United States.
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The Maryland State House housed the workings of the United States government from November 26, 1783, to August 13, 1784, and the Treaty of Paris was ratified there on January 14, 1784, so Annapolis became the first peacetime capital of the U.S.
