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MARYLAND

Old Line State, Free State
Origin of state's name: Named to honor Henrietta Maria, wife of England's King Charles I
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The Maryland flag contains the family crest of the Calvert and Crossland families. Maryland was founded as an English colony in 1634 by Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore. The black and Gold designs belong to the Calvert family. The red and white design belongs to the Crossland family.
Entered Union: Seventh of the original 13 states to ratify Constitution, April 28, 1788
Capital: Annapolis
Motto: Fatti Maschii, Parole Femine (Many deeds, womanly words)
Flower: Black-eyed susan
Bird: Baltimore oriole
Tree: White oak
Song: Maryland, My Maryland

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A LITTLE HISTORY

Captain John Smith first explored Maryland in 1608. William Claiborne set up a trading post on Kent Island in Chesapeake Bay in 1631. Britain granted land to Cecilius Calvert, Lord Baltimore in 1632; his brother led 200 settlers to St. Marys River in 1634. The bravery of Maryland troops in the American Revolution, as at the Battle of Long Island, won the state its nickname The Old Line State. In the War of 1812, when a British fleet tried to take Fort McHenry, Marylander Francis Scott Key (1814) wrote the 'Star-Spangled Banner.'
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FACTS AND TRIVIA ABOUT MARYLAND

The Chesapeake Bay divides Maryland's Eastern and Western shores.
The state boat of Maryland is the Skipjack, state tree is the White oak, state crustacean is the Maryland Blue Crab, state dog is the Chesapeake Bay retriever, state insect is the Baltimore checkerspot butterfly.
Maryland was inhabited by Indians as early as ca. 10,000 B.C.. Permanent Indian villages were established by ca. 1000 A.D..
Captain John Smith explored Chesapeake Bay in 1608.
The official state sport of Maryland is Jousting.
The state of Maryland has no natural lakes.
George Washington was not the first president of the United States. The first president was John Hanson, Maryland's representative at the Continental Congress. On November 5, 1781, Hanson was elected by the Constitutional Congress to the office of 'President of the United States in Congress Assembled.' He served for one year.
In 1851, Jacob Fussell, a milk dealer in Baltimore, converted his milk plant into the first ice cream plant in the United States.'
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