250 Years · 50 States · One Historic Milestone
In 1634, the Ark and the Dove carried the first English colonists to the shores of the Che...
Read more →Maryland ratified the United States Constitution on April 28, 1788, becoming the seventh s...
Read more →In September 1814, British forces attacked Baltimore during the War of 1812, bombarding Fo...
Read more →The United States Naval Academy was established at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1845 to provide...
Read more →Maryland was a slave state that remained in the Union during the Civil War, but its loyalt...
Read more →Johns Hopkins University opened in Baltimore in 1876 as one of the first research universi...
Read more →In February 1904, a massive fire swept through downtown Baltimore, burning for more than t...
Read more →Plans for a bridge spanning the Chesapeake Bay were developed in the 1930s and 1940s, refl...
Read more →The Chesapeake Bay Bridge opened in 1952, connecting Maryland's Eastern Shore to the weste...
Read more →Today, Maryland is home to world-class universities, research hospitals, federal agencies,...
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