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  Me with my sister on the ice
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  • Me with my sister on the ice
      Me with my sister on the ice
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  • The Lafayette Monument, by Andrew O
      The Lafayette Monument, by Andrew O
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  • Major George Armistead Statue at Fort McHenry
      Major George Armistead Statue at Fort...
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  • The ORIGINAL Washington Monument
      The ORIGINAL Washington Monument
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  • My sister and me at Carlin
      My sister and me at Carlin
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Inner Harbor / Downtown   Baltimore

Inner Harbor / Downtown, Baltimore

 20 Reviews  Baltimore has lots of monuments. They built the first monument in the US to George Washington back in 1829 (photo 5) The first photo is of a statue of John Mifflin Hood, early president of the... 

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United State Naval Academy   Annapolis

United State Naval Academy, Annapolis

 11 Reviews  Visit the Naval Academy and the John Paul Jones Tomb. The purpose of our visit was the chapel in which there is the John Paul Jones vault. John Paul Jones is considered as the father of the US navy... 

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Fell's Point   Baltimore

Fell's Point, Baltimore

 6 Reviews  The television series Homicide: Life on the Streets became an international success in the late 1990's. The location used for the scenes at the police station house is located in Fell's Point. If your... 

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Inner Harbor   Annapolis

Inner Harbor, Annapolis

 11 Reviews  While in the city, take a walk along the harbor of Annapolis where there are many things to see and do. There is even a plaque where the African slave, Kunta Kinte--of Alex Haley's 'Roots' fame--set... 

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Useless, Un-related information   Baltimore

Useless, Un-related information, Baltimore

 2 Reviews  The 5,000 acre Fort Meade was established in 1917 and named for Civil War General George Meade. The fort was a training camp at the end of WWI, and in WWII it served as a training camp and prisoner of... 

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Historical Explorations   Annapolis

Historical Explorations, Annapolis

 7 Reviews  Have a look at the Alex Hailey monument. It is located on the harbor between Compromise and Dock St. The slavery of the black people has deprived them of the knowledge of their origine. A. Hailey has... 

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Maryland State Capital Building   Annapolis

Maryland State Capital Building, Annapolis

 3 Reviews  See the cutest state capitol (no, really!). Don't miss the story about the 17th-century businesswoman who petitioned for the right to vote. This gutsy lady was *way* ahead of her time! See the Paca... 

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Sailing and Watercraft   Annapolis

Sailing and Watercraft, Annapolis

 6 Reviews  Each year since we bought our boat, we make a Columbus Day weekend pilgrimage to Annapolis for the The United States Sailboat Show which is the world's largest show featuring exclusively new sailboats... 

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by davecallahan

The counties in Maryland are fairly uniform in size but not in population density. In the twenty-four counties the population for each ranges from 20000 (Kent County) to nearly 800000 (Baltimore County). The state was originally settled by the Baron of Baltimore and his English Catholic friends. It was intended that it be a religious have. Therefore the naming of the counties often references to the Baron and his family and friends.Allegany | Anne Arundel | Baltimore City | Baltimore County | Calvert | Caroline | Carroll | Cecil | Charles | Dorchester | Frederick | Garrett | Harford | Howard | Kent | Montgomery | Prince George's | Queen Anne's | St. Mary's | Somerset | Talbot | Washington | Wicomico | Worcester

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The Eastern Shore

by grandmaR

The Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake is a Tri-State Area. The State of Delaware is totally on the Eastern Shore fronting on the Atlantic Ocean. The southern end of the Eastern Shore including part of Smith Island and all of Tangier Island is in Virginia. But most of the Eastern Shore is in Maryland.In spite of former Governer Shaeffer who referred to it as the 'outhouse of Maryland', the Eastern Shore has a lot going for it. It is sandwiched between the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay - a largely flat sandy penninsula which has lots of beaches for summer tourists and produces not only much of the seafood, but also chickens and vegetables. My pages on the Eastern Shore (first number tips, second number photos and third number travelogues) include: Bruff's Island 0 9 1 Chestertown 4 14 1 Crisfield 49 116 5 Hills Point 0 2 1 (just a narrative section about a cruise on our boat)...

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Big City, Capitol and Western Maryland Page

by grandmaR

This section of my tips is on Baltimore, Annapolis, northern and western Maryland(first number tips, second number photos, third number travelogues): Annapolis 34 81 3 - Maryland's Capital. In the past we have visited the boat show on Columbus Day weekend. Baltimore 63 177 4 - where I was born - a work in constantly in progress (currently a top 5 page) This is Maryland's biggest city. Baltimore City and Baltimore County Cockeysville 2 3 0 - Go north towards York PA Curtis Bay 0 3 0 - South shore of the Patapsco River - under construction Dundalk 3 6 0 Port for the Big Ships - under construction Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine 1 3 0 Hunt Valley 4 17 0 Sparrows Point 0 2 0 Timonium 3 10 0 Site of the State Fair Towson 18 63 2 - The County Seat of Baltimore County. My mom's home and where I lived through High School and college. Currently a top 5 page.Northeast Maryland...

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Southern Maryland

by grandmaR

If you think of the state as crab's left claw, with the Chesapeake Bay between the pinchers Southern Maryland where I live is the west side or thumb side of the claw and it consists of the counties of Charles, Calvert, and St. Mary's. I live in Leonardtown, which is in St. Mary's County, Maryland. So I have lots of tips in this area, which I have distributed into the various communities served by a single post office but which are separate areas in VT.In addition to (first number = tips, second number = photos, third number = travelogues) Leonardtown 28 122 5 (28 tips 122 photos and 5 travelogues) I have pages at (in alphabetical order within the counties):Charles County Benedict 1 6 0 Hughesville 1 1 0 Morgantown 8 11 0 (north end of the 301 Nice Bridge) Popes Creek 2 9 0Calvert County Broomes Island 1 4 0 Lusby 1 1 0 Prince Frederick 8 49 0 (the County Seat) Solomons Island 40 161 5...

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Eating my way through the Md 3/US 301 corridor

by grandmaR

We spent over 10 years between 1987 and 2000 driving back and forth through Central Maryland between Baltimore and Southern Maryland along the 301-3 corridor. We would have dinner on the drive down to Leonardtown in Southern Maryland on Friday, and have lunch Sunday on the drive back up to Brooklyn Park in northern Anne Arundel County to prepare for the work week in Baltimore. That's why most of these tips are about restaurants.(First number tips, second number photos, third number narratives) Bowie 8 38 0 Brooklyn Park 7 14 0 (our former city house) Columbia 1 4 0 A planned community where our third daughter lived Crofton 12 38 0 (restaurant tips) Ellicott City2 5 0 (oldest daughter's home) Gambrills 4 14 0 (restaurant tips) Glen Burnie 4 6 0 Laurel 1 2 0 (where I used to work) Linthicum 4 15 0 Linthicum Heights 1 8 (one brunch/lunch place tip and list of lunch places in the intro)...

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State Song

by frankcanfly

"Maryland, My Maryland" was adopted as the State song in 1939 The nine-stanza poem was written by James Ryder Randall in April 1861. A native of Maryland, Randall was teaching in Louisiana in the early days of the Civil War, and he was outraged at the news of Union troops being marched through Baltimore. The poem articulated Randall's Confederate sympathies. Set to the traditional tune of "Lauriger Horatius" ("O, Tannenbaum"), the song achieved wide popularity in Maryland and throughout the South.

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State Nickname

by frankcanfly

"The Old Line State"According to some historians, Gen. George Washington bestowed the name “Old Line State” and thereby associated Maryland with its regular line troops, the Maryland Line, who served courageously in many Revolutionary War battles.

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State Flower

by frankcanfly

The Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) has been the official Maryland flower since 1918 when it was designated the "Floral Emblem" of Maryland by the General AssemblyIf you see them on the side of the road, leave them alone. It's illegal to pick themWhen I wanted to grow some for a photo shoot, I simply crossed the border in Pennsylvania.

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State Flag

by frankcanfly

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.

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Maryland's Potomac

by grandmaR

One of the things that not many people know is that the Potomac belongs to Maryland up to the low tide mark on the Virginia shore.In 1632, Charles I granted a charter to Cecil Calvert, Baron of Baltimore, for a colony north of the "River of Pattowmack...unto the further Bank of the said River."After the American Revolution, Maryland objected to Virginians poaching fish from "its" Potomac waters but Virginians were not inclined to honor the low-water mark boundary - George Washington, for example, found his herring fishery in the river offshore from Mount Vernon to be a more-reliable source of income than growing tobacco and wheat, and never paid Maryland anything for the fish. In the Compact of 1785 (brokered by George Washington) it was agreed that neither Virginia or Maryland could interfere with the other's trade or fishing in the Potomac. The 1632 grant and the agreement by two...

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Admiral Fell Inn  Baltimore

 4 Reviews and 397 Opinions  We've been receiving special offers from Baltimore's Inner Harbor hotels since we joined the Harbor... 

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Historic Inns of Annapolis  Annapolis

 6 Reviews and 337 Opinions  Although we did not stay here, it looked like a lovely Inn right smack in the middle of Annapolis. 

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Hilton Suites Ocean City Oceanfront  Ocean City

 1 Review and 427 Opinions  We stayed at the Hilton to celebrate our 2nd Wedding Anniversary on April 23rd, 2007. The room was... 

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A: http://www.assateagueisland.com/assateague_camping.htm > So basically, where do I physically go to pay for the campsite? If you look at the dates on those web sites,... 

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