In 1774, the first post office in the United States was established in Baltimore, Maryland.¹⁾

The words to “The Star-Spangled Banner” were written by Francis Scott Key after seeing the flag still flying at Fort McHenry in Maryland's Baltimore Bay after the British attacked the fort during the War of 1812.²⁾

Between Washington, DC and Baltimore, the world's first telegraph connection was established. The first telegraph message was sent from Washington, DC to Baltimore.³⁾

The United States Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, Maryland in 1845.⁴⁾

King William's School, the first school in the United States, was constructed in Annapolis in 1696.⁵⁾

Garrett Park, Maryland, enacted legislation in 1898 making it unlawful to kill any songbird or tree inside municipal borders.⁶⁾

Maryland has 4,431 miles of tidal shoreline, including the islands that are part of its borders.⁷⁾

Maryland is frequently referred to as “America in miniature” due to its diversified landscape. Maryland has lovely coasts and sandy dunes, marshlands filled with wildlife, and pine-covered mountains. ⁸⁾

From 1783 to 1784, Annapolis, Maryland, was the temporary capital of the United States.⁹⁾

Maryland observes Maryland Day on March 25 to commemorate the day in 1634 when colonial immigrants first set foot on her beaches.¹⁰⁾

With an average violent crime rate of 1,417 per 100,000 population, Baltimore, Maryland, is one of the most dangerous cities in the United States.¹¹⁾

St. Mary's City, Maryland's colonial capital city, was established by its founders to embody their ideal of separation of church and state. The mayor's residence was built in the middle, with the statehouse and jail on one side and a Catholic church and school on the other.¹²⁾

Puritans revolted and gained control of Maryland's government from 1655 until 1658. They made Anglicanism and Catholicism illegal and relentlessly attacked Maryland's Catholics, burning down all Catholic churches in the whole southern area.¹³⁾

Edgar Allan Poe, Dashiell Hammett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Upton Sinclair, Gertrude Stein, and W.E.B. Dubois were all famous Maryland writers.¹⁴⁾

Elizabeth Ann Seton of Maryland was the first native-born North American to be canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.¹⁵⁾

In the mid-1700s, the British government sent tens of thousands of English prisoners to Maryland to serve their sentences.¹⁶⁾

Frederick Douglas, the famous abolitionist, was born and educated in Maryland.¹⁷⁾

Emily Post, the preeminent etiquette writer in the United States, was born in Maryland.¹⁸⁾