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100 unusual facts about Maryland


Asaph Hall

Hall died in November 1907 while visiting his son Angelo in Annapolis, Maryland.

Ashton-Sandy Spring, Maryland

The CDP is designated to include the two unincorporated communities of Ashton and Sandy Spring.

Baltimore Highlands

Baltimore Highlands, Maryland, a census-designated place in southern Baltimore County

Baltimore municipal strike of 1974

The city itself, losing many tax-paying residents to the suburbs, was already suffering from budget shortfalls and beginning to shift toward privatization of services.

Boyds Bears

They began making and selling stuffed bears, and the bears became known as "Boyds Bears" for the town of Boyds, Maryland, where they lived and operated their business.

Brice Goldsborough

Frederick Post; Frederick, Maryland; December 28, 1927; "Hope Dwindling in Plane Search"

Burkittsville Historic District

The Burkittsville Historic District comprises the small town of Burkittsville, Maryland.

Camden Yards Sports Complex

The Camden Yards Sports Complex is located in Baltimore, Maryland.

Cesar Alzona

As part of the Philippine Military and Diplomatic Corps in Washington DC, his daughters Cezarina Barbara and Esperanza Patricia were born at the U.S. Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, while he made a name in public and civic service.

Chapelgate Christian Academy

Chapelgate Christian Academy (CCA) is a located in Marriottsville, Howard County, Maryland.

Children's Theatre in the Woods

In 1989, Theatre in the Woods inspired a similar production at Black Hill Regional Park in nearby Boyds, Maryland.

Claiborne, Maryland

In 1938 the ferry route was changed to run from Claiborne to Romancoke on Kent Island, and then Matapeake on Kent Island to Sandy Point, on the western shore.

Claude Allen

Allen was apprehended by Germantown Target store loss prevention manager Pete Schomburg on January 2, 2006.

College Park, Maryland

The following is a list of historic sites in College Park identified by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission.

Communication Moon Relay

The finished system used two sets of transmitters at Annapolis, Maryland and the Opana Radar Site in Hawaii and two sets of receivers at Cheltenham, Maryland and Wahiawa, Hawaii.

Conococheague

Wilson-Conococheague, Maryland, a combination of the communities of Wilson and Conococheague

Crampton's Gap Historic District

The district extends on the west to the foot of South Mountain, and to the east of Burkittsville, beyond the eastern foot of the mountain.

Culligan

By 1938, the first Culligan franchised dealership opened in Wheaton, Illinois, followed by another in Hagerstown, Maryland.

Cumberland Subdivision

At its east end, the Cumberland Subdivision becomes the Metropolitan Subdivision; at its west end (at Mexico, Maryland) it becomes the Cumberland Terminal Subdivision.

David Taylor Model Basin

The new navy modeling facility — named for David Taylor — was built in 1939 in today's community of Carderock just west of Bethesda, Maryland in Montgomery County.

Dean Acheson

At 6:00 p.m. on October 12, 1971, Acheson died of a massive stroke, at his farm home in Sandy Spring, Maryland, at the age of 78.

Dixon S. Miles

Miles died the next day and is buried in St. James Episcopal Church Cemetery in Monkton, Maryland.

Dowell, Maryland

Dowell is a small, rural unincorporated community in Calvert County, Maryland located immediately north of Solomons, Maryland.

Edward Phelps

Edward Phelps (1861-1931), businessman, mayor, politician; former mayor of Laurel, Maryland from 1895–1902

Edwin Hanson Webster

Born near Churchville, Maryland, Webster received a classical training, and attended the Churchville Academy and later the New London Academy of Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Floods in the United States: 2001–present

Flood damage was sustained in a swath from southern New York to the mouth, located at Havre de Grace in northern Maryland.

Frederick William Lord

He was a professor of mathematics in Washington College (in Chestertown, Maryland) for two years and was in charge of an academy at Baltimore for three years.

Garry Shider

On June 16, 2010, Shider died from complications of his cancer at his home in Greater Upper Marlboro, Maryland.

Gary S. Lachman

While in DC, Lachman developed Lake Arbor, Maryland, one of the first large-scale master planned communities in the Washington, D.C. suburbs.

George Junior Republic

A republic for younger boys, begun at Freeville, was established in Litchfield, Connecticut; and a National Junior Republic near Annapolis Junction, Maryland, and a Carter Junior Republic at Readington, near Easton, Pennsylvania, are modelled on the George Junior Republic.

Gerri Whittington

After Whittington signed the blackboard as "Jerri Whittington," she told host John Daly that she was from West River, Maryland.

Gio Batta Gori

Gio Batta Gori is an epidemiologist and fellow with the Health Policy Center in Bethesda, Maryland where he specializes in risk assessment and scientific research.

Green Spring, West Virginia

Green Spring is the site of a one-lane low water toll bridge that connects Green Spring Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 1) to Maryland Route 51 in Oldtown, Allegany County, Maryland.

Greenbranch Publishing

Greenbranch Publishing is a privately held firm founded in 1998 and headquartered in Phoenix, Maryland.

Greg Fahy

He was also Head of the Tissue Cryopreservation Section of the Transfusion and Cryopreservation Research Program of the U.S. Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland where he spearheaded the original concept of ice blocking agents.

Hancock Rescue Squad

The Hancock Rescue Squad is a combined career and volunteer EMS/Rescue station located in the town of Hancock, Maryland, United States.

Hans Multhopp

In 1949, the Glenn L. Martin Company (later Martin Marietta) of Essex, Maryland made efforts to recruit Multhopp to their staff of aeronautical engineers.

Harry Crandall

At the height of his career, Crandall owned eighteen theaters in Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Henry Darwin Rogers

After attending William and Mary, Henry worked at a school in Windsor, Maryland which he administered with his brother William Barton Rogers.

History of violence against LGBT people in the United States

May 29, 2008 – Eighteen-year-old Steven Parrish, a member of the 92 Family Swans subgroup of the Bloods, was murdered by Steven T. Hollis III and Juan L. Flythe on orders from gang leader Timothy Rawlings Jr., in Baltimore County, Maryland after they found "gay messages" on his cell phone.

Horatio Luro

Taylor hired Luro to run his Windfields Farm, a large breeding and racing operation with two farms in Ontario and another in Chesapeake City, Maryland.

Hugg-Thomas Wildlife Management Area

Hugg-Thomas Wildlife Management Area is a Wildlife Management Area in Howard County, Maryland, south of the town of Sykesville.

Indian Will

Indian Will was a well-known Native American who lived in a former settlement of the Shawnee Indians at the site of prevent day Cumberland, Maryland in the 18th century.

Isaac Tyson

He continued iron and copper explorations, opening the Springfield Mine for those two metals in Sykesville in 1849.

J. Heinrich Matthaei

Whilst a post-doctoral visitor in the laboratory of Marshall Warren Nirenberg at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, he discovered that a synthetic RNA polynucleotide, composed of a repeating uridylic acid residue, coded for a polypeptide chain encoding just one kind of amino acid, phenylalanine.

James J. Archer

Archer was born at Stafford, near Havre de Grace, Maryland, to John and Ann Stump Archer, a wealthy military family.

James Pollard Espy

After leaving the University in 1808 he taught an academy at Cumberland, Maryland.

Janet S. Owens

Janet S. Owens (born February 18, 1944, in Lothian, Maryland) is an American politician and Democrat who served as County Executive of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, for two terms, from 1998 until 2007.

Joe Maese

Following his professional football career, Joe was employed as a firefighter in Howard County, Maryland Howard County, Maryland.

John Walter Smith

Smith was born at Snow Hill, Maryland, and attended private schools and Union Academy.

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

It is located along Eastern Avenue near Bayview Boulevard, east of the outer city neighborhoods of Highlandtown and Greektown and west of the Baltimore County large suburban area of Essex and Middle River and northwest of the large suburban area of Dundalk.

Jose Bibiano

Bibiano grew up in Riverdale, Maryland and attended Parkdale High School, playing on their varsity soccer team for several seasons.

Joseph Seiss

Seiss was born in Graceham, Frederick County, Maryland, to an agricultural family; his interest in religious studies reportedly began in childhood.

Kept and Dreamless

Shown at AFI's Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland on September 24, 2005, this post-modern film explores mother-daughter relationships and the struggles of a 10-year old child to raise her cocaine-addicted mother.

Kevin Plank

His mother, Jayne (née Harper), is a former mayor of Kensington, Maryland who went on to direct the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs at the United States Department of State under President Ronald Reagan.

Kings Contrivance, Columbia, Maryland

There are many scenic and recreational parks in and around Kings Contrivance, including Gorman Park, Huntington Neighborhood Park, and Savage Park, all of which are maintained by Howard County Recreation and Parks and the Columbia Association.

Kosher restaurant

One such instance was a Dunkin' Donuts in Rockville, Maryland (a suburb of Washington, D.C.), which made the decision to be non-kosher in 2007 in order to offer menu items sold at non-kosher Dunkin' Donuts locations (such as ham).

Landover, Maryland

Located at the Capital Beltway and Landover Road, the mall neighbored the towns of Palmer Park, Ardmore, Glenarden, and Largo.

Léo Santa Cruz

On October 21, 2010 Santa Cruz beat the veteran James Owens at the Martin's Valley Mansion in Cockeysville, Maryland.

Marie Drake

Prior to that, a lyrical adaptation of "Maryland, My Maryland", written by a Juneau high school student during the early years of the 20th century, had been recognized by the Pioneers of Alaska as Alaska's official song, but had not received any such recognition by a governmental body.

Mark Kellner

Mark A. Kellner (born July 17, 1957), is a journalist living in Fulton, Maryland.

Martha Scanlan Klima

Delegate Klima graduated with her associate's degree from Stevenson University in Stevenson, Maryland.

Martin's Additions, Maryland

In 1896, Harry M. Martin began buying land from the Chevy Chase Land Company and others and called his holdings "Martin's Additions to Chevy Chase".

Maryland State Highway Administration

MSHA also maintains four research labs located throughout the State, as well as the Office of Traffic and Safety (OOTS) located in Hanover -- which houses several additional divisions.

Maryland World War I Service Medal

The Maryland World War I Service Medal was authorized for issue to citizens of the state of Maryland who volunteered for and served in either the Army or Navy of the U.S. during World War I.

Metro Maryland Youth For Christ

Metro Maryland Youth For Christ is a religious organization for young people in Maryland, United States.

Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation

The Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation was a Mid-Atlantic independent professional wrestling promotion based in Essex, Maryland.

Montgomery College

Montgomery College (M.C.) is a public, open access community college located in Montgomery County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C..

National Anthropological Archives

It is located in the Smithsonian's Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland and is part of the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History.

Neal Olkewicz

Since retirement, he has owned a vending business in Rockville, Maryland called Olkewicz Vending serving the Washington metropolitan area.

New York Air Brake

By 1990, New York Air Brake had furnished $100 million worth of equipment for more than half of New York City's subway cars before NYAB's Transit Division was established as the Knorr Brake Company and moved to Westminster, Maryland.

Northeast Branch Anacostia River

Portions of the Paint Branch and Little Paint Branch tributaries also drain the Cloverly, Colesville, Fairland, White Oak and Hillandale communities in Montgomery County.

Odenton Town Center

In July 2010 a Developer's Rights and Responsibilities Agreement (DRRA) was signed between The Halle Companies and Anne Arundel County which will allow the company to complete the stretch of Town Center Boulevard that connects the Seven Oaks Community with the Odenton MARC Station.

Penn Lyon Homes

In January 2011, custom modular home manufacturer Haven Custom Homes of Linthicum, Maryland began leasing the facility to begin building their new "Classic Homes by Haven" line.

Peppermill Village, Maryland

Because it is not formally incorporated, it has no official boundaries, but the United States Census Bureau has defined a census-designated place (CDP) consisting of Peppermill Village and the adjacent community of Carmody Hills, for statistical purposes.

Peter Heck

Peter Jewell Heck (born 4 September 1941, Chestertown, Maryland) is an American science fiction and mystery author.

Philip Richard Fendall I

Born on November 24, 1734 in Charles County, Maryland, Philip Richard Fendall had a profound influence on the socioeconomic and political structure of Alexandria, Virginia society.

Poolesville Historic District

The Poolesville Historic District is a national historic district located at Poolesville, Montgomery County, Maryland.

Priconodon

Its remains have been found in the Aptian-Albian age Lower Cretaceous Arundel Formation of Muirkirk, Prince George's County, Maryland.

Ralph Borsodi

Mildred Loomis, his most devoted student, continued the work of the School of Living into the 1970s when it was headquartered at Heathcote Community in Freeland, Maryland.

Robert Seton

He was born in Pisa, Italy, and educated in Mount St. Mary's College of Emmitsburg, Maryland, and in the Academia Ecclesiastica, Rome, where he was graduated with the degree of D.D. In 1866 he was raised to the rank of private chamberlain to Pope Pius IX.

Roger Leonard

Roger Leonard (born July 21, 1953) was a professional boxer from Palmer Park, Maryland.

Seneca Academy and Circle School

Seneca Academy is a private school (grades Kindergarten-5) in Darnestown, Maryland.

Sir Peter Parker, 2nd Baronet

Sir Peter Parker, 2nd Baronet (England, 1785 – 31 August 1814, Fairlee, Maryland) was an English naval officer, the son of Vice-Admiral Christopher Parker and Augusta Byron.

SS South American

In 1968, she was sold to Seafarers International Union in Piney Point, Maryland as a replacement for the North American which sank a year prior while in tow there.

St. Joseph's College and Mother Seton Shrine

Joseph's College and Mother Seton Shrine are two closely related campuses in Emmitsburg, Maryland.

Stephen A. Lesser

Lesser was born in Bethesda, Maryland, the son of Virginia Hirst Lesser, a painter and teacher of art and piano, and Dr. Alexander Lesser, a Hofstra University professor of Anthropology.

Stephen Warfield Gambrill

Born near Savage, Maryland, to Stephen Gambrill and Kate (Gorman) Gambrill, he attended the common schools and Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland, College Park.

Stoney Creek Farm

Stoney Creek Farm is located in Boonsboro, Maryland.

Suitland-Silver Hill, Maryland

Suitland Manor is directly across Suitland Road from the Suitland Federal Center, which houses the national headquarters of the United States Census Bureau, among other government agencies.

Superior Tours

Service to these cities is available from the Baltimore suburbs or Pikesville and Towson, and occasionally Fallston.

Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra

The Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra is based in Harford County, Maryland.

The Focus Foundation

The Focus Foundation, located in Davidsonville, Maryland, is a research agency that identifies and helps children who have X & Y Variations (also called X & Y chromosomal variations), dyslexia and/or developmental coordination disorder, conditions that lead to language-based disabilities, motor planning deficits, reading dysfunction, and attention and behavioral disorders.

Thomas Sim Lee

They founded the St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Petersville, Maryland.

Touch of Grey

First performed as an encore on September 15, 1982 at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland, it was finally released on In the Dark in 1987.

Upper Marlboro

Greater Upper Marlboro, Maryland, a mailing address and former census-designated place surrounding the incorporated town

USS X-1

Towed to Annapolis, Maryland, in December 1960, X-1 was reactivated and attached to Submarine Squadron 6 and based at the Small Craft Facility of the Severn River Command for experimental duties in Chesapeake Bay.

West Manheim Township, York County, Pennsylvania

The township occupies the southwestern corner of York County, with Adams County to the west and Carroll County, Maryland, to the south.

WGU-20

Operating 24 hours a day on a longwave frequency of 179 kHz from Chase, Maryland, WGU-20's programming consisted of pre-recorded announcements and time checks.

William Woodburn

He attended St. Charles College, Maryland, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1866.


2010 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship

Baltimore, Maryland was selected as the host for the final and semifinals, which were held at M&T Bank Stadium, the home field of the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League.

A Postcard from the Day

The Psychedelly, Bethesda, Maryland ("Goin' All the Way/Glendora", "Stepping Stone", "Mean Screen", "Reverse Psychiatry", "When We Were Kids")

Adrienne A. Jones

Adrienne A. Jones (born November 20, 1954) is the current Speaker Pro Tem of the Maryland House of Delegates, the first African-American female to serve in that position in Maryland.

Baltimore Convention Center

Irene E. Van Sant, then-manager of the Convention Center Hotel Project for the Baltimore Development Corporation, Baltimore's former Mayor Sheila Dixon, and Governor of Maryland Martin O'Malley—feel that a hotel adjacent to the Convention Center will make it a more appealing site for conventions.

Benning Bridge

In 1791, the state of Maryland (in which then controlled the area which would later become the District of Columbia) issued a charter to Benjamin Stoddert, Thomas Law, and John Templeman to build a bridge across the Anacostia River.

Bernard Baker

Bernard N. Baker (1854–1918), shipping magnate from Baltimore, Maryland

Betty Gillies

One of the outstanding ferry missions accomplished by the original Squadron at Wilmington came in April 1943, when four PT-26s were delivered from Hagerstown, Maryland, to DeWinton, Alberta, Canada, a distance of more than 2,500 miles.

Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

The majority of poems printed were obtained from the University of Maryland Library Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Papers, as well as the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Library's The Little Review Records.

Caroline Eden

On 26 April 1763 she married Maryland's last colonial governor, Robert Eden (1741–1784).

CMTA

Central Maryland Transportation Alliance, a coalition of Baltimore area business, civic and nonprofit leaders intent on improving travel efficiency within Central Maryland.

David Burton

David Burton (lawyer), professor at University of Maryland and partner of The Argus Group, see Americans For Fair Taxation

Delanco Township, New Jersey

When the regiment arrived in Baltimore, Maryland, it was attacked during the Baltimore riot of 1861.

Flag of the United States Navy

The flag was officially authorized by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on April 24, 1959 and was formally introduced to the public on April 30, 1959 at a ceremony at Naval Support Facility Carderock in Maryland .

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park is a Maryland state park dedicated to the life and work of abolitionist and Underground Railroad activist Harriet Tubman.

Hattie Lawton

She was part of the team that participated in the detection of the alleged 1861 Baltimore assassination plot against President-elect Abraham Lincoln and, according to Pinkerton's account, in the early part of 1861 Hattie was stationed in Perrymansville, Maryland with Timothy Webster, another Pinkerton agent.

James Baker House

James B. Baker House, Aberdeen, Maryland, listed on the NRHP in Maryland

James Hubbard

James W. Hubbard (born 1948), American politician in the Maryland House of Delegates

Jonathan Leo Fairbanks

Some of Fairbanks’ artwork is owned by institutions such as the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Boston Public Library, the Wye House and Myrtle Grove on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the Alhambra in southern Spain.

Kennedyville, Maryland

Wayne Gilchrest Former Congressman from the first district of Maryland.

Kirsty McCabe

McCabe studied Geophysics at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a first class honours degree before going on to spend three months as an intern at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where she used satellite magnetic data to interpret the underlying crustal structure of parts of Australasia.

Louis B. Butler

NPR commented on the Senate's reluctance to confirm Butler in an August 4, 2011 article, stating that "Some of the longest waiting nominees, Louis Butler of Wisconsin, Charles Bernard Day of Maryland and Edward Dumont of Washington happen to be black or openly gay".

Max Ochs

After leaving New York and heading west in 1965, Ochs was invited to appear with fellow University of Maryland student and fingerstyle guitarist Robbie Basho, as well as John Fahey and Harry Taussig on a Takoma Records release titled Contemporary Guitar.

Maya Keyes

Marcel-Keyes was born in New Jersey and raised in suburban Maryland by Alan Keyes, and wife Jocelyn Marcel-Keyes who is a native of India.

Mennen

At Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is a giant advertisement painted on the rock face of Maryland Heights.

Nancy Jacobs

During the 2007 session of the Maryland General Assembly, Senator Jacobs sponsored Maryland's version of Jessica's Law.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

The NAACP's Baltimore chapter, under president Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson, challenged segregation in Maryland state professional schools by supporting the 1935 Murray v. Pearson case argued by Marshall.

Neill Franklin

Stanford "Neill" Franklin was a police officer in Maryland for 33 years and is now a Huffington Post blogger and the executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP).

New Carrollton, Maryland

Carrollton was named after early Maryland settler Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a delegate to the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Patricia Hughes

:For the former First Lady of Maryland, see Patricia Donoho Hughes

Phil Greatwich

In 2007 he went to the United States to begin a course in Sports Management at Towson University, Maryland, where he played for the Towson Tigers soccer team.

Preakness

Preakness Stakes, an American flat thoroughbred horse race held in Baltimore, Maryland, named for the above horse

Rachel Carson Greenway

The Rachel Carson Conservation Park is a 650-acres park located near Laytonsville, in Montgomery County, Maryland.

SeaPerch

Currently, 112 schools in seven states are participating across the United States in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut.

Stream Energy

Stream Energy is an American retail electricity and natural gas firm active in the Texas, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Georgia and New York deregulated energy markets and headquartered within the Infomart building in Dallas.

The Band That Wouldn't Die

The band played on the steps of the Maryland State House while the legislature was in session one evening, causing a crowd to gather, including then-Governor William Donald Schaefer, who had been pushing hard for a team and a football stadium.

Thomas L. Bromwell

It has been suggested that aspects of Bromwell's political career served, in part, as inspiration for the fictional Maryland State Senator Clay Davis, from HBO's The Wire.

Titles of Nobility Amendment

There is speculation that the Congress proposed the amendment in response to the 1803 marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, Jerome, and Betsy Patterson of Baltimore, Maryland, who gave birth to a boy for whom she wanted aristocratic recognition from France.

US Army Medical Materiel Center – Southwest Asia

USAMMC-SWA was established as a provisional unit just before the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, manned by the Soldiers assigned to the 6th Medical Logistics Management Center (6MLMC) from Fort Detrick, Maryland, the 388th Medical Battalion (Logistics) from Hays, Kansas and the 424th Medical Battalion (Logistics) from Coraopolis, Pennsylvania.

USAMU

United States Army Medical Unit (1956-69), a now defunct medical research unit for biodefense at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

WDCO

WDCO-LP, a television station (channel 6) licensed to Salisbury, Maryland, which simulcasts WDCN-LP Washington, D.C.

WJZ

WJZ-FM, a radio station (105.7 FM) licensed to Catonsville, Maryland, United States

WPRS

WPRS-FM, a radio station (104.1 FM) licensed to Waldorf, Maryland, United States