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St. Mary's City (also known as Historic St. Mary's City) is a former colonial town that was founded in March 1634, as Maryland's first European settlement and capital. [5] It is now a state-run historic area, which includes a reconstruction of the original colonial settlement and a designated living history venue and museum complex.
According to historical tradition, the first settlers of the Maryland colony purchased the land for their settlement at St. Mary's City from the Yaocomico, who had a settlement in the area. [1] In 1634, Leonard Calvert , the first governor of the Maryland colony, met the Yaocomico along the Potomac below the island the Europeans had named St ...
Leonard Calvert: leader of the first English settlers in Maryland and first governor of the Maryland Colony, lived in St. Mary's City; Charles Calvert: 3rd Baron Baltimore (1637–1715), second long-term governor of the Maryland Colony (his Uncle Philip Calvert also governed before him, but only very briefly), lived in St. Mary's City
The new settlement was called "St. Mary's City" and it became the first capital of Maryland. It remained so for sixty years until 1695 when the colony's capital was moved north to the more central, newly established "Anne Arundel's Town (also briefly known as "Providence") and later renamed as " Annapolis ".
Location of St. Mary's County in Maryland. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Mary's County, Maryland. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
Margaret Brent (c. 1601 – c. 1671), was an English immigrant to the Colony of Maryland, settled in its new capitol, St. Mary's City, Maryland.She was the first woman in the English North American colonies to appear before a court of the common law.
St. Mary's College of Maryland is located on the original site of Maryland's first colony, St. Mary's City, [4] which was also the first capital of Maryland [1] and is considered to be the birthplace of religious freedom in America. [5] [6] Colonial St. Mary's City was actually only a town and at its peak had between 500 and 600 residents.
St. Mary's College of Maryland is located on the original site of Maryland's first colony, St. Mary's City, [12] which was also the first capital of Maryland [13] and is considered to be the birthplace of religious freedom in America. [14] [15] Colonial St. Mary's City was actually only a town and at its peak had between 500 and 600 residents.