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Passed on September 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland Colony, it was the first law requiring religious tolerance in the English North American colonies. In 1654, after the Third English Civil War (1649–1651), Parliamentary ( Puritan ) forces assumed control of Maryland for a time.
City of Baltimore Part of oldest American railyard; site of first passenger rail service and first telegraph message. Collections of 19th- and 20th-century artifacts related to America's railroads; 250 pieces of railroad rolling stock; 15,000 artifacts; four nineteenth-century buildings, including the historic roundhouse; a mile of historic track.
The Colonial Annapolis Historic District is a historic district in the City of Annapolis, the state capital of Maryland, that was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1965 and was geographically further expanded in 1984.
A map of the United States of America with the state of Texas highlighted. Texas is a state located in the Southern United States . As of the 2020 census , [ 1 ] 29,145,505 (95.55%) of the 30,503,301 residents of Texas lived in a municipality in the 2023 estimate.
St. Mary's City was the largest settlement in Maryland and the seat of colonial government until 1695. Because Anglicanism had become the official religion in Virginia, a band of Puritans in 1649 left for Maryland; they founded Providence (now called Annapolis). [25] In 1650 the Puritans revolted against the proprietary government.
Charles County was created in 1658 by an Order in Council.There was also an earlier Charles County from 1650 to 1654, sometimes referred to in historic documents as Old Charles County, [6] [7] [8] which consisted largely of lands within today's borders but "included parts of St. Mary’s, Calvert, present-day Charles, and Prince George’s County". [9]
The Rockville Railroad Station in Rockville, Maryland in 2017 Summit Avenue in Gaithersburg, Maryland in the early 1900s The Montgomery County Fair in Rockville, Maryland in 1917 By 1776, there was a growing movement to form a new, strong U.S. federal government , with each of the Thirteen Colonies retaining the authority to govern its local ...
The Colony of Virginia (also known frequently as the Virginia Colony or the Province of Virginia, and occasionally as the Dominion and Colony of Virginia) was an English colony in North America which existed briefly during the 16th century, and then continuously from 1607 until the American Revolution (as a British colony after 1707 [12]).