Maryland
For much of its history, which dates from the 1600s, Solomons (also known as Solomons Island) was an isolated, closely knit community. It has been an oyster processing center and a busy shipyard and is situated at the mouth of the Patuxent River and the Chesapeake Bay in southern Maryland.
Maryland
Charles I of England granted a royal charter for Maryland in 1632, and English settlers arrived in 1634. Early on, area was primarily home to indentured servants, convicts and Catholics (and was one of the only early settlements to have Catholics in positions of power).
The Mason Dixon Line was created in the mid-1700s, and Maryland gave away some land in 1791 to create the District of Colombia, which is now the location of the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives and the White House.
British troops attempted to capture Baltimore in 1814, prompting Francis Scott Key to write The Star Spangled Banner.
Maryland was a slave state during the Civil War but stayed in the Union.
The state covers both sides of Chesapeake Bay and it has one of the nation's longest waterfronts. A few vital agricultural products are nursery and greenhouse products, dairy products, chickens, soybeans and eggs. The waters from Chesapeake Bay grow clams, finned fish, oysters and crabs.
Baltimore is home to Johns Hopkins University and Hospital, and Annapolis, the state capital, is the site of the U.S. Naval Academy. Popular sites for visitors include Harpers Ferry, Fort McHenry, Antietam National Battlefield, the U.S.S. Constellation, the National Aquarium and the Goddard Space Flight Center.
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