King James I granted the charter for the proprietary colony of Maryland to George Calvert on June 20, 1632, allowing Calvert to decide what to do with the land.

Cooking in Colonial Maryland: If it was filling, it was good. Historic St. Mary's Cityevent aims to satisfyappetites for the past. November 24, 2010. By Susan Craton.

After an exhaustive search, archaeologists at Maryland's Historic St. Mary’s museum have located St. Mary's Fort, the state's first European settlement and the United States' fourth English colony.

This Long, Violent Border Dispute Between Colonial Maryland and Pennsylvania is Why We Have the Mason-Dixon Line Cresap’s War was a conflict that didn’t get fully settled for almost 50 years ...

A 1630 engraving of Henrietta Maria, by Willem Jacobsz Delff and based on a painting by Daniel Mytens. The French-born wife of England's King Charles I, Henrietta Maria was known as Queen Mary ...

Religion in Colonial Maryland. Share full article. Jan. 20, 1900. ... that the-for-mer denied the Cardinal's claim of Maryland as a place where the Church of Rome had given religious toleration.

The Delaware Wedge is a 1.068-square-mile triangular chunk of land where Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland meet. For 200 years, that’s all these states could agree on.

Maryland Day officially took place this past weekend on March 25, which commemorates the formal founding of the colony of Maryland in 1634. But Maryland Day events are being commemorated ...

Maryland homeschoolers dig into history at colonial archaeological site. Posted: June 2, 2025 | Last updated: June 2, 2025. A group of homeschoolers from Prince George's and Charles Counties are ...

ST. MARY'S CITY, MARYLAND—The 400-year-old grave of one of the New World’s earliest colonists has been found in Historic St. Mary’s City near Washington, D.C., according to a Live Science ...

Historic St. Mary's City, a Maryland-based museum and archaeological organization, is opening up a reconstructed 17th-century Catholic Church called the Brick Chapel on Apr. 12.