General George Washington resigns his Continental Army Commission to the U.S. Congress in the Annapolis Statehouse. He refuses to become an authoritarian military leader and sets the new country toward civilian control of the military, an unprecedented first. This totally new concept of government has been a guiding principle throughout our history.
Finished in the 1780s, the Maryland Statehouse is the oldest capital in continuous use in the U.S.
The Maryland and New York Iron and Coal Company is incorporated in 1837. Within three years, two blast furnaces, a puddling furnace and a rolling mill make the Mount Savage Iron Works the largest in the US. It makes the rails for the B&O railroad.
Louis Goldstein, much loved and much admired, is elected to state comptroller nine times, dying in the middle of his tenth campaign.
Maryland builds the beginning of an interstate road, a toll road from Baltimore to Cumberland. In a first federal project the government funds next road segment west to Ohio in 1811.
We acknowledge the enduring presence of many American Indian tribes who once lived in Maryland and who now, having lost their lands, live in a diaspora. Read more.
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