State Profile for Maryland

Added to Union: April 28, 1788 (7th State)	State Official Bird: Baltimore Oriole
Capital: Annapolis	State Official Flower: Black-Eyed-Susan
State Website: http://www.maryland.gov/	State Official Tree: White Oak

Historical Figures from Maryland

• Spiro Agnew
  
• Samuel Chase
  
• Gabriel Duvall
  
• Thomas Johnson
  
• John Glover Roberts, Jr.
  
• Roger Brooke Taney
  

Historical Sites in Maryland

• Fort Washington, Fort Washington
  
• Nixon Presidential Library, National Archives at College Park, College Park
  
• Surratt House Museum, Clinton
  

There are 3 sites in Maryland

Did you know?

The Emancipation Proclamation, enacted by President Lincoln, only freed slaves in territories not under Union control. The slave-owning territories that still belonged to the Union were not required to free their slaves. This was in order to not lose the support of those territories still part of the Union.

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