Maryland

Maryland is known as the “Old Line State” and although it is one of the smallest states, it is also one of the most densely populated.  It surrounds the Chesapeake Bay and is separated from its neighbor Pennsylvania by the Mason-Dixon Line.  It is one of the original thirteen colonies.

• Capital:  Annapolis
• Largest City:  Baltimore
• Area: 12,407 sq. mi.
• State Bird:  Baltimore Oriole
• State Flower:  Black-Eyed Susan
• State Tree:  White Oak
• State Song:  ”Maryland, My Maryland”
• State Motto:  Fatti Maschii, Parole Femine (Manly Deeds, Womanly Words)
• State Governor:  Martin O’Malley

FAMOUS MARYLANDERS:

Jim Henson Statue @ UMD (Photo credit: farrelley)

• F. Scott Fitzgerald – author, wrote The Great Gatsby
• Jim Henson – puppeteer, created Sesame Street and The Muppets
• Billie Holiday – jazz singer
• Francis Scott Key – author and poet, wrote lyrics for The Star-Spangled Banner
• Sugar Ray Leonard – boxer
• Michael Phelps – Olympic swimmer, most decorated Olympian in history
• Edgar Allen Poe – author and poet
• Cal Ripken, Jr – Major League Baseball player
• Jada Pinkett Smith – actress
• Harriet Tubman – slavery abolitionist, helped on the Underground Railroad

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