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Maryland

Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic States of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the Washington, D.C. to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north, and Delaware to the east....
 in popular usage is composed of the state's southernmost counties on the "Western Shore" of the Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States. It lies off the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by Maryland and Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay's drainage basin covers in the District of Columbia and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia....
. This region includes all of Calvert
Calvert County, Maryland

Calvert County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is on a peninsula, bordered on the east by the Chesapeake Bay, and on the west by the Patuxent River....
, Charles
Charles County, Maryland

Charles County is a county in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Maryland.As of 2000, the population was 120,546. Its county seat is La Plata, Maryland....
 and St. Mary's counties and southern portions of Anne Arundel
Anne Arundel County, Maryland

Anne Arundel County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is named for Anne Arundell , a member of the ancient family of Arundells in Cornwall, England and the wife of C?cilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore....
 and Prince George's
Prince George's County, Maryland

Prince George's County is located in the U.S. state of Maryland immediately north, east, and south of Washington, D.C. As of 2007 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, it had a population of 828,770 and is the wealthiest county in the nation with an African-American majority....
 counties.

hern Maryland was originally inhabited by Piscataway Indians. Captain John Smith explored the area in 1608 and 1609. In 1634 St. Mary's City, at southern Maryland's lower tip was the site of the first Roman Catholic English settlement in North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
 (the site is now a living history museum).






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Southern Maryland
Maryland

Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic States of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the Washington, D.C. to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north, and Delaware to the east....
 in popular usage is composed of the state's southernmost counties on the "Western Shore" of the Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States. It lies off the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by Maryland and Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay's drainage basin covers in the District of Columbia and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia....
. This region includes all of Calvert
Calvert County, Maryland

Calvert County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is on a peninsula, bordered on the east by the Chesapeake Bay, and on the west by the Patuxent River....
, Charles
Charles County, Maryland

Charles County is a county in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Maryland.As of 2000, the population was 120,546. Its county seat is La Plata, Maryland....
 and St. Mary's counties and southern portions of Anne Arundel
Anne Arundel County, Maryland

Anne Arundel County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is named for Anne Arundell , a member of the ancient family of Arundells in Cornwall, England and the wife of C?cilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore....
 and Prince George's
Prince George's County, Maryland

Prince George's County is located in the U.S. state of Maryland immediately north, east, and south of Washington, D.C. As of 2007 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, it had a population of 828,770 and is the wealthiest county in the nation with an African-American majority....
 counties.

History

Southern Maryland was originally inhabited by Piscataway Indians. Captain John Smith explored the area in 1608 and 1609. In 1634 St. Mary's City, at southern Maryland's lower tip was the site of the first Roman Catholic English settlement in North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
 (the site is now a living history museum). Tobacco plantations flourished in southern Maryland during slavery
Slavery

Slavery is a form of forced labor where a person is compelled to Labor for another . Slaves are held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase, or birth, and are deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to receive Remuneration in return for their labor....
.

With a slave economy during the American Civil War
American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
, regional white sympathies were very pro-Confederate
Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America formed as the government set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven Southern United States U.S. state of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S....
 (as evidenced in the official state song lyrics
Maryland, My Maryland

"Maryland, My Maryland" is the official state song of Maryland. The song is set to the tune of "Lauriger Horatius" and the lyrics are from a nine-stanza poem written by James Ryder Randall....
). From the war's beginning, however, large numbers of Union occupying troops and patrolling river gunboats prevented the state's secession, although nighttime smuggling across the Potomac River
Potomac River

The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic Ocean coast of the United States. The river is approximately 383 statute miles long, with a Drainage basin of about 14,700 square miles ....
 with Virginia took place. John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated President of the United States Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865....
 was helped by local people in his escape through the area after killing President Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery....
.

Southern Maryland was traditionally a rural
Rural

Rural areas are large and isolated areas of a country, often with low populations. Today, 75 percent of the United States' inhabitants live in suburban and urban areas, but cities occupy only 2 percent of the country....
 and agricultural region, linked by passenger and freight steamboat routes. These steamboat routes operated on the Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States. It lies off the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by Maryland and Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay's drainage basin covers in the District of Columbia and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia....
 and major rivers until the 1930s before the building of highways and the Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge on U.S. Highway 301. Weekend excursion boats also carried Washingtonians to small amusement parks and amusement pavilions at numerous shore locations. From 1949 (1943 in some places) to 1968, the region was popular for its slot machine
Slot machine

A slot machine , fruit machine , or poker machine is a casino gambling machine with three or more reels which spin when a button is pushed....
 gambling (now illegal).

During recent times, the region experienced suburban development as the Washington
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
 suburbs expanded southward. This expansion took place primarily in Prince George's County
Prince George's County, Maryland

Prince George's County is located in the U.S. state of Maryland immediately north, east, and south of Washington, D.C. As of 2007 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, it had a population of 828,770 and is the wealthiest county in the nation with an African-American majority....
, and around Waldorf
Waldorf, Maryland

Waldorf is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Charles County, Maryland. It is 23 miles South-southeast of Washington, D.C....
 (a regional shopping hub) and St. Charles
St. Charles, Maryland

St. Charles is a census-designated place and planned new town in Charles County, Maryland, Maryland, United States, immediately south of Waldorf, Maryland, which is the mailing address....
 (a planned community in Charles County
Charles County, Maryland

Charles County is a county in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Maryland.As of 2000, the population was 120,546. Its county seat is La Plata, Maryland....
), Lexington Park
Lexington Park, Maryland

Lexington Park is a census-designated place in St. Mary's County, Maryland, Maryland, United States, and the principal community of the Lexington Park, Maryland United States micropolitan area....
 (St. Mary's County) and Prince Frederick
Prince Frederick, Maryland

Prince Frederick is a census-designated place in Calvert County, Maryland, Maryland, United States, not to be confused with the incorporated, and much larger, city of Frederick, Maryland some 70 miles to the northwest in Frederick County....
 (Calvert County
Calvert County, Maryland

Calvert County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is on a peninsula, bordered on the east by the Chesapeake Bay, and on the west by the Patuxent River....
). This expansion of the Washington DC metropolitan area has caused much of southern Maryland's formerly predominant southern culture to fade giving way to a rapidly growing northeastern culture that is found throughout much of the BosWash
BosWash

BosWash is a group of metropolitan areas in the Northeastern United States United States, extending from Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, to Washington, D.C., including Manchester, New Hampshire; Worcester, Massachusetts; Springfield, Massachusetts; Providence, Rhode Island; Bridgeport, Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut, New Haven, C...
 area. However, as noted, land-use maps show that the area is still primarily low-density.

Many southern Marylanders work at Andrews Air Force Base
Andrews Air Force Base

Andrews Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in Prince George's County, Maryland, Maryland, United States, eight miles east of Washington, D.C.....
, the U.S. Census Bureau or at Patuxent River Naval Air Station and its related industries. Other smaller industries include a nuclear power plant
Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant

The Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant located on the western shores of the Chesapeake Bay in Lusby, Maryland, Calvert County, Maryland, Maryland....
 and a liquified natural gas terminal
Dominion Cove Point LNG, LP

The Cove Point LNG Terminal is located near Lusby, Maryland, Maryland, United States, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, which receives imported liquefied natural gas and also stores gas....
 (both in Lusby), a Naval ordinance
Indian Head Naval Surface Weapons Center

Indian Head Naval Surface Warfare Center is a United States naval military installation located in Charles County, Maryland. The base works closely with the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division....
 test ground (at Indian Head
Indian Head, Maryland

Indian Head is a town in Charles County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. The population was 3,422 at the 2000 census. It has been the site of a naval base specializing in gun and rocket propellants since 1890....
), an electric power plant (at Aquasco) and an oil terminal (at Piney Point). The beautiful towns of Solomons Island and Chesapeake Beach
Chesapeake Beach, Maryland

Chesapeake Beach is a town in Calvert County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. Its major attractions include a Railway Museum & Trail, the Chesapeake Beach Water Park, marinas, piers, charter boat fishing, and a Veterans Memorial Park....
 are favorite weekend tourist resorts. Maryland International Raceway and Budds Creek Raceway near Chaptico attract many auto and motocross racing enthusiasts.

While the steamboats are long gone, more than three quarters of the land area is still rural, a mixture of forest and farmland. The growing of tobacco
Tobacco

Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as an organic pesticide, and in the form of nicotine tartrate it is used in some medicines....
, once a dominant crop, has declined greatly because of state government farm buyouts during the 1990s.

St. Mary's County is home to Amish
Amish

The various Amish or Amish Mennonite church fellowships are Christian religious denominations, and form a very traditional subgrouping of Mennonite churches....
 and Mennonite
Mennonite

The Mennonites are a group of Christianity Anabaptist denominations named after Menno Simons , though his writings articulated, and thereby, formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders....
 communities. In addition, two competing groups (only formally organized in recent years) claim to be the Piscataway Native American tribe
Piscataway Indian Nation

The Piscataway Indian Nation is a non-state, non-federally recognized Native Americans in the United States tribal nation, which, at one time, was one of the most populous and powerful Native polities of the Chesapeake Bay region....
, a tribe that lived along the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay in southern Maryland (see We-Sorts
We-Sorts

Wesorts is a name for people of "mixed-race" origins who currently claim descent from the Piscataway Native Americans in the United States population in Charles County, Maryland, Maryland....
). Fishing, boating and crabbing are popular activities in this region; large marinas are found in the Solomons Island and North Beach
North Beach

North Beach may refer to a number of places in the world:United States*North Beach, San Francisco, California*North Beach, Florida, a census-designated place in Indian River County...
 areas. However, the population of fish and other marine life is threatened by pollution and environmental factors. Ancient marine fossils are abundant at Calvert Cliffs.

Geography

The region's northern boundary passes through Prince George's County
Prince George's County, Maryland

Prince George's County is located in the U.S. state of Maryland immediately north, east, and south of Washington, D.C. As of 2007 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, it had a population of 828,770 and is the wealthiest county in the nation with an African-American majority....
 and Anne Arundel County, east of Washington
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
. Its eastern boundary is the Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States. It lies off the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by Maryland and Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay's drainage basin covers in the District of Columbia and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia....
 and its southern and western boundary is the Potomac River
Potomac River

The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic Ocean coast of the United States. The river is approximately 383 statute miles long, with a Drainage basin of about 14,700 square miles ....
, Maryland's boundary with Virginia
Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia is an United States U.S. state on the East Coast of the United States of the Southern United States. The state is known as the "Old Dominion" and sometimes as "Mother of Presidents", because it is the birthplace of Lists of United States Presidents by place of birth#By state....
.

Food and cuisine

Perhaps the most notable food dish originating from Southern Maryland is stuffed ham
Stuffed ham

Stuffed ham is a variety of ham in which cabbage, kale, onions, spices and seasonings are chopped and mixed, then stuffed into deep slits slashed in a whole, corned ham....
, which is cabbage, kale, onions, spices and seasonings that are chopped and mixed, then stuffed into deep slits slashed in a whole, corned ham.

Seafood
Seafood

Seafood is any aquatic animal that is served as food and eaten by humans. Seafoods include fish and shellfish .The harvesting of seafood is known as fishing and the cultivation and farming of seafood is known as aquaculture, mariculture, or in the case of fish, fish farming....
 is popular amongst Southern Marylanders, given the region's location along the Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States. It lies off the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by Maryland and Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay's drainage basin covers in the District of Columbia and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia....
 and its tributaries. Both steamed crabs and crab cakes are considered Southern Maryland delicacies due to the large amount of harvesting of blue crab
Blue crab

The blue crab is a crustacean found in the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, which is the Maryland State Crustacean and the subject of an extensive fishery....
s from the bay. Also popular are oysters, which were once fished from the bay in great numbers, and served either fried, raw or stuffed. Rockfish
Striped bass

The striped bass is the List of U.S. state fish of Maryland, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and the state Saltwater fish of New York....
 is considered one of the most prized fish dishes in Southern Maryland.

Towns and communities

Towns and places in Southern Maryland include:

Anne Arundel County:
  • Deale
    Deale, Maryland

    Deale is a census-designated place in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. The population was 4,796 at the 2000 census. It has a scenic view of Chesapeake Bay and is popular with boaters....
  • Shady Side
    Shady Side, Maryland

    Shady Side is a census-designated place in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. The population was 5,559 at the 2000 census....


Calvert County:
  • Chesapeake Beach
    Chesapeake Beach, Maryland

    Chesapeake Beach is a town in Calvert County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. Its major attractions include a Railway Museum & Trail, the Chesapeake Beach Water Park, marinas, piers, charter boat fishing, and a Veterans Memorial Park....
  • Dunkirk
    Dunkirk, Maryland

    Dunkirk is a census-designated place in Calvert County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. The population was 2,363 at the 2000 census. The area is very fast-growing, with many large estate homes....
  • Huntingtown
    Huntingtown, Maryland

    Huntingtown is a census-designated place in Calvert County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. The population was 2,436 at the 2000 census. The community is growing, with many large estate homes in small developments off of Maryland Route 2/4....
  • Lusby, Maryland
    Lusby, Maryland

    Lusby is a census-designated place in Calvert County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. The population was officially 1,666 at the 2000 census, although residents of the Chesapeake Ranch Estates-Drum Point, Maryland community also use the Lusby zip code designation, making Lusby in fact a much larger community....
  • North Beach
    North Beach, Maryland

    North Beach is a town in Calvert County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,880 at the 2000 census. The town is contiguous with the larger town of Chesapeake Beach, Maryland which has a new boardwalk, a new resort spa hotel, a recreational water park, and new housing....
  • Prince Frederick
    Prince Frederick, Maryland

    Prince Frederick is a census-designated place in Calvert County, Maryland, Maryland, United States, not to be confused with the incorporated, and much larger, city of Frederick, Maryland some 70 miles to the northwest in Frederick County....
     (county seat)
  • Port Republic, Maryland
    Port Republic, Maryland

    Port Republic is a small, rural community located inCalvert County, Maryland. It is approximately5 miles south of Prince Frederick, Maryland, the county...
  • St. Leonard, Maryland
    St. Leonard, Maryland

    St. Leonard is a census-designated place in Calvert County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. The population was officially 536 at the 2000 census, although residents of the Calvert Beach-Long Beach, Maryland community also use the St....
  • Solomons
    Solomons, Maryland

    Solomons is a community and census-designated place in Calvert County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,536 at the 2000 census....


Charles County:
  • Bryans Road, Maryland
    Bryans Road, Maryland

    Bryans Road is a census-designated place in Charles County, Maryland, Maryland, United States named after Oliver Norris Bryan, a nineteenth century farmer and scientist who owned and operated Locust Grove Farm near Marshall Hall, Maryland....
  • Indian Head
    Indian Head, Maryland

    Indian Head is a town in Charles County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. The population was 3,422 at the 2000 census. It has been the site of a naval base specializing in gun and rocket propellants since 1890....
  • Hughesville, Maryland
    Hughesville, Maryland

    Hughesville is a census-designated place in Charles County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,537 at the 2000 census....
  • La Plata
    La Plata, Maryland

    La Plata is a town in Charles County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. The population was 6,551 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Charles County, Maryland....
     (county seat)
  • Nanjemoy, Maryland
    Nanjemoy, Maryland

    Nanjemoy is a large rural area in Charles County, Maryland, Maryland, United States more or less bounded by the Nanjemoy Creek and the Potomac River....
  • Waldorf
    Waldorf, Maryland

    Waldorf is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Charles County, Maryland. It is 23 miles South-southeast of Washington, D.C....
  • St. Charles
    St. Charles, Maryland

    St. Charles is a census-designated place and planned new town in Charles County, Maryland, Maryland, United States, immediately south of Waldorf, Maryland, which is the mailing address....


Prince George's County:
  • Accokeek
    Accokeek, Maryland

    Accokeek is a census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland, Maryland, United States, located about 8.5 miles southwest of Washington, D.C....
  • Brandywine
    Brandywine, Maryland

    Brandywine is a census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, although the postal delivery area includes part of Charles County as well near Malcolm....
  • Clinton
    Clinton, Maryland

    Clinton is a census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. Clinton was formerly known as Surrattsville until the time of the American Civil War....
  • Eagle Harbor
    Eagle Harbor, Maryland

    Eagle Harbor is a very tiny incorporated town in the far extreme southeast corner of Prince George's County, Maryland, United States and near the rural community of Aquasco, Maryland....
  • Upper Marlboro
    Upper Marlboro, Maryland

    Upper Marlboro is a town in and the county seat of Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The live-in population of the town core proper was only 648 at the 2000 census, although Greater Upper Marlboro, Maryland is many times larger....
     (county seat)


St. Mary's County:
  • California, Maryland
    California, Maryland

    California is a census-designated place and community in St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States. The population was 9,307 at the 2000 census....
  • Charlotte Hall, Maryland
    Charlotte Hall, Maryland

    Charlotte Hall is a census-designated place in St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,214 at the 2000 census. The Maryland Veterans Home for disabled veterans, including a U.S....
  • Hollywood, Maryland
    Hollywood, Maryland

    Hollywood is a unincorporated community located within St. Mary's County, Maryland. It was named in 1867, when a storeowner at Thompson's General Store near the Uniontown section of Hollywood required a name for the post office inside the store....
  • Leonardtown
    Leonardtown, Maryland

    Leonardtown is a town in and the county seat of St. Mary's County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,896 at the 2000 United States Census....
     (county seat)
  • Lexington Park, Maryland
    Lexington Park, Maryland

    Lexington Park is a census-designated place in St. Mary's County, Maryland, Maryland, United States, and the principal community of the Lexington Park, Maryland United States micropolitan area....
  • Mechanicsville, Maryland
    Mechanicsville, Maryland

    Mechanicsville is a locale in St. Mary's County, Maryland known for its agriculture, Amish population, and large farmers' market/flea market. This community is served by the St....
  • St. Mary's City
    St. Mary's City, Maryland

    St. Mary's City, in St. Mary's County, Maryland, Maryland, is a small unincorporated community near the southernmost end of the state on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay....


Sports

Club League Venue Established Championships
Southern Maryland Blue Crabs
Southern Maryland Blue Crabs

The Southern Maryland Blue Crabs are a professional baseball team based in Waldorf, Maryland, in the United States. They are a member of the Liberty Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball....
 ALPB
Atlantic League of Professional Baseball

The Atlantic League of Professional Baseball is a professional, Independent league baseball baseball organization located in the Northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic States United States, especially the greater metropolitan areas of Baltimore, Maryland, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C....
, Baseball		 Regency Furniture Stadium
Regency Furniture Stadium

Regency Furniture Stadium is a 4,200-seat baseball park in Waldorf, Maryland that hosted its first regular season baseball game on May 2, 2008, as the tenants of the facility, the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs defeated the Lancaster Barnstormers, 3-2....
 2008 0


Notable Southern Marylanders

  • Rep. Steny Hoyer
    Steny Hoyer

    Steny Hamilton Hoyer is a United States Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Maryland Maryland's 5th congressional district since 1981....
     (D-Md), Majority Leader
    Majority leader

    In U.S. politics, the majority leader is a partisan position in a legislature body. If the presiding officer of the body is not elected by the body itself, the majority leader is the floor leader of the majority caucus; otherwise, the majority leader is the second-most senior member of the majority caucus, while the floor leader becomes the...
     of the United States House of Representatives
    United States House of Representatives

    The United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as "the House", is one of the bicameralism of the United States Congress; the other is the United States Senate....
    , represents southern Maryland as the representative for Maryland's Fifth Congressional District
    Maryland's 5th congressional district

    The Fifth Congressional District of Maryland elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives every two years. The district comprises all of Charles County, Maryland, St....
     and lives in Mechanicsville, Maryland
    Mechanicsville, Maryland

    Mechanicsville is a locale in St. Mary's County, Maryland known for its agriculture, Amish population, and large farmers' market/flea market. This community is served by the St....
    .


  • Two former first ladies
    First Lady of the United States

    First Lady of the United States is the unofficial title of the hostess of the White House. Because this position is traditionally filled by the wife of the President of the United States, the title is sometimes taken to apply only to the wife of a sitting President....
     hail from southern Maryland: Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams
    John Quincy Adams

    John Quincy Adams was an Foreign relations of the United States and Politics of the United States who served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from March 4, 1825 to March 4, 1829....
    , and Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor, wife of Zachary Taylor
    Zachary Taylor

    Zachary Taylor was an Military of the United States and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States.Known as "Old Rough and Ready", Taylor had a 40-year military career in the United States Army, serving in the War of 1812, Black Hawk War, and Seminole Wars before achieving fame leading U.S....
    .


  • Longtime Maryland
    Maryland

    Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic States of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the Washington, D.C. to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north, and Delaware to the east....
     State Comptroller Louis Goldstein
    Louis Goldstein

    Louis Goldstein may refer to:* Louis L. Goldstein, politician* Louis M. Goldstein, linguist...
     was from Calvert County; also Maryland Senate President Mike Miller currently lives there.


  • Co-discover of the North Pole
    North Pole

    The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole is, subject to the caveats explained below, defined as the point in the northern hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets the Earth's surface....
    , Matthew Henson
    Matthew Henson

    Matthew Alexander Henson was an United States explorer and associate of Robert Peary during various expeditions, the most famous being a 1909 expedition which claimed to be the first to reach the Geographic North Pole....
     and Captain Raphael Semmes
    Raphael Semmes

    For other uses, see Semmes.Raphael Semmes was an officer in the United States Navy from 1826 to 1860 and the Confederate States Navy from 1860 to 1865....
     of the Confederate ship "Alabama
    CSS Alabama

    CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built for the Confederate States Navy at Birkenhead, United Kingdom, in 1862 by John Laird Sons and Company....
    " were born near Nanjemoy, Charles County. Prominent revolutionary war
    American Revolutionary War

    The American Revolutionary War , also known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Thirteen Colonies on the North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers....
     statesmen John Hanson
    John Hanson

    John Hanson was a merchant and public official from Maryland during the era of the American Revolution. After serving in a variety of roles for the Patriot cause in Maryland, in 1779 Hanson was elected as a delegate to the Continental Congress....
    , Thomas Stone
    Thomas Stone

    Thomas Stone was an United States planter who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a delegate for Maryland. He later worked on the committee that formed the Articles of Confederation in 1777....
    , and General Smallwood
    William Smallwood

    William Smallwood was an United States Plantation, soldier and politician from Charles County, Maryland, Maryland.He served as an officer during the French and Indian War and in the Maryland Assembly....
     were from Charles County. Dr. Samuel Mudd
    Samuel Mudd

    Samuel Alexander Mudd I was a Maryland physician implicated and imprisoned for aiding and conspiring with John Wilkes Booth, in the assassination of President of the United States Abraham Lincoln....
    , convicted of conspiracy to murder in the Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery....
     assassination
    Assassination

    Assassination is the targeted killing of a public figure. Assassinations may be prompted by ideology, politics, or military reasons. Additionally, assassins may be motivated by contract killing, revenge, or celebrity or may be mental disorder....
    , was also a native of Charles County.


  • Best-selling Spy thriller novelist Tom Clancy
    Tom Clancy

    Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. is an United States author, best known for his technically detailed espionage and military science storylines set during and in the aftermath of the Cold War....
     lives in Calvert County in a home on Chesapeake Bay
    Chesapeake Bay

    The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States. It lies off the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by Maryland and Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay's drainage basin covers in the District of Columbia and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia....
    .


  • Television journalists Ted Koppel
    Ted Koppel

    Edward James "Ted" Koppel is an United States broadcast Journalism, best known as the News presenter for Nightline from the program's inception in 1980 until Koppel left in late 2005....
    , Judy Woodruff
    Judy Woodruff

    Judy Woodruff is an American television news anchor and journalist....
    , Al Hunt
    Al Hunt

    Albert R. Hunt is the executive Washington editor for Bloomberg L.P.. He is married to Judy Woodruff of PBS.Prior to joining Bloomberg News in January 2005, Hunt worked for the Wall Street Journal....
    , newspapermen Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn
    Sally Quinn

    Sally Sterling Quinn is an United States author and journalist....
    , and weatherman Doug Hill
    Doug Hill

    Doug Hill is the Chief Meteorologist for ABC 7 News/WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. He is the meteorologist for ABC 7 News at 5, 6, and 11. He has been awarded the "Seal of Approval" from the American Meteorological Society....
     all have houses in St. Mary's County.


  • Theoretical ecologist
    Theoretical ecology

    Theoretical ecology refers to several intellectual traditions. The tradition pursued in universities and scientific journals under the rubric of theoretical ecology addresses the equations and probability distributions that govern the demography and biogeography of species....
     Dr. Robert Ulanowicz
    Robert Ulanowicz

    Robert E. Ulanowicz is an American theoretical ecology and philosopher who is best known for his search for a "unified theory of ecology". He is Professor of Theoretical Ecology at the University of Maryland, College Park's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory....
     lived in Calvert County prior to his retirement in 2008 with Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
    Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

    The Chesapeake Biological Laboratory is a marine science laboratory on the Chesapeake Bay in Solomons, Maryland, and it is the oldest state-supported marine laboratory on the East Coast of the U.S....
     in Solomons
    Solomons, Maryland

    Solomons is a community and census-designated place in Calvert County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,536 at the 2000 census....
    , where he was a member of the faculty.


  • Roger Brooke Taney, the U.S. Supreme Court
    Supreme court

    A supreme court, also called a court of last resort or high court, is in some jurisdictions the highest court within that jurisdiction's court system, whose rulings are not subject to further review by another court....
     Chief Justice
    Chief Justice

    The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of India, the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the Supreme Court...
     who presided over the Dred Scott
    Dred Scott v. Sandford

    Dred Scott v. Sandford, , was a decision by the United States Supreme Court that ruled that people of African descent Slavery in the United States and held as History of slavery in the United States, or their descendants?whether or not they were slaves?were not legal persons and could never be citizens of the United States, and that the U...
     decision, was born in Calvert County near Prince Frederick
    Prince Frederick, Maryland

    Prince Frederick is a census-designated place in Calvert County, Maryland, Maryland, United States, not to be confused with the incorporated, and much larger, city of Frederick, Maryland some 70 miles to the northwest in Frederick County....
    .


  • Former Maryland
    Maryland

    Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic States of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the Washington, D.C. to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north, and Delaware to the east....
     comptroller
    Comptroller

    A comptroller or controller is a person who supervises accounting and financial reporting within an organization. A controller is an accountant in a business who oversees accounting and the implementation and monitoring of internal controls....
     Louis L. Goldstein
    Louis L. Goldstein

    Louis Lazarus Goldstein served as Comptroller of Maryland, or chief financial officer, of Maryland from 1959 to 1998. He was born to a storekeeper in the small town of Prince Frederick, Maryland, and also died there....
     lived in Calvert County. A portion of Route 2-4 in Calvert County was renamed in his honor after his death.


  • Arthur Storer
    Arthur Storer

    Arthur Storer was America's first colonial astronomer. He came to Calvert County, Maryland, Maryland, from Lincolnshire, England. He was among the first observers to sight and record data about a magnificent comet that passed over Patuxent River skies in 1682....
    , first astronomer
    Astronomer

    An astronomer is a scientist who studies Celestial body such as planets, stars, and Galaxy.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using physical laws....
     in the American colonies and the original namesake for Halley's Comet, lived the latter part of his life in Calvert County. A planetarium
    Planetarium

    File:Planetarium-Thursday-1-July-2008.JPGFile:Belgrade Planetarium theatre day.jpgFile:Belgrade Planetarium theatre night.jpgA planetarium is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation....
     in Prince Frederick
    Prince Frederick, Maryland

    Prince Frederick is a census-designated place in Calvert County, Maryland, Maryland, United States, not to be confused with the incorporated, and much larger, city of Frederick, Maryland some 70 miles to the northwest in Frederick County....
     bears his name.


  • Thomas Johnson
    Thomas Johnson (governor)

    Thomas Johnson was an United States jurist with a distinguished political career. He was the first elected Governor of Maryland, a delegate to the Continental Congress and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court....
    , the first elected governor
    Governor

    A governor is a governing official, usually the Executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state. In federations, a governor may be the title of each appointed or elected politician who governs a constitutive state....
     of Maryland
    Maryland

    Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic States of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the Washington, D.C. to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north, and Delaware to the east....
     and U.S. Supreme Court
    Supreme court

    A supreme court, also called a court of last resort or high court, is in some jurisdictions the highest court within that jurisdiction's court system, whose rulings are not subject to further review by another court....
     justice. The Governor Thomas Johnson Bridge
    Governor Thomas Johnson Bridge

    The Governor Thomas Johnson Bridge is a one and a half mile long bridge in Maryland over the lower Patuxent River joining Calvert and St. Mary?s counties....
     connecting Calvert and St. Mary's counties was named in his honor.


  • Television and film screenwriter and producer Alfred Gough
    Alfred Gough

    Alfred Fabian Gough III is an United States screenwriter and producer....
     hails from Leonardtown
    Leonardtown, Maryland

    Leonardtown is a town in and the county seat of St. Mary's County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,896 at the 2000 United States Census....
     in St. Mary's County.


  • Former Maryland
    Maryland

    Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic States of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the Washington, D.C. to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north, and Delaware to the east....
     State Senator and Patuxent River
    Patuxent River

    The Patuxent River is a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay in the state of Maryland. There are three main river drainages for central Maryland: the Potomac River to the west passing through Washington D.C., the Patapsco River to the northeast passing through Baltimore, and the Patuxent River between the two....
     advocate Bernie Fowler
    Bernie Fowler

    Clyde Bernard Fowler , is a former Maryland Maryland Senate and County Commissioner from Calvert County, Maryland. Fowler is best known for his advocacy for the cleanup of the Patuxent River, the largest river to be found entirely within the State of Maryland....
     lives in Calvert County. Every year, in Broomes Island
    Broomes Island, Maryland

    Broomes Island, Maryland is a small waterfront community in Calvert County, Maryland, USA, on the Patuxent River. It is located approximately 10 miles south of Prince Frederick, Maryland....
     Fowler will hold a "wade-in" with other public officials to help determine the clarity levels of the Patuxent.


  • Singer Christina Milian
    Christina Milian

    Christine Flores , better known by her stage name Christina Milian, is an American contemporary R&B and pop music singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor....
     once lived in Waldorf
    Waldorf, Maryland

    Waldorf is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Charles County, Maryland. It is 23 miles South-southeast of Washington, D.C....
    .


  • Joel
    Joel Madden

    Joel Ryan Reuben Madden is an American singer and the lead vocalist for the band Good Charlotte....
     and Benji Madden
    Benji Madden

    Benjamin Levi Madden is an American club DJ, record producer, the guitarist and backup vocals of the band Good Charlotte....
     from the band Good Charlotte
    Good Charlotte

    Good Charlotte is an American band from Waldorf, Maryland that formed in 1996. They took their name from the children's book called "Good Charlotte: The Girls of Good Day Orphanage," written by Carol Beach York....
     grew up in Waldorf.


  • Turkey Tayac
    Turkey Tayac

    Turkey Tayac was a Piscataway Indian leader and herbal doctor, born Philip Sheridan Proctor, in 1895 in Charles County, Maryland. Tayac was the last person to have knowledge of the Piscataway language....
    , Piscataway tribal leader and herbal medicine man


  • Robert Stethem
    Robert Stethem

    Robert Dean Stethem was a United States Navy Seabee diver who was killed during the aircraft hijacking of the commercial airliner he was aboard: TWA Flight 847....
    , murder victim during hijacking of TWA Flight 847
    TWA Flight 847

    TWA Flight 847 was an international Trans World Airlines flight which was aircraft hijacking by Lebanon Shia Islamists on Friday morning, June 14, 1985, after originally taking off from Cairo, Egypt....
     was from Pinefield, the northern section of Waldorf


  • Senator and Astronaut John Glenn
    John Glenn

    John Herschel Glenn Jr. is a former astronaut who became the third person and first American to orbit the Earth, and later, United States Senate....
     trained at Patuxent River Naval Air Station
    Naval Air Station Patuxent River

    "Pax River" redirects here. For the river, see Patuxent River.Naval Air Station Patuxent River , also known as NAS Pax River, is a United States Naval Air Station located in Saint Mary's County, Maryland on Chesapeake Bay near the mouth of the Patuxent River....
     many years ago, as did Alan Shepard
    Alan Shepard

    Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. was the second person and the first United States in space. He later commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and was the List of Apollo astronauts....
     and other future astronauts.


Colleges

Colleges in Southern Maryland include:
  • The College of Southern Maryland
    College of Southern Maryland

    The College of Southern Maryland , founded in La Plata, Maryland, is a public, regional community college, which serves Southern Maryland through its campuses and training centers in Charles County, Maryland, St....
    , a community college with campuses in Charles, Calvert and St. Mary's counties
  • St. Mary's College of Maryland
    St. Mary's College of Maryland

    St. Mary's College of Maryland, established in 1840, is a public, secular liberal arts college located in St. Mary's City, Maryland. It is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges and designated as a Public Honors College ....