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Aberdeen, Maryland
Aberdeen is a city in Harford County, Maryland, United States. The population was 13,842 at the 2000 census. As with all Aberdeens outside Scotland, it was named after the original Aberdeen City by Scots emigrating from home. Aberdeen is the largest municipality in Harford County.
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AFI Silver
The AFI Silver is a three-screen movie theater complex in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, just north of Washington, D.C. in the United States of America. It plays both art-house and mainstream movies. It is run by the American Film Institute.
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Annapolis, Maryland
Annapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland, as well as the county seat of Anne Arundel County. It has a population of 36,524 (July 2008 est.), and is situated on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River, south of Baltimore and about east of Washington, D.C. Annapolis is part of the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The city was the temporary capital of the United States in 1783–1784 and the site of the Annapolis Peace Conference, held in November 2007, at the United States Naval Academy. St. John's College is also in Annapolis.
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Arbutus, Maryland
Arbutus is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The population was 20,116 at the 2000 census. The census area also contains the communities of Halethorpe and Relay, in which all three names were used during the 1960 census when the area had a population of 22,402. Residents of Arbutus are often called Arbutians.
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Arnold, Maryland
Arnold is a census-designated place (CDP) in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. The population was 23,422 at the 2000 census. Neighborhoods straddle College Parkway and Ritchie Highway. Arnold is located on the scenic Broadneck peninsula. The ZIP code is 21012.
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Ashton, Maryland
Ashton is an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland. The commercial center of Ashton lies at the junction of Route 108 (Ashton Road) and New Hampshire Avenue (Route 650).
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Aspen Hill, Maryland
Aspen Hill is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland. It got its name from aspen trees that once were found near the first post office in the area. The post office was located in a general store on what was then known as the Washington-Brookeville Pike (now the intersection of Connecticut and Georgia Avenues) and opened around 1864.
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Baltimore
Baltimore () is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the U.S. state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore City in order to distinguish it from surrounding Baltimore County. Founded in 1729, Baltimore is a major U.S. seaport and is situated closer to major Midwestern markets than any other major seaport on the East Coast. Baltimore's Inner Harbor was once the second leading port of entry for immigrants to the United States and a major manufacturing center. The harbor is now home to Harborplace, a shopping, entertainment, and tourist center, and the National Aquarium in Baltimore. After a decline in manufacturing, Baltimore shifted to a service-oriented economy. Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital are now the city's largest employers.
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Baltimore, Maryland
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Bethesda, Maryland
Bethesda is a census designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, just northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House (1820, rebuilt 1849), which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda. (In Aramaic, beth hesda means "House of Mercy" and in Hebrew, "bait" "chesed" means "House of Kindness".)
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Bowie, Maryland
Bowie () is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The population was 50,269 at the 2000 census. Bowie has grown from a small railroad stop to the largest municipality in Prince George's County, and the fifth most populous city and third largest city by area in the state of Maryland.
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Boyds, Maryland
Boyds, Maryland is an unincorporated community in rural Montgomery County, Maryland, located north of Washington, DC. Its ZIP Code is 20841.
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Brookmont, Maryland
Brookmont is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.
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Brookside Gardens
Brookside Gardens (50 acres) are public gardens located within Wheaton Regional Park, at 1800 Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, Maryland. The gardens themselves are open daily without charge. However, certain annual events there are held that may charge a nominal fee.
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Brunswick, Maryland
Brunswick is a city in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. The population was 4,894 at the 2000 census. The population was estimated to be at 5,230 in July 2006.
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Cabin John, Maryland
Cabin John is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. The community name is a corruption of its original name of "Captain John's Mills."
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Calverton, Maryland
Calverton is an unincorporated area and Census-designated place located on the boundary between Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, Maryland.
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Cambridge, Maryland
Cambridge is a city in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 10,911 at the 2000 census and 11,752 according to current July 2008 census estimates. It is the county seat of Dorchester County and the county's largest municipality. Cambridge is the fourth most populous city in Maryland's Eastern Shore region, after Salisbury, Elkton and Easton.
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Carderock, Maryland
Carderock, Maryland, is located in Montgomery County, Maryland, along the Potomac River. Carderock is just west of Bethesda.
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Carney, Maryland
Carney is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The population was 28,264 at the 2000 census.
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Chillum, Maryland
Chillum is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The population was 34,252 at the 2000 census. The Chillum CDP includes the communities of Avondale, Carole Highlands, Green Meadows, and Lewisdale.
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City Place Mall
City Place Mall, at the intersection of Fenton Street and Colesville Road (U.S. Route 29) in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, is a , five-story shopping mall that opened on April 2, 1992. It was formerly a Hecht Company department store, the first suburban Washington, D.C., branch of that company, which opened in 1947; the downtown Silver Spring Hecht's closed when the Hecht's at Wheaton Plaza opened in 1987. From its start, the mall included "upscale" discount stores including original tenants Nordstrom Rack and Ross Dress for Less. The mall also included an AMC movie theater on its fifth floor, but it closed shortly after a 20-screen Consolidated Theatres (now Regal Theaters) opened directly across Ellsworth Drive from City Place.
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Clarksburg, Maryland
Clarksburg is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in rural Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It has a population of 1,944 people.
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Clinton, Maryland
Clinton is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. Clinton was formerly known as Surrattsville until the time of the American Civil War. The population of Clinton was 26,064 at the 2000 census. However, as of 2007, there is an estimate of 35,096. The postal code for Clinton is 20735. Clinton is historically known for its role in the American Civil War concerning the Abraham Lincoln assassination. Clinton is adjacent to Camp Springs, Rosaryville, also known as Melwood, and Andrews Air Force Base. Brandywine is less than 15 miles southeast of Clinton.
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Cloverly, Maryland
Cloverly is a census-designated place and an unincorporated town in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.
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Colesville, Maryland
Colesville is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland in the USA.
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Columbia, Maryland
Columbia is a planned community that consists of ten self-contained villages, located in Howard County, Maryland, United States. Columbia is a suburb of Baltimore and Washington, D.C. It began with the idea that a city could enhance its residents' quality of life. Creator and developer James W. Rouse saw the new community in terms of human values, not just in terms of economics and engineering. Opened in 1967, Columbia was designed to not only eliminate the inconveniences of then-current subdivision design, but also eliminate racial, religious, and income segregation.
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Crofton, Maryland
Crofton is a census-designated place and planned community in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. Established in 1964, Crofton held its 40th birthday celebration in 2004.
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Cumberland, Maryland
Cumberland is a city in the far western portion of Maryland, United States. It is the county seat of Allegany County, and the primary city of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 21,591. Cumberland is a regional business and commercial center for Western Maryland and the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia.
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Damascus, Maryland
Damascus is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.
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Darnestown, Maryland
Darnestown is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.
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Delaware Valley
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Delmarva Peninsula
The Delmarva Peninsula is a large peninsula on the East Coast of the United States, occupied by Delaware and portions of Maryland and Virginia. The peninsula is almost 180 by 60 miles (300 by 100 km), and is bordered by the Chesapeake Bay on the west, and the Delaware River, Delaware Bay, and Atlantic Ocean on the east.
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Denton, Maryland
Denton is a town in Caroline County, Maryland, United States. The population was 2,960 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Caroline County. Denton is the birthplace of former Maryland governor Harry Hughes, former Delaware governor Sherman W. Tribbitt, and author Sophie Kerr. The town's ZIP code is 21629. The primary telephone exchange is 479 and the area code is 410. The town is served by Maryland Routes 404, 313, 328, and 16. It borders the Choptank River. It is home to WKDI radio (840 AM).
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Derwood, Maryland
Derwood is an unincorporated area of about 15,600 people in eastern Montgomery County, Maryland. It is a relatively dense area. It lies just east of Rockville, south east of Gaithersburg, south west of Olney, and north west of the greater Silver Spring, Maryland area. Residents of Derwood have the zip code 20855. The area was originally referred to as "Deer Park" and probably became "Deer Wood" which soon turned into "Derwood."
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Dickerson, Maryland
Dickerson is an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is located on Maryland Route 28, between Sugarloaf Mountain and the Potomac River. It is a community situated near the town of Poolesville, Maryland. Dickerson is 61.5 square miles.
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Drummond, Maryland
Drummond, Maryland is a village and special taxing district in Montgomery County, Maryland. Chartered in 1916, it is in the Chevy Chase, Maryland postal area. The village comprises two-thirds of Drummond Avenue.
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Dundalk, Maryland
Dundalk is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The population was 62,306 at the 2000 census. In 1960 and 1970, Dundalk was the largest unincorporated community in Maryland. It was named after the town of Dundalk, Ireland. Dundalk is considered one of the first inner-ring suburbs of Baltimore.
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Easton, Maryland
Easton is a town in Talbot County, Maryland, United States. The population was 11,708 at the 2000 census, and 14,677 according to current July 2008 census estimates. It is the county seat of Talbot County. The primary ZIP Code is 21601, and the secondary is 21606. The primary phone exchange is 822, the auxiliary exchanges are 820, 763, and 770, and the area code is 410. WINX-FM and WCEI-FM broadcast FM radio from the town.
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Edgewood, Maryland
Edgewood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Harford County, Maryland, United States. The population was 23,378 at the 2000 census.
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Eldersburg, Maryland
Eldersburg is a census-designated place (CDP) in Carroll County, Maryland, United States. The population was 27,741 at the 2000 census.
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Elkridge, Maryland
Elkridge is a census-designated place (CDP) in Howard County, Maryland, United States. The population was 22,042 at the 2000 census. Founded early in the 18th century, Elkridge is located at the confluence of three counties, the other two being Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties. It is bordered on the north by Catonsville, on the east by Linthicum and Baltimore-Washington International Airport, on the south by Dorsey, and on the west by Ellicott City and various small communities between it and Columbia.
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Elkton, Maryland
Elkton is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States. The population was 11,893 as of the 2000 census and 14,842 according to current July 2008 census estimates. It is the county seat of Cecil County. It was formerly called Head of Elk because it is located at the head of navigation on the Elk River, which flows into the nearby Chesapeake Bay.
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Essex, Maryland
Essex is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The population was 39,078 at the 2000 census.
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Fairland, Maryland
Fairland is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.
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Ferndale, Maryland
Ferndale is a census-designated place (CDP) in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the CDP population was 16,056.
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Frederick, Maryland
Frederick is a city in west-central Maryland, United States. It is the county seat of Frederick County, the largest county by area in the state of Maryland. Frederick is an outlying community of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of a greater Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2009 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the city has a total population of 59,644, making it the third-largest incorporated area in Maryland, behind Baltimore and Rockville.
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Georgia Avenue
Georgia Avenue is a major north-south artery in Northwest Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland. Within the District of Columbia and a short distance in Silver Spring, Maryland, Georgia Avenue is also U.S. Route 29. Both Howard University and Walter Reed Army Medical Center are located on Georgia Avenue.
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Germantown, Maryland
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Glen Echo, Maryland
Glen Echo is a town in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, that was chartered in 1904. The population was 242 at the 2000 census.
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Glenmont, Maryland
Glenmont is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, USA. The U.S. Census Bureau combines Glenmont with nearby Wheaton to create the Census Designated Place of Wheaton-Glenmont.
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Greenbelt, Maryland
Greenbelt is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. Contained within today's City of Greenbelt is the historic, planned community now known locally as "Old Greenbelt" and designated as the Greenbelt Historic District. Greenbelt's population was 21,456 at the 2000 census.
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Hillandale, Maryland
Hillandale is an unincorporated area located on the boundary between Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, Maryland.
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Howard University
Howard University is a federally chartered, non-profit, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university located in Washington, D.C., United States.
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Hyattstown, Maryland
Hyattstown is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. Established in 1798 and named after its founder, John Hyatt, this crossroad's town is located on Maryland Route 355 (formally known as "The Pike" or "The Great Road") in upper Montgomery County. In this full-service town, one could have found a place to stay at the local Hyattstown Inn, a one room school-house, a butcher, blacksmith and other commercial venues. Currently, these historical commercial buildings provide private homes for local residents.
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Kemp Mill, Maryland
Kemp Mill is a census-designated place and an unincorporated census area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. The population was 9,956 at the 2000 census.
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Kensington, Maryland
Kensington is a town in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,873 at the 2000 census. Greater Kensington encompasses the entire 20895 zip code and its population is an order of magnitude larger than that of the town at its center.
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Landover, Maryland
Landover is an unincorporated community in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, within the census-designated place of Greater Landover. Landover is home to the corporate headquarters of the Giant supermarket chain. The Prince Georges County Sports and Learning Complex is in Landover. Though small, Landover houses many neighborhoods which include: Glenarden, Brightseat, Ardmore, Palmer Park, Kentland, Dodge Park, Columbia Park, Willow Hills(Hill Rd), Belle Haven, Lansdowne, and Village Green. Metrorail's Orange Line passes through the community. Landover Hills is a separate, incorporated community a few miles away. Landover is the birthplace of the late Len Bias.
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Lanham, Maryland
Lanham is an unincorporated community in Prince George's County in the State of Maryland in the United States of America. Because it is not formally incorporated, it has no official boundaries, but the United States Census Bureau has defined a census-designated place consisting of Lanham and the adjacent community of Seabrook, designated Lanham-Seabrook, for statistical purposes. The terminal of Washington Metro's Orange Line, as well as an Amtrak station, are across the Capital Beltway in New Carrollton, Maryland. Doctors Community Hospital is located in Lanham.
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Lansdowne, Maryland
Lansdowne is a unincorporated community in southern Baltimore County, Maryland; just south of Baltimore city. The census combines the communities of Lansdowne and Baltimore Highlands (which are 1.5 miles apart [http://www.hometownlocator.com/PlacesDistance.cfm?Place1=Lansdowne&StateCode1;=MD&Place2;=Baltimore%20Highlands&StateCode2;=MD&Lat1;=39.245&Lon1;=-76.66083]) to create the Census-designated Place of Lansdowne-Baltimore Highlands. The Zip code for that serves the community is 21227.
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Laurel, Maryland
Laurel is a city in northern Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, located midway between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. Incorporated in 1870, the city maintains a historic district including its Main Street. The official 2007 population estimate for Laurel city was 21,619; adding the residents in Laurel's postal zip codes outside city limits, the population was 87,810 as of the 2000 census.
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Lochearn, Maryland
Lochearn is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, immediately to the west of Baltimore. The population was 25,269 at the 2000 census.
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Mall of America
Mall of America (also MOA, MoA, the Megamall) is a super-regional shopping mall located in the Twin Cities suburb of Bloomington, Minnesota, USA. The mall is located southeast of the junction of Interstate 494 and Minnesota State Highway 77, north of the Minnesota River and is across the interstate from the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. It is the second largest mall in North America, after the West Edmonton Mall, in Edmonton, Canada. In the United States, it is the largest mall in terms of retail space but is second largest in terms of total enclosed floor area. Opened in 1992, the mall received 40 million visitors in 2006. Triple Five Group, owned by Canada's Ghermezian family, owns and manages the Mall of America, as well as the West Edmonton Mall.
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Maryland
Maryland () is an American state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Maryland has the highest median household income of any state, with a median income of $70,545. Maryland was the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution, and three nicknames for it, the Old Line State, the Free State, and the Chesapeake Bay State are occasionally used.
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Norbeck, Maryland
Norbeck is the area of Montgomery County, Maryland around Norbeck Road (Maryland Route 28) east of Georgia Avenue to Layhill Road.
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Nordstrom Rack
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Ocean City, Maryland
Ocean City, sometimes known as OC, or OCMD, is an Atlantic Ocean resort town in Worcester County, Maryland, United States. Ocean City is widely known in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and is a frequent destination for vacationers in that area. The population was 7,173 at the 2000 census, although during summer weekends the city hosts between 320,000 and 345,000 vacationers.
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Odenton, Maryland
Odenton is a census-designated place (CDP) in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. The population was 20,534 at the 2000 census. The town is named after former Governor of Maryland, Oden Bowie. It is bordered by Gambrills to the east, Severn to the north, Fort Meade to the west, and Crofton to the south. It is located at the intersection of Maryland routes 170 and 175 and is parallel to Route 32. The zipcode is 21113. It is often mispronounced "Odington" or "oDENton."
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Olney, Maryland
Olney, a census-designated place and an unincorporated area of Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, located in the north central part of the county, twenty miles north of Washington, D.C. It was largely agricultural until the 1960s, when growth of the Washington suburbs led to its conversion into a mostly residential area. As generally defined, Olney had a total population of 31,438 in the 2000 census. In July 2007, Money magazine ranked Olney as 17 (the highest ranked town in Maryland) out of 100 in its "America's Best Places To Live" edition.
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Oxon Hill, Maryland
Oxon Hill is part of the Oxon Hill-Glassmanor census-designated place (CDP) in southern Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. Oxon Hill is located immediately south of Washington, DC and east of Alexandria, Virginia. It is the home of the new National Harbor development on the shore of the Potomac River .
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Parkville, Maryland
Parkville is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2000 census, the CDP population was 31,118.
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Perry Hall, Maryland
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Pikesville, Maryland
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Potomac, Maryland
Potomac is a census-designated place (CDP) in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, named for the nearby Potomac River. The population was 44,822 at the 2000 census. The Potomac area is known for its very affluent and highly-educated residents. In 2009 CNNMoney.com listed Potomac as the fourth most affluent town in the United States. Potomac is also the seventh most top-educated American small town according to Forbes. Many Potomac residents work in Washington, D.C..
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Redland, Maryland
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Richmond, Virginia
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Rockville, Maryland
Rockville is the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is a major incorporated city in the central part of Montgomery County and forms part of the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. According to estimates conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for a 12-month period ending 1 July 2008, the city's population is 60,734, making it the second largest incorporated city in Maryland, behind Baltimore.
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Rosedale, Maryland
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Salisbury, Maryland
Salisbury () is a city in southeastern Maryland, United States. It is the county seat of Wicomico County, Maryland and the largest city in Maryland's Eastern Shore region. The city's population was 23,743 at the 2000 census. Salisbury is the principal city of the Salisbury, Maryland Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the Salisbury-Ocean Pines, Maryland Combined Statistical Area. The city is the commercial hub of the Delmarva Peninsula and is sometimes called "the Crossroads of Delmarva".
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Severn, Maryland
Severn is a census-designated place (CDP) in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. The population was 35,076 at the 2000 census, which is a 30 percent increase over the 24,499 population of 1990. The zipcode is 21144.
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Sligo Creek
Sligo Creek is a free-flowing tributary of the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River in Maryland. (The Anacostia, in turn, feeds into the Potomac River and eventually empties into the Atlantic Ocean via Chesapeake Bay.) The creek is approximately 8.3 mi (13.4 km) long, with a drainage area of about 11.6 mi2 (38 km2).
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Somerset, Maryland
Somerset is a town in Montgomery County, Maryland, near its border with Washington, D.C.. The population was 1,124 at the 2000 census. Somerset is not to be confused with Somerset County, Maryland, which has no relationship with the town; the two are about 150 miles apart.
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South Gate, Maryland
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Southern Maryland
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Suitland, Maryland
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Takoma Park
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Takoma Park, MD
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The Barrie School
Barrie School, formerly the Peter Pan School, is an independent school for all grades of pre-collegiate education located in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC.
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Timonium, Maryland
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Towson, Maryland
Towson is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The population was 51,793 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Baltimore County and the second-most populated unincorporated county seat in the United States (after Ellicott City, Maryland).
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Travilah, Maryland
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United States
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Waldorf, Maryland
Waldorf is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Charles County, Maryland. It is south-southeast of Washington, D.C. The population of the census-designated area only (excluding St. Charles) was 22,311 at the 2000 census. Waldorf was settled before 1900 as a rural crossroads with a train station and was called "Beantown" after a local family. Waldorf is now largely subsumed by the large planned community of St. Charles.
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Washington, D.C.
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Western Maryland
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Westfield Wheaton
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Wheaton High School
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White Oak, Maryland
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Blair Lee I
Francis Preston Blair Lee (August 9, 1857 – December 25, 1944) was a Democratic member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1914-1917. He was also the great-grandson of American patriot Richard Henry Lee, and grandfather of former Maryland Governor Blair Lee III. Lee was named after his maternal grandfather Francis Preston Blair.
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Charles Fefferman
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Dred Scott
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Fred Wesley
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J. Millard Tawes
John Millard Tawes (April 8, 1894 June 25, 1979), a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 54th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1959 to 1967. He remains the only Marylander to be elected to the three positions of State Treasurer, Comptroller, and Governor.
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John Eberson
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Jubal Anderson Early
Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) was a lawyer and Confederate general in the American Civil War. He served under Stonewall Jackson and then Robert E. Lee for almost the entire war, rising from regimental command to lieutenant general and the command of an infantry corps in the Army of Northern Virginia. He was the Confederate commander in key battles of the Valley Campaigns of 1864, including a daring raid to the outskirts of Washington, D.C. The articles written by him for the Southern Historical Society in the 1870s established the Lost Cause point of view as a long-lasting literary and cultural phenomenon.
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Lewis Black
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Michael Ealy
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Montgomery Blair
Montgomery Blair (May 10, 1813 – July 27, 1883), the son of Francis Preston Blair, elder brother of Francis Preston Blair, Jr. and cousin of B. Gratz Brown, was a politician and lawyer from Maryland. He was a loyal member of the Cabinet of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
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Robert E. Lee
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Samuel Phillips Lee
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Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American jazz and Western classical virtuoso trumpeter and composer. He is Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted the appreciation of Classical and Jazz music, often focusing on young audiences.
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DOWNTOWN SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND (ST. PATRICK'S DAY 2012)
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- Published: 18 Mar 2012
- Updated: 25 Sep 2012
Bob Smoke testing out a new camera & rig setup in downtown Silver Spring, MD. Enjoy!! Artist: Jayy Tu-Wize @jaytuwize Song: Moco Bounce Producer: Tone P. @bkstonep Visuals: Bob Smoke @bobsmoke Watch the official Moco Bounce video by Jayy Tu-Wise here: www.youtube.com
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African Contemporary Dance Flash Mob - Downtown Silver Spring, MD
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- Duration: 5:35
- Published: 03 Jun 2012
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
Watch a group of young people as they performed an African Contemporary Dance Flash Mob in the Downtown Silver Spring area. The musical tracks consisted of favorite African music all matched by dance moves that were beautifully choreographed. Enjoy!
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Sony Action Cam - Obstacle Course Fairland Park Silver Spring Maryland
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- Published: 29 Sep 2012
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Obstacle Run Fairland Park Silver Spring Maryland Sony HDR-AS15 Action Video Camera Switchback Test Run Sony HDR-AS15 Action Video Camera by Mady at Failrland Park Silver Spring Maryland Sony HDR-AS15 Action Video Camera, Sony HDR-AS15, Action Cam
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Allstar Weekend - Intro + Do It To Me - Silver Spring, MD - 8/17/12 (HD)
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- Duration: 6:38
- Published: 29 Sep 2012
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
Allstar Weekend playing Do It To Me in Silver Spring, MD at The Fillmore August 17th.
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Real estate for sale in Silver Spring MD - MC7880127
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- Published: 16 Jul 2012
- Updated: 16 Jul 2012
Real estate for sale at 1811 Alberti Dr Silver Spring MD 20902 - for more info visit sonyaokin.com - Updated and upgradedcape cod in great location near metro and shopping. 4brs on 3 lvls. newer kitchen w/ silestone and stainless steel. finished hdwd flrs on 2 upper levels. crown and chair moldings. sep dr w/ french dr to 3-season room on rear. finished bsmnt w/ classic knotty pine built-ins. newer windows hvac + sec sys. backyd w/ paver patiolg shed veg flower gardens. - For other real estate listings in this area visit www.longandfoster.com.
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Successful Ethiopian Festival in Silver Spring, Maryland- July 22, 2012-Part I
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- Published: 23 Jul 2012
- Updated: 15 Sep 2012
Filmed by : BolePark.com Part I
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Successful Ethiopian Festival in Silver Spring, Maryland- July 22, 2012-Part II
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- Duration: 8:09
- Published: 23 Jul 2012
- Updated: 12 Aug 2012
Filmed by : BolePark.com Part II
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Flash Mob of 50 'Young People' Swarm and Steal from a Silver Spring, Maryland 7-Eleven
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- Published: 30 Nov 2011
- Updated: 17 Sep 2012
November 19, 2011 at approximately 11:23 pm, Silver Spring officers responded to the 7-Eleven store located at 12257 Tech Road for the report of a mass theft. Preliminary investigation revealed that approximately 50 "teens" and "young adults" simultaneously entered the 7-Eleven and stole items, to include snacks and drinks. www.washingtonpost.com scene/post/flash-mob-reported-at-montgomery- convenience-store/2011/11/21/gIQAbiGMjN_blog.html This video abides by the "Fair Use" provisions of Title17 Chapter 1 Article 107 of the US Copyright Law. Notably it is a non-profit video intended for educational purposes only. The conclusions drawn in this video do not necessarily represent the opinions or beliefs of the indivisuals within. www.ourcivilisation.com www.newnation.org www.resist.com reasonradionetwork.com
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Orion Condos - New Silver Spring Maryland
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- Published: 06 Aug 2012
- Updated: 06 Aug 2012
Welcome to the Orion Condos located in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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The Adventures of FLYINGPEBBLE in Silver Spring Maryland
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- Published: 12 Jul 2012
- Updated: 18 Sep 2012
Harrison Stone
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DownTown Silver Spring, MD
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- Published: 13 Sep 2011
- Updated: 15 Jul 2012
Filmed by: Idrissa Toure, Tony Cao, and Minh-Tu Nguyen Edited by: Minh-Tu Nguyen Location: Woodside, and Metro 4 in Downtown Silver Spring
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Ethiopian Missing - Aster Solomon Gesesse from Silver Spring, Maryland Missing Since Aug. 30
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Ethiopian Missing - Aster Solomon Gesesse from Silver Spring, Maryland Missing Since Aug. 30
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New 2013 Audi A8 Video at Audi Silver Spring, MD
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- Published: 01 Aug 2012
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
New 2013 Audi A8 Video at Audi Silver Spring, MD
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Fat Trel Live at The Fillmore in Silver Spring, Maryland ..( The Underground Kings Concert )
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- Duration: 4:20
- Published: 27 Mar 2012
- Updated: 02 Oct 2012
Filmed and edited by: @MackVisions Download Fat Trel's Nightmare On E Street www.livemixtapes.com
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Medical Assistant Training in Silver Spring, MD - EKG Test - FOX 5 DC
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- Duration: 5:37
- Published: 29 Nov 2011
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
su.pr FOX DC's Holly Morris was at the Medtech Institute Silver Spring campus to take a deeper look into the medical assistant training at Medtech. In part one of this three part series, a Medtech graduate demonstrates performing an EKG test. They also discuss what it was like for the graduates when they first started. One of the students began at Medtech as an ESL student before enrolling in the medical assistant program. You can learn more about the ESL program here su.pr Medtech has three DC area campuses, all of which offer medical assisting.
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Tyga (LIVE) in Silver Spring, MD - Careless World Tour 3/5/2012
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- Duration: 6:23
- Published: 06 Mar 2012
- Updated: 24 Aug 2012
Directed By: Dro Victorious
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Home Renovation in Silver Spring, MD
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- Duration: 11:45
- Published: 24 Feb 2012
- Updated: 24 Feb 2012
Here is a complete home renovation to prepare a home for sale, complete renovation, bathrooms, modern open kitchen with stainless steel appliances, foyer, custom book shelves, hard wood floors, new electrical
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Marilyn Manson "The Beautiful People" live at the Fillmore in Silver Spring, MD 05/01/2012
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- Published: 02 May 2012
- Updated: 18 May 2012
Marilyn Manson closes out his set at the Fillmore in Silver Spring, MD with the Beautiful People on 05/01/2012 Pictures on my tumblr page: frontrowcenter.tumblr.com
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Kidane Mihret 2012 (Yekatit) at Silver Spring Maryland
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- Published: 28 Feb 2012
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MIndless behavior Private concert silver spring maryland 1/7/12
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- Published: 08 Jan 2012
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
WARNING TURN YOUR VOLUME DOWN BEFORE YOU WATCH dont steal my video please and if you make a GIF out of it please credit me tumblr: im2mindless2care.tumblr.com twitter: Rissa__xoxo Princeton grinds ALOT In this video !!
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Alif Laila, sitar, Raag Kedar, Alaap/Jor, Feb '12 concert
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- Published: 21 Feb 2012
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
Alif Laila: solo sitar, at One Circle Center, Silver Spring MD February 4th 2012. Raag Kedar, Alaap/Jor (clips).
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GUNS N' ROSES Axl Piano solo + Madagascar Silver Spring MD 2012
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- Published: 28 Mar 2012
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
GUNS N' ROSES Feb 23 2012 @Fillmore Silver Spring,MD #UCAP Clip of the line outside around 8.30pm End of..Another Brick In The Wall jam Axl's Piano Solo: Gran Torino,Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,Someone Saved My Life Tonight) MADAGASCAR w/intro clip of Paradise City Amazing show..Axl was still sick and they played for over 3 hours..sounded great! During Madagascar, Jim caught "DJ's" drum stick and gave it to me so that is when the camera went down. The stick flew right between us. Also you can hear a jerkoff shouting, "Play something we know!" during intro of Madagascar. The sign out front said small personal cameras were OK but later security came through the line and told everyone to put digital cameras back in the car. I kept mine anyway, but was not looking to get thrown out, so just enjoy the audio, if not the video too. Was kind of packed tight...Thanks for watching and thanks GN'R!! Check out my GN'R photo collection on Flickr: www.flickr.com
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Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar @ The Fillmore Silver Spring 5/1/2012
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- Published: 02 May 2012
- Updated: 05 Jul 2012
Marilyn Manson performing Antichrist Superstar live at The Fillmore in Silver Spring, MD
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Sheraton Silver Spring Offers Ideal Location just North of Downtown Washington, D.C. STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) today announced the opening of Sheraton Silver Spring Hotel, just north of downtown Washington, D.C. The hotel is ideally...(size: 10.5Kb)
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Dr. Sammy Noumbissi from Miles of Smiles Implant Dentistry now proudly places both CeraRoot and Z-Systems zirconia ceramic, metal-free dental implants at his office in Silver Spring, Maryland....(size: 4.4Kb)
KBR’s Building Group to Construct The Heritage at Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland
12 Jul 2011
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HOUSTON - KBR (NYSE: KBR) today announced that its Building Group has been awarded a contract by a joint venture sponsored by Priderock Capital Partners LLC to construct The Heritage at Georgia Avenue, an apartment complex, in Silver Spring, Maryland. The Building Group’s Washington regional office...(size: 3.2Kb)
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Metro Washington D.C. Office Named International Headquarters , April 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Manatron, Inc., a leader in providing integrated property tax and land administration software for governments worldwide, announced today that it has established the office of recently...(size: 3.9Kb)
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Having had the privilege and pleasure to be born and raised within a Chinese family, gaining access to rice and tea and being associated with take-out cuisine are two aspects that form the essence of Chinese food trends in the United States, or anywhere in the Western world. However, as there are...(size: 5.6Kb)
Altarum Institute Acquires Silver Spring, Maryland-Based Communications Firm Palladian Partners, Inc.
03 Feb 2011
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Acquisition of Palladian Partners Provides Altarum with Vital New Health Communications and Marketing Capabilities ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Altarum Institute President and CEO Lincoln Smith announced today that Altarum has finalized its acquisition of Silver Spring, Maryland-based Palladian Partners,...(size: 4.4Kb)
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Silver Spring Maryland Jazz Festival 20
15 Sep 2010
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I arrived after six, so this describes the last three main acts, going until about 11 PM. Great sound system! You can literally feel the vibrations of the bass drum and bass. The crowd is thick; rich food smells; a diverse crowd, heavily African American and other black and brown people. A couple...(size: 7.7Kb)
Home Properties Brings Green Living to 1200 East West and the Silver Spring, Maryland Community
10 Aug 2010
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| Silver Spring, Maryland | |
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| Coordinates: 39°0′15″N 77°1′8″W / 39.00417°N 77.01889°W / 39.00417; -77.01889 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Maryland |
| County | Montgomery |
| Area | |
| • Total | 9.4 sq mi (24.4 km2) |
| • Land | 9.4 sq mi (24.4 km2) |
| • Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 341 ft (104 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 71,452 |
| • Density | 7,600/sq mi (2,900/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP codes | 20901, 20902, 20903, 20904, 20905, 20906, 20910 |
| Area code(s) | 301, 240 |
| FIPS code | 24-72450 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0591290 |
Silver Spring is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It had a population of 71,452 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth most populous place in Maryland, after Baltimore, Columbia, and Germantown.[1]
The urbanized, oldest, and southernmost part of Silver Spring is a major business hub that lies at the north apex of Washington, D.C. As of 2004, the Central Business District (CBD) held 7,254,729 square feet (673,986 m2) of office space, 5216 dwelling units and 17.6 acres (71,000 m2) of parkland. The population density of this CBD area of Silver Spring was 15,600 per square mile all within 360 acres (1.5 km2) and approximately 2.5 square miles (6 km2) in the CBD/downtown area.[2] The community has recently undergone a significant renaissance, with the addition of major retail, residential, and office developments.
Silver Spring takes its name from a mica-flecked spring discovered there in 1840 by Francis Preston Blair, who subsequently bought much of the surrounding land. Acorn Park, tucked away in an area of south Silver Spring away from the main downtown area, is believed to be the site of the original spring.[3]
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Geography[link]
As an unincorporated area, Silver Spring's boundaries are not officially defined. Residents of a huge swath of Montgomery County have Silver Spring mailing addresses. This area extends roughly from the Washington, D.C., Prince George's County, Maryland and Howard County, Maryland lines to the south, east and north, and Rock Creek Park and Plyers Mill Road to the west and north-west. These boundaries make Silver Spring larger in area than any city in Maryland except for Baltimore. Among some notable landmarks is the world headquarters of Discovery Communications, the AFI Silver, and the headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The United States Census Bureau defines Silver Spring as a census-designated place whose center is located at 39°1' North latitude, 77°1' West longitude. The United States Geological Survey locates the center of Silver Spring at 38°59′26″N 77°1′35″W / 38.99056°N 77.02639°W / 38.99056; -77.02639, notably some distance from the Census Bureau's datum. By another definition, Silver Spring is located at 39°0′15″N 77°1′8″W / 39.00417°N 77.01889°W / 39.00417; -77.01889 (39.004242, -77.019004).[4] The definitions used by the Silver Spring Urban Planning District, the United States Postal Service, the Greater Silver Spring Chamber of Commerce, etc., are all different, each defining it for its own purposes.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the community has a total area of 9.4 square miles (24 km2), all land; however, it does contain numerous creeks and small lakes.
Parks and recreation[link]
Rock Creek Park passes along the west side of Silver Spring, and offers hiking trails, picnic grounds, and bicycling on weekends, when its main road, Beach Drive, is mostly closed to motor vehicles.
Sligo Creek Park follows Sligo Creek through Silver Spring; it offers hiking trails, tennis courts, playgrounds and bicycling. The latter is facilitated on weekends, when parts of Sligo Creek Parkway are closed to autos. The bike trails are winding and slower than most in the region. Recently, rocks have been spread along either side of the road, providing a hazardous bike ride, or skating leisure.
Acorn Park in the downtown area of Silver Spring is believed to be the site of the eponymous "silver spring".
The 14.5-acre (59,000 m2) Jesup Blair Park was recently renovated and has a soccer field, tennis courts, basketball courts, and picnic area.[5]
Brookside Gardens is a 50-acre (20 ha) park within Wheaton Regional Park, in "greater" Silver Spring. It is located on the original site of Stadler Nursery (now in Laytonsville, Maryland).
Demographics[link]
| Historical populations | |||
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| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1960 | 66,348 |
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| 1970 | 77,496 | 16.8% | |
| 1980 | 72,893 | −5.9% | |
| 1990 | 76,046 | 4.3% | |
| 2000 | 76,540 | 0.6% | |
| 2010 | 71,452 | −6.6% | |
| source:[6][7] note: land area of Silver Spring CDP reduced by 15% for 2010 census |
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2010[link]
Note: For the 2010 Census the boundaries of the Silver Spring CDP were changed reducing the land area by approx. 15%. As a result, the population count for 2010 shows a 6.6% decrease, while the population density increases 11%.
As of the 2010 census, there were 71,452 people, 28,603 households, and 15,684 families residing in the Silver Spring CDP. The population density was 9,021.7 people per square mile (3,485.5/km²). There were 30,522 housing units at an average density of 3,853.8 per square mile (1,488.9/km²). The racial makeup of the community was 45.7% White, 27.8% African American, 0.6% Native American, 7.9% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 13.2% from other races, and 4.8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino people of any race consist of 26.3% of the population.
There were 28,603 households out of which 27.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.6% were married couples living together, 11.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 45.2% were non-families. Thirty-three point six percent (33.6%) of all households are made up of individuals living alone and 16.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.49 and the average family size was 3.21.
In the census area, the population was spread out with 21.4% under the age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24, 37.1% from 25 to 44, 23.8% from 45 to 64, and 8.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33.8 years. For every 100 females there were 94.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.2 males.
The median income for a household in the census area was $62,187, and the median income for a family was $77,541. Males had a median income of $46,407 versus $49,979 for females. The per capita income for the area was $32,181. 15.0% (+/- 4.9%) of the population and 13.3% (+/-4.3%) of families were below the poverty line. 21% (+/- 9.1%) of those under the age of 18 and 23.6% (+/-10.6%)of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.
2000[link]
For the 2000 census,[8] there were 76,540 people, 30,374 households, and 17,616 families residing in the census area (if all areas with the "Silver Spring" address are included, the population swells to around 250,000). The population density was 8,123.6 people per square mile (3,137.2/km²). There were 31,208 housing units at an average density of 3,312.3 per square mile (1,279.1/km²). The racial makeup of the community was 46.61% White, 28.07% African American, 0.44% Native American, 8.22% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 11.55% from other races, and 5.04% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino people of any race consist of 22.22% of the population.
There were 30,374 households out of which 29.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.8% were married couples living together, 12.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 42.0% were non-families. Thirty-two point six percent (32.6%) of all households are made up of individuals and 7.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 3.21.
In the census area, the population was spread out with 23.0% under the age of 18, 9.3% from 18 to 24, 37.0% from 25 to 44, 21.2% from 45 to 64, and 9.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 93.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.5 males.
The median income for a household in the census area was $51,653, and the median income for a family was $60,631. Males had a median income of $38,124 versus $36,096 for females. The per capita income for the area was $26,357. 9.3% of the population and 6.4% of families were below the poverty line. 11.7% of those under the age of 18 and 9.7% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.
History[link]
Nineteenth century[link]
The Blair, Lee, and Jalloh families, three politically active families of the time, are irrefutably tied to Silver Spring's history. In 1840, Francis Preston Blair, who later helped organize the modern American Republican Party, along with his daughter, Elizabeth, discovered a spring flowing with chips of mica (the now-dry spring is still visible at Acorn Park). Two years later, he completed a twenty-room mansion he dubbed Silver Spring on a 250 acre (one-square-kilometer) country homestead situated just outside of Washington, D.C. (The house stood until 1954.[9]) By 1854, Blair's son, Montgomery Blair, who became Postmaster General under Abraham Lincoln and represented Dred Scott before the United States Supreme Court, built the Falkland house in the area. By the end of the decade, Elizabeth Blair married Samuel Phillips Lee, third cousin of future Confederate leader Robert E. Lee, and gave birth to a boy, Francis Preston Blair Lee. The child would eventually become the first popularly elected Senator in United States history.
During the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln visited the Silver Spring mansion multiple times. During some of the visits he relaxed by playing town ball with Francis P. Blair's grandchildren.[10] In 1864, Confederate Army General Jubal Early occupied Silver Spring prior to the Battle of Fort Stevens. After the engagement, fleeing Confederate soldiers razed Montgomery Blair's Falkland residence. By the end of the 19th century, the region began to develop into a town of decent size and importance. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Metropolitan Branch was completed in 1873 and ran from Washington, D.C. to Point of Rocks, Maryland through Silver Spring. The first suburban development appeared in 1887 when Selina Wilson divided part of her farm on current-day Colesville Road (U.S. Route 29) and Brookeville Road into five- and ten-acre (20,000- and 40,000 m²) plots. In 1893, Francis Preston Blair Lee and his wife, Anne Brooke Lee, gave birth to E. Brooke Lee, who is known as the father of modern Silver Spring for his visionary attitude toward developing the region.[citation needed]
Twentieth century[link]
The early 20th century set the pace for downtown Silver Spring's growth. E. Brooke Lee and his brother, Blair Lee I, founded the Lee Development Company, whose Colesville Road office building remains a downtown fixture. Dale Drive, a winding roadway, was built to provide vehicular access to much of the family's substantial real estate holdings. Suburban development continued in 1922 when Woodside Development Corporation created Woodside Park, with 1 acre (4,000 m²) plot home sites. In 1924, Washington trolley service on Georgia Avenue (present-day Maryland Route 97) across B&O's Metropolitan Branch was temporarily suspended so that an underpass could be built. The underpass was completed two years later, but trolley service never resumed. It would be rebuilt again in 1948 with additional lanes for automobile traffic, opening the areas to the north for readily accessible suburban development.
Takoma-Silver Spring High School, built in 1924, was the first high school for Silver Spring. The community's rapid growth led to the need for a larger school. In 1935, when a new high school was built at Wayne Avenue and Sligo Creek Parkway, it was renamed Montgomery Blair High School. (The school remained at that location for over six decades, until 1998, when it was moved to a new, larger facility at the corner of Colesville Road (U.S. Route 29) and University Boulevard (Maryland Route 193). The former high school building became a combined middle school and elementary school.) The Silver Spring Shopping Center and Silver Theatre (designed by noted theatre architect John Eberson) were completed in 1938, at the request of developer William Alexander Julian. The shopping center was unique because it was one of the nation's first retail spaces that featured a street-front parking lot. Conventional wisdom held that merchandise should be in windows closest to the street so that people could see it; the shopping center broke those rules.
By the 1950s, Silver Spring was the second busiest retail market between Baltimore and Richmond, with the Hecht Company, J.C. Penney, Sears, Roebuck and Company, and a number of other retailers. In 1954, after standing for over a century, the Blair mansion "Silver Spring" was razed and replaced with the Blair Station Post office. In 1960, Wheaton Plaza (later known as Westfield Wheaton), a shopping center several miles north of downtown Silver Spring opened, and captured much of the town's business. The downtown area soon started a long period of decline.
In December 1961, a short segment of the Capital Beltway (I-495) was opened to traffic between Georgia Avenue (MD 97) and University Boulevard East (MD 193).[11] On Monday, August 17, 1964, the final segment of the 64-mile (103 km) Beltway was opened to traffic,[12] and a ribboncutting ceremony was held near the New Hampshire Avenue interchange, with a speech by then-Gov. J. Millard Tawes.[13]
Washington Metro rail service into Washington, D.C. helped breathe life into the region starting in 1978 with the opening of Silver Spring station. The Metro Red Line was built following the alignment of the B&O Metropolitan Branch, with the Metro tracks centered between the B&O's eastbound and westbound mains. The Red Line heads south to downtown DC from Silver Spring, running at grade before descending into Union Station. By the mid-1990s, the Red Line continued north from the downtown Silver Spring core, entering a tunnel just past the Silver Spring station and running underground to three more stations, Forest Glen, Wheaton and Glenmont.
Nevertheless, the decline continued in the 1980s, as the Hecht Company, downtown's last remaining department store, closed and opened a new store at Wheaton Plaza. Furthermore, Hecht's added a covenant forbidding another department store from renting its old spot. City Place, a multi-level mall, was established in the old Hecht Company building in 1992, but it had trouble attracting quality anchor stores and gained a reputation as a budget mall, anchored by Burlington Coat Factory and Marshalls, as well as now-closed anchors AMC Theaters, Gold's Gym, Steve and Barry's, and Nordstrom Rack. In the mid-1990s, developers considered building a mega-mall and entertainment complex called the American Dream (similar to the Mall of America) in downtown Silver Spring, but the revitalization plan fell through before any construction began because the developers were unable to secure funding.
Another notable occurrence in Silver Spring during the 1990s was a 1996 train collision on the Silver Spring section of the Metropolitan line. On February 16 of that year, during the Friday-evening rush hour, a MARC commuter train bound for Washington Union Station collided with the Amtrak Capitol Limited train and erupted in flames on a snow-swept stretch of track in Silver Spring, leaving eleven people dead.
The Maryland State Highway Administration started studies of improvements to the Capital Beltway in 1993,[14] and have continued, off and on, examining a number of alternatives (including HOV lanes and Express Toll Lanes) since then.
Twenty-first century[link]
At the beginning of the 21st century, downtown Silver Spring began to see the results of redevelopment. Several city blocks near City Place Mall were completely reconstructed to accommodate a new outdoor shopping plaza called "Downtown Silver Spring." New shops included national retail chains such as Whole Foods Market, a 20-screen Regal Theatres, Men's Wearhouse, Ann Taylor Loft, DSW Shoe Warehouse, Office Depot, and Pier 1 Imports, as well as many restaurants, including Romano's Macaroni Grill, Panera Bread, Red Lobster, Cold Stone Creamery, Fuddruckers, Potbelly Sandwich Works, Baja Fresh, Nando's, and Chick-fil-a. A Borders book store was a popular spot until it closed when the chain went out of business. In addition to these chains, Downtown Silver Spring is home to a wide variety of family-owned restaurants representing its vast ethnic diversity. As downtown Silver Spring revived, its 160-year history was celebrated in a PBS documentary entitled Silver Spring: Story of an American Suburb, released in 2002. In 2003, Discovery Communications completed the construction of its headquarters and relocated to downtown Silver Spring from nearby Bethesda. The same year also brought the reopening of the Silver Theatre, as AFI Silver, under the auspices of the American Film Institute. Development continues with the opening of new office buildings, condos, stores, and restaurants, although City Place Mall continues to struggle to fill its vacancies despite the explosive growth around it. The restoration of the old B&O Passenger Station was undertaken between 2000 and 2002, as recorded in the documentary film Next Stop: Silver Spring.[15][16]
Beginning in 2004, the downtown redevelopment was marketed locally with the "silver sprung" advertising campaign, which declared on buses and in print ads that Silver Spring had "sprung" and was ready for business.[17] In June 2007, The New York Times noted that downtown was "enjoying a renaissance, a result of public involvement and private investment that is turning it into an arts and entertainment center".[18]
In 2007, the downtown Silver Spring area gained attention when an amateur photographer was prohibited from taking photographs in what appeared to be a public street. The land, leased to the Peterson Cos., a developer, for $1, was technically private property. The citizens argued that the Downtown Silver Spring development, partially built with public money, was still public property. After a protest on July 4, 2007, Peterson relented and allowed photography on their property under limited conditions. Peterson also claimed that it could revoke these rights at any time. The company further stated that other activities permitted in public spaces, such as organizing protests or distributing campaign literature, were still prohibited.[19] In response, Montgomery County Attorney Leon Rodriguez said that the street in question, Ellsworth Drive, "constitutes a public forum" and that the First Amendment's protection of free speech applies there. In an eight-page letter, Rodriguez wrote, "Although the courts have not definitively resolved the issue of whether the taking, as opposed to the display, of photographs is a protected expressive act, we think it is likely that a court would consider the taking of the photograph to be part of the continuum of action that leads to the display of the photograph and thus also protected by the First Amendment."[20] The incident was part of a trend in the United States regarding the blurring of public and private spaces in developments built with both public and private funds.
In 2008, construction of the long-planned Intercounty Connector (ICC), which crosses the upper reaches of Silver Spring, got under way. The highway's first section opened on February 21, 2011; the entire route was completed by 2012.
In July 2010, the Silver Spring Civic Building and Veterans Plaza opened in downtown Silver Spring.
Culture[link]
Downtown Silver Spring hosts several entertainment, musical, and ethnic festivals, the most notable of which are the Silverdocs documentary film festival held each June and hosted by Discovery Communications and the American Film Institute, as well as the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade (Saturday before Thanksgiving) for Montgomery County. The Silver Spring Jazz Festival has become the biggest event of the year drawing 20,000 people to the free festival held on the second Saturday in September. Featuring local jazz artists and a battle of high school bands, the Silver Spring Jazz Festival has featured such jazz greats as Wynton Marsalis, Arturo Sandoval and such bands as the Mingus Big Band and the Fred Wesley Group.
Dining in Silver Spring is also extremely varied, including American, African, Burmese, Ethiopian, Moroccan, Italian, Mexican, Salvadoran, Jamaican, Vietnamese, Lebanese, Thai, Chinese, Indian, and fusion restaurants, as well as many national and regional chains.
Silver Spring has many churches, synagogues, temples, and other religious institutions, including the World Headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Silver Spring serves as the primary urban area in Montgomery County and its revitalization has ushered in an eclectic mix of people and ideas, evident in the fact that the flagship high school (Montgomery Blair High School) has no majority group with each major racial and ethnic group claiming a significant percentage.
Silver Spring hosts the American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Culture Center, on Colesville Road. The theatre showcases American and foreign films. Discovery Communications, a cable TV and satellite programming company, has its headquarters in downtown, as well. Gandhi Brigade, a youth development media project, began in Silver Spring out of the Long Branch neighborhood. Docs in Progress, a non-profit media arts center devoted to the promotion of documentary filmmaking is located at the "Documentary House" in downtown Silver Spring. Silver Spring Stage [2], an all-volunteer community theater, performs in Woodmoor, approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north up Colesville Road from the downtown area. Downtown Silver Spring is also home to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency of the United States Department of Commerce that includes the National Weather Service; the American Nurses Association; and numerous real estate development, biotechnology, and media and communications companies.
Transportation[link]
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The major roads in Silver Spring are mostly 3-5 lane highways. The Capital Beltway can be accessed from Georgia Avenue (MD 97), Colesville Road (US 29), and New Hampshire Avenue (MD 650).
The long-planned Intercounty Connector (ICC) (designated Maryland Route 200) toll road was completed in early 2012. It has interchanges at Georgia Avenue, Layhill Road (MD 182), New Hampshire Avenue, Columbia Pike (as US 29 is known north of Lockwood Drive) and a half-interchange at Briggs Chaney Road.[citation needed]
Silver Spring is serviced by the Brunswick Line of the MARC Train, Metrorail Red Line, Metrobus, Ride On, and the free VanGo. The bus terminal at the Silver Spring Rail Station is the busiest in the entire Washington Metro Area, and provides connections between several transit services, including those mentioned above. This transit facility serves nearly 60,000 passengers daily. Construction commenced in October 2008 on the new $91 million Paul S Sarbanes Transit Center which will further expand the station to facilitate the growing demand for public transportation, due to the increase in population in the Silver Spring area. The new center will be a multilevel, multimodal facility which will incorporate Metrobus, Ride On, Metrorail, MARC train, intercity Greyhound bus, and local taxi services under one roof.[21]
The Purple Line light rail, being studied by the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) is planned to service this station, if a final environmental impact statement is completed and funds are secured for it, connecting Silver Spring with Bethesda to the west and then running east to the University of Maryland-College Park and then southeast to the New Carrollton Metro station. In 2008, Gov. Martin O'Malley assigned $100 million of the state budget for planning and engineering of the Purple Line. The MTA estimates the Purple Line could carry 68,000 person-trips per day.[22] Construction is planned to begin in 2012. In addition to the Silver Spring station, the Washington Metrorail's Forest Glen station is also located in Silver Spring and the MARC train also stops at the nearby Kensington station.
Education[link]
Silver Spring is served by a county-wide public school system, Montgomery County Public Schools. Public high schools that serve the region include Montgomery Blair High School, Albert Einstein High School, Wheaton High School, James Hubert Blake High School, Northwood High School, Paint Branch High School, John F. Kennedy High School, Springbrook High School, and Bethesda Chevy Chase High School. Of the public high schools in the region, Montgomery Blair High School is the only one within the Census Designation Place of Silver Spring. It is nationally recognized for its Communication Arts Program and its Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science Magnet Program, the latter of which perennially produces a large number of finalists and semi-finalists in such academic competitions as the Intel Science Talent Search. Notable private schools in the region include The Siena School, Yeshiva of Greater Washington, Torah School of Greater Washington, and The Barrie School.
A portion of the Montgomery College Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus is located within the Silver Spring boundary, with the rest of the campus located in Takoma Park. The community college is Montgomery County's main institute of higher education. (The main campus is in the county seat of Rockville.) Adjacent to the White Oak neighborhood in the outer reaches of Silver Spring is the campus of the National Labor College. Howard University also has its School of Continuing Education in Silver Spring (its main campus is located nearby in Washington, D.C.). Formerly Sanz School, Medtech Institute is located in Silver Spring and offers training in healthcare, but most notably English as a Second Language. Sanz School started offering English language education in 1939.
Libraries[link]
Silver Spring is served by at least five public libraries of which one – the Silver Spring branch of Montgomery County Public Libraries – is located in downtown Silver Spring. Four other libraries are Wheaton, Marilyn J. Praisner(formerly Fairland),[23] White Oak[24] and Long Branch.[25] The Silver Spring library, one of the most heavily used in the Montgomery County system, is being renovated, enlarged, and relocated to Wayne Ave. and Fenton St. as part of the Silver Spring redevelopment plan.
Economy[link]
Among the companies based in Silver Spring are the hotel franchisor Choice Hotels and the media company Discovery Communications.
Sports[link]
The Silver Spring Saints Youth Football Organization has been a mainstay of youth sports in the town since 1951. Located in Silver Spring, Maryland, the Silver Spring Saints play home games at St. Bernadette's Church near Blair High School. The club was formed when two local Catholic parishes, St. John the Baptist and St. Andrews, merged their football programs to compete in the Capital Beltway League after the CYO (Catholic Youth Organization) for the Archdiocese of Washington D.C. discontinued its youth football program at the end of the 1994 season. The name "Saints" is derived from the merging of the two Catholic parishes. In 2009, the Saints moved from the Captial Beltway League (CBL) to the Mid-Maryland Youth Football & Cheer League (MMYFCL).
Silver Spring is also home to several MCSL swim teams, including Robin Hood, Calverton, Franklin Knolls, Daleview, Oakview, Forest Knolls, Kemp Mill, Long Branch, Stonegate, Glenwood, Rock Creek, and Northwest Branch, Stonegate, Hillandale, and West Hillandale
Silver Spring and Takoma Park together host Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts a college wooden-bat baseball team playing in the Cal Ripken, Sr. Collegiate Baseball League. Home games are played at Montgomery Blair Stadium.
The Potomac Athletic Club Rugby team has a youth rugby organization based in Silver Spring. Established in 2005, PAC Youth Rugby has tag rugby for ages 5 thru 15, girls and boys and also offer introduction to tackle rugby for U13 and U15 players. In addition to introducing numerous young athletes to the sport of rugby, PAC has also won Maryland state championships across the age groups.
Notable people from Silver Spring[link]
- Charles Fefferman, (b.1949) mathematician
- Lewis Black, (b.1948) comedian
- Michael Ealy, (b.1985) Actor
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ "Geographic Comparison Table, 2010 Census Redistricting Data Summary File, Maryland: By Place". U.S. Census Bureau American Factfinder. http://factfinder2.census.gov. Retrieved June 17, 2011.
- ^ "Silver Spring Regional Center - Downtown Silver Spring". Montgomerycountymd.gov. 2006-02-03. http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgtmpl.asp?url=/Content/RSC/SilSprng/DowntownDevelopment/welcome.asp. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
- ^ "Acorn Park". Celebrate Silver Spring Foundation. 2006. http://www.silverspringdowntown.com/spring.php?pid=327. Retrieved 2007-03-24.
- ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
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- ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ McCoy, Jerry A. (August 2003). "Silver Spring Then & Again". Takoma Voice. http://www.silverspringvoice.com/archives/copy/2003/08/features_thenAgain.html. Retrieved 2009-03-03.
- ^ McCoy, Jerry A. (2009-02-06). "Abe Lincoln in Silver Spring". Silver Spring Voice. http://www.takoma.com/ssthenagain/2009/02/abe-lincoln-in-silver-spring.html. Retrieved 2009-03-03. [dead link]
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- ^ "Executive Records, Governor J. Millard Tawes, 1959-1967". Maryland State Archives. 1964-08-17. http://aomol.net/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000082/html/am82b--582.html. Retrieved 2008-10-05.
- ^ "State officials study HOV lanes for Capital Beltway". The Gazette. 1997-09-24. http://www.gazette.net/gazette_archive/1997/199739/montgomerycty/county/a61704-1.html. Retrieved 2008-10-09.
- ^ "Next Stop: Silver Spring". Silverspringtrain.blogspot.com. 1964-09-03. http://silverspringtrain.blogspot.com/. Retrieved 2009-07-17. [dead link]
- ^ "Next Stop: Silver Spring - Trailer". 2007-11-15. http://youtube.com/watch?v=p6rKVuyz4Nw. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
- ^ "Takoma Voice: News". Takoma.com. http://www.takoma.com/archives/copy/2004/06/silversprung.html. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
- ^ Eugene L. Meyer, "A Dose of Art and Entertainment Revives a Suburb", New York Times, June 13, 2007
- ^ Marc Fisher, "Public or Private Space? Line Blurs in Silver Spring", Washington Post, June 21, 2007
- ^ Ruben Castaneda, "County Opinion Rejects Photo Limits", Washington Post, July 31, 2007
- ^ Info on construction of the Paul S Sarbanes Transit Center: Silver Spring Transit Center. Montgomery County, Maryland.
- ^ Katherine Shaver (2008-05-30). "Trips on Purple Line Rail Projected at 68,000 Daily". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/29/AR2008052902261.html. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
- ^ "MCPL: Wheaton Library". Montgomerycountymd.gov. http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/Apps/Libraries/branchinfo/wh.asp. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
- ^ "MCPL: White Oak Library". Montgomerycountymd.gov. 2009-02-04. http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/Apps/Libraries/branchinfo/wo.asp. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
- ^ "MCPL: Long Branch Library". Montgomerycountymd.gov. 2009-05-13. http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/Apps/Libraries/branchinfo/lb.asp. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
Further reading[link]
- McCoy, J, et al. (2003). Silver Spring Timeline. Retrieved August 6, 2003 from "Silver Spring history".
- McCoy, Jerry A. and Silver Spring Historical Society. Historic Silver Spring. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2005.
External links[link]
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Government sites[link]
- The Silver Spring Regional Center
- M-NCPPC, Montgomery County Department of Park and Planning
- Purple Line Study (Maryland Transit Administration)
- Intercounty Connector (Maryland State Highway Administration)
- Maryland Capital Beltway Study (Maryland Department of Transportation)
Newspapers[link]
Documentary Films[link]
Organizations[link]
- Silver Spring Downtown District
- Silver Spring Historical Society
- Downtown Silver Spring
- South Silver Spring Neighborhood Association
- Greater Silver Spring Chamber of Commerce
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| Capital | Annapolis | ||||
| Largest city | Baltimore | ||||
| Largest metro area | Baltimore-Washington Metro Area | ||||
| Area | Ranked 42nd in the U.S. | ||||
| - Total | 12,407 sq mi (32,133 km2) |
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| - Width | 101 miles (163 km) | ||||
| - Length | 249 miles (400 km) | ||||
| - % water | 21 | ||||
| - Latitude | 37° 53′ N to 39° 43′ N | ||||
| - Longitude | 75° 03′ W to 79° 29′ W | ||||
| Population | Ranked 19th in the U.S. | ||||
| - Total | 5,828,289 (2011 est)[3] | ||||
| - Density | 596/sq mi (230/km2) Ranked 5th in the U.S. |
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| - Median household income | $69,272[4] (1st) | ||||
| Elevation | |||||
| - Highest point | Hoye-Crest[5][6] 3,360 ft (1024 m) |
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| - Mean | 350 ft (110 m) | ||||
| - Lowest point | Atlantic Ocean[5] sea level |
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| Admission to Union | April 28, 1788 (7th) | ||||
| Governor | Martin O'Malley (D) | ||||
| Lieutenant Governor | Anthony G. Brown (D) | ||||
| Legislature | General Assembly | ||||
| - Upper house | Senate | ||||
| - Lower house | House of Delegates | ||||
| U.S. Senators | Barbara Mikulski (D) Ben Cardin (D) |
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| U.S. House delegation | 6 Democrats, 2 Republican (list) | ||||
| Time zone | Eastern: UTC-5/-4 | ||||
| Abbreviations | MD US-MD | ||||
| Website | www.maryland.gov | ||||
Maryland (
i/ˈmɛrɨlənd/)[7] is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east. Maryland was the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution, and three nicknames for it (the Old Line State, the Free State, and the Chesapeake Bay State) are occasionally used. Maryland is the 9th smallest state by area, but the 19th most populous and the 5th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state's most populated city is Baltimore. Its capital is Annapolis. It was named after Queen Henrietta Maria.
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Geography[link]
Physical geography[link]
See also: List of islands in Maryland and List of rivers in Maryland
Maryland has an area of 12,406.68 square miles (32,133.2 km2) and is comparable in overall area with the European country of Belgium (11,787 square miles (30,530 km2)).[8] It is the 42nd largest/9th smallest state, and is closest in size to Hawaii (10,930.98 square miles (28,311.1 km2)), the next smallest state. The next largest state, Maryland's neighbor West Virginia, is almost twice the size of Maryland (24,229.76 square miles (62,754.8 km2)).
Maryland possesses a variety of topography, hence its nickname, "America in Miniature."[9] It ranges from sandy dunes dotted with seagrass in the east, to low marshlands teeming with wildlife and large bald cypress near the bay, to gently rolling hills of oak forest in the Piedmont Region, and pine groves in the mountains to the west.
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Physical regions of Maryland.
Maryland is bounded on its north by Pennsylvania, on its west by West Virginia, on its east by Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean, and on its south, across the Potomac River, by West Virginia and Virginia. The mid-portion of this border is interrupted on the Maryland side by Washington, D.C., which sits on land that was originally part of Maryland. The Chesapeake Bay nearly bisects the state, and the counties east of the bay are known collectively as the Eastern Shore.
Most of the state's waterways are part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, with the exceptions of a tiny portion of extreme western Garrett County (drained by the Youghiogheny River as part of the watershed of the Mississippi River), the eastern half of Worcester County (which drains into Maryland's Atlantic coastal bays), and a small portion of the state's northeast corner (which drains into the Delaware River watershed). So prominent is the Chesapeake in Maryland's geography and economic life that there has been periodic agitation to change the state's official nickname to the Bay State, a nickname that has actually been used by Massachusetts for a long time.
The highest point in Maryland, with an elevation of 3,360 feet (1,020 m), is Hoye Crest on Backbone Mountain, in the southwest corner of Garrett County, near the border with West Virginia and near the headwaters of the North Branch of the Potomac River. Close to the small town of Hancock, in western Maryland, about two-thirds of the way across the state, there is only 1.83 miles (2.95 km) between its borders. This geographical curiosity makes Maryland the narrowest state, bordered by the Mason-Dixon Line to the north, and the northwards-arching Potomac River to the south.
Portions of Maryland are included in various official and unofficial geographic regions. For example, the Delmarva Peninsula is composed of the Eastern Shore counties of Maryland, the entire state of Delaware, and the two counties that make up the Eastern Shore of Virginia, whereas the westernmost counties of Maryland are considered part of Appalachia. Much of the Baltimore–Washington corridor lies just south of the Piedmont in the Coastal Plain,[10] though it straddles the border between the two regions.
A quirk of the geography of Maryland is the absence of any natural lakes,[11] though there are numerous ponds. During the latter Ice Ages, the glaciers did not reach as far south as Maryland, and therefore they did not carve out the deep natural lakes that exist in states farther north. There are numerous man-made lakes, the largest of these being the Deep Creek Lake, a reservoir in Garrett County in westernmost Maryland. The lack of a glacial history also accounts for Maryland's soil, which is sandier and muddier than the rocky soils farther to the north and northeast.
Human geography[link]
See also: List of counties in Maryland, List of incorporated places in Maryland, and List of census-designated places in Maryland
The majority of Maryland's population is concentrated in the cities and suburbs surrounding Washington, D.C., and also in and around Maryland's most populous city, Baltimore. Historically, these and many other Maryland cities developed along the Fall Line, the line along which rivers, brooks, and streams are interrupted by rapids and/or waterfalls. Maryland's capital city, Annapolis, is one exception to this pattern, since it lies along the banks of the Severn River, close to where it empties into the Chesapeake Bay.
The other population centers of Maryland include suburban areas of Columbia in Howard County; Silver Spring, Rockville, and Gaithersburg in Montgomery County; Laurel, College Park, Greenbelt, Hyattsville, Landover, Clinton, Bowie, and Upper Marlboro in Prince George's County; Frederick in Frederick County; Hagerstown in Washington County; Waldorf in Charles County; Pikesville, Essex, and Towson in Baltimore County; and Glen Burnie and Hanover in Anne Arundel.
The eastern, southern, and western portions of the state tend to be more rural, although they are dotted with cities of regional importance such as Salisbury and Ocean City on the Eastern Shore, Lexington Park and Waldorf in Southern Maryland, and Cumberland in Western Maryland.
Maryland's history as a border state has led it to exhibit characteristics of both the Northern and Southern regions of the United States. Generally, rural Western Maryland between the West Virginian Panhandle and Pennsylvania has an Appalachian culture; the Southern and Eastern Shore regions of Maryland embody a Southern culture,[12] while densely-populated Central Maryland—radiating outward from Baltimore and Washington, D.C.—has more in common with that of the Northeast.[13] The U.S. Census Bureau designates Maryland as one of the South Atlantic States, but it is commonly associated with the Mid-Atlantic States and/or Northeastern United States by other federal agencies, the media, and some residents.[14][15][16][17][18]
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Baltimore's Inner Harbor
Climate[link]
Maryland has a wide array of climates, due to local variances in elevation, proximity to water, and protection from colder weather due to downslope winds.
The eastern half of Maryland lies on the Atlantic Coastal Plain, with very flat topography and very sandy or muddy soil. This region has a humid subtropical climate, with hot, humid summers and a short, mild to cool winter. This region includes the cities of Salisbury, Annapolis, Ocean City, and southern and eastern greater Baltimore.
Beyond this region lies the Piedmont which lies in the transition between the humid subtropical climate zone and the subtropical highland zone (Köppen Cfb), with hot, humid summers and cool winters where average annual snowfall exceeds 20 inches (510 mm) and temperatures below 10°F are annual occurrences. This region includes Frederick, Hagerstown, Westminster, Gaithersburg and northern and western greater Baltimore.
Farther into western Maryland, the higher elevations of Allegany County and Garrett County lie in the subtropical highland (Köppen Cfb)[19] zone. Due to their elevation (more typical of the Appalachian mountain region) with milder summers and cool, and snowy winters, far west Maryland has a humid continental climate often similar to that of south-central Pennsylvania, with Cumberland listed as one of the regional cities by Altoona's WTAJ weather center. Cumberland and Oakland have hot, humid summers and cold, snowy winters.
Precipitation in the state is characteristic of the East Coast. Annual rainfall ranges from 35 to 45 inches (890 to 1,100 mm) with more in higher elevations.[20] Nearly every part of Maryland receives 3.5–4.5 inches (89–110 mm) per month of rain. Average annual snowfall varies from 9 inches (23 cm) in the coastal areas to over 100 inches (250 cm) in the western mountains of the state.[21] Maryland's highest recorded temperature is 109 °F (43 °C) at Cumberland and Frederick both on July 10, 1936 while the coldest recorded temperature is −40 °F (−40 °C) at Oakland on January 13, 1912.[citation needed]
Because of its location near the Atlantic Coast, Maryland is somewhat vulnerable to tropical cyclones, although the Delmarva Peninsula, and the outer banks of North Carolina to the south provide a large buffer, such that a strike from a major hurricane (category 3 or above) is not very likely but is not impossible. More often, Maryland might get the remnants of a tropical system which has already come ashore and released most of its wind energy. Maryland averages around 30–40 days of thunderstorms a year, and averages around six tornado strikes annually.[22]
| Monthly normal high and low temperatures for various Maryland cities | ||||||||||||
| City | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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| Hagerstown | 38 °F (3 °C) 21 °F (−6 °C) |
42 °F (6 °C) 23 °F (−5 °C) |
52 °F (11 °C) 31 °F (−1 °C) |
63 °F (17 °C) 41 °F (5 °C) |
74 °F (23 °C) 51 °F (11 °C) |
82 °F (28 °C) 60 °F (16 °C) |
86 °F (30 °C) 64 °F (18 °C) |
84 °F (29 °C) 62 °F (17 °C) |
77 °F (25 °C) 55 °F (13 °C) |
66 °F (19 °C) 43 °F (6 °C) |
54 °F (12 °C) 35 °F (2 °C) |
43 °F (6 °C) 27 °F (−3 °C) |
| Frederick | 41 °F (5 °C) 25 °F (−4 °C) |
46 °F (8 °C) 27 °F (−3 °C) |
56 °F (13 °C) 35 °F (2 °C) |
67 °F (19 °C) 44 °F (7 °C) |
77 °F (25 °C) 54 °F (12 °C) |
85 °F (29 °C) 62 °F (17 °C) |
89 °F (32 °C) 67 °F (19 °C) |
87 °F (31 °C) 66 °F (19 °C) |
80 °F (27 °C) 59 °F (15 °C) |
68 °F (20 °C) 47 °F (8 °C) |
57 °F (14 °C) 38 °F (3 °C) |
46 °F (8 °C) 30 °F (−1 °C) |
| Baltimore | 44 °F (7 °C) 30 °F (−1 °C) |
47 °F (8 °C) 31 °F (−1 °C) |
57 °F (14 °C) 39 °F (4 °C) |
68 °F (20 °C) 48 °F (9 °C) |
77 °F (25 °C) 58 °F (14 °C) |
86 °F (30 °C) 68 °F (20 °C) |
91 °F (33 °C) 73 °F (23 °C) |
88 °F (31 °C) 71 °F (22 °C) |
81 °F (27 °C) 64 °F (18 °C) |
70 °F (21 °C) 52 °F (11 °C) |
59 °F (15 °C) 42 °F (6 °C) |
49 °F (9 °C) 33 °F (1 °C) |
| Ocean City | 44 °F (7 °C) 28 °F (−2 °C) |
46 °F (8 °C) 30 °F (−1 °C) |
53 °F (12 °C) 35 °F (2 °C) |
61 °F (16 °C) 44 °F (7 °C) |
70 °F (21 °C) 53 °F (12 °C) |
79 °F (26 °C) 62 °F (17 °C) |
84 °F (29 °C) 67 °F (19 °C) |
83 °F (28 °C) 67 °F (19 °C) |
78 °F (26 °C) 62 °F (17 °C) |
68 °F (20 °C) 51 °F (11 °C) |
58 °F (14 °C) 41 °F (5 °C) |
49 °F (9 °C) 32 °F (0 °C) |
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Flora[link]
As is typical of states on the East Coast, Maryland's plant life is abundant and healthy. A good dose of annual precipitation helps to support many types of plants, including seagrass and various reeds at the smaller end of the spectrum to the gigantic Wye Oak, a huge example of White oak, the state tree, which can grow in excess of 70 feet (21 m) tall.
Middle Atlantic coastal forests, typical of the southeastern Atlantic coastal plain, grow around Chesapeake Bay and on the Delmarva Peninsula. Moving west, a mixture of Northeastern coastal forests and Southeastern mixed forests cover the central part of the state. The Appalachian Mountains of western Maryland are home to Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests. These give way to Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests near the West Virginia border.[24]
Many foreign species are cultivated in the state, some as ornamentals, others as novelty species. Included among these are the Crape Myrtle, Italian Cypress, live oak in the warmer parts of the state,[25] and even hardy palm trees in the warmer central and eastern parts of the state.[26] USDA plant hardiness zones in the state range from Zone 5 in the extreme western part of the state to 6 and 7 in the central part, and Zone 8 around the southern part of the coast, the bay area, and most of metropolitan Baltimore. Invasive plant species, such as kudzu, tree of heaven, multiflora rose, and Japanese stiltgrass, stifle growth of endemic plant life.[27] Maryland's state flower, the Black-eyed Susan, grows in abundance in wild flower groups throughout the state. The state insect, the Baltimore Checkerspot Butterfly, is not common as it is near the southern edge of its range.[28] 435 species of birds have been reported from Maryland.[29]
Fauna[link]
The state harbors a great number of deer, especially in the woody and mountainous west of the state, and overpopulation can become a problem from year-to-year. Mammals can be found ranging from the mountains in the west to the central areas and include bears,[30] bobcats,[31] foxes, coyote,[32] raccoons, and otters.[30]
There is a population of rare[30][33] wild horses found on Assateague island. Every year during the last week of July wild horses are captured and waded across a shallow bay for sale at Chincoteague, Virginia. This conservation technique ensures the tiny island is not overrun by the horses.[citation needed]
A purebred animal from Maryland is the Chesapeake Bay Retriever dog. It was bred specifically for water sports, hunting and search and rescue in the Chesapeake area.[34] The Chesapeake Bay Retriever was the first breed recognized by the American Kennel Club in 1878.[34] The University of Maryland- Baltimore County (UMBC) bears the Retriever as its mascot.[citation needed]
Maryland's reptile and amphibian population is led by the Diamondback Terrapin turtle, which was adopted as the mascot of University of Maryland, College Park. The state is the territory of the Baltimore Oriole, which is the official state bird and mascot of the MLB team the Baltimore Orioles.[35]
Environmental awareness[link]
Maryland is one of the most environmentally friendly states in the country. In 2007, Forbes.com rated Maryland as the fifth "Greenest" state in the country behind three of the Pacific States and Vermont. Maryland ranks 40th in total energy consumption nationwide, and it managed less toxic waste per capita than all but six states in 2005.[36] In April 2007 Maryland joined the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)—a regional initiative formed by all of the Northeastern states, Washington D.C., and three Canadian provinces to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
History[link]
Main article: History of Maryland
In 1629, George Calvert, 1st Lord Baltimore in the Irish House of Lords, fresh from his failure further north with Newfoundland's Avalon colony, applied to Charles I for a new royal charter for what was to become the Province of Maryland. Calvert's interest in creating a colony derived from his Catholicism and his desire for the creation of a haven for Catholics in the new world. In addition, he was familiar with the fortunes that had been made in tobacco in Virginia, and hoped to recoup some of the financial losses he had sustained in his earlier colonial venture in Newfoundland. George Calvert died in April 1632, but a charter for "Maryland Colony" (in Latin, "Terra Maria") was granted to his son, Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore, on June 20, 1632. The new colony was named in honor of Henrietta Maria of France, wife of Charles I of England.[37] The specific name given in the charter was phrased "Terra Mariae, anglice, Maryland". The English name was preferred over the Latin due in part to the undesired association of "Mariae" with the Spanish Jesuit Juan de Mariana.[38][39]
To try to gain settlers, Maryland used what is known as the headright system, which originated in Jamestown.
On March 25, 1634, Lord Baltimore sent the first settlers into this area. Although most of the settlers were Protestants, Maryland soon became one of the few regions in the English Empire where Catholics held the highest positions of political authority. Maryland was also one of the key destinations of tens of thousands of English convicts.
The royal charter granted Maryland the land north of the entire length of the Potomac River up to the 40th parallel. A problem arose when Charles II granted a charter for Pennsylvania. The grant defined Pennsylvania's southern border as identical to Maryland's northern border, the 40th parallel. But the terms of the grant clearly indicate that Charles II and William Penn assumed the 40th parallel would pass close to New Castle, Delaware when in fact it falls north of Philadelphia, the site of which Penn had already selected for his colony's capital city. Negotiations ensued after the problem was discovered in 1681.
A compromise proposed by Charles II in 1682, which might have resolved the issue, was undermined by Penn's receiving the additional grant of what is now Delaware—which previously had been part of Maryland.[40] The dispute remained unresolved for nearly a century, carried on by the descendants of William Penn and Lord Baltimore—the Calvert family, which controlled Maryland, and the Penn family, which controlled Pennsylvania. The conflict led to the Cresap's War (also known as the Conojocular War), a border conflict between Pennsylvania and Maryland, fought in the 1730s. Hostilities erupted in 1730 with a series of violent incidents prompted by disputes over property rights and law enforcement, and escalated through the first half of the decade, culminating in the deployment of military forces by Maryland in 1736 and by Pennsylvania in 1737. The armed phase of the conflict ended in May 1738 with the intervention of King George II, who compelled the negotiation of a cease-fire. A provisional agreement had been established in 1732. Negotiations continued until a final agreement was signed in 1760. The agreement defined Maryland's border with what is now Delaware as well as Pennsylvania. The border between Maryland and Pennsylvania was defined as the line of latitude 15 miles (24 km) south of the southernmost house of Philadelphia, a line now known as the Mason-Dixon Line. Maryland's border with Delaware was based on a Transpeninsular Line and the Twelve-Mile Circle around New Castle.[40]
After Virginia made Anglicanism the established religion of the colony, numerous Puritans migrated from Virginia to Maryland, and were given land for a settlement called Providence (now Annapolis). In 1650, the Puritans revolted against the proprietary government and set up a new government that outlawed both Catholicism and Anglicanism. In March 1654, the 2nd Lord Baltimore sent an army under the command of Governor William Stone to put down the revolt, which was decisively defeated by a Puritan army near Annapolis in what was to be known as the Battle of the Severn[41][42] During the persecution of Catholics by the Puritan revolt, all of the original Catholic churches of southern Maryland were burned down. The Puritan revolt lasted until 1658 when the Calvert family regained control of the colony and re-enacted the Toleration Act. However, after England's "Glorious Revolution" of 1688, when William of Orange came to the throne and established the Protestant faith in England, Maryland outlawed Catholicism until after the American Revolutionary War. Many wealthy Catholic planters built chapels on their land to practice their religion in relative secrecy.
St. Mary's City was the largest site of the original Maryland colony, and was the seat of the colonial government until 1708. St Mary's is now a historical site, with a small tourist center. In 1708, the seat of government was moved to Providence, which had been renamed Annapolis. The city was renamed in honor of Queen Anne in 1694.
Most of the English colonists arrived in Maryland as indentured servants, hiring themselves out as laborers for a fixed period to pay for their passage.[43] In the early years the line between indentured servants and African slaves or laborers was fluid, and white and black laborers lived and worked together.
Many of the free black families migrated to Delaware, where land was cheaper.[44] As the flow of indentured laborers to the colony decreased with improving economic conditions in England, thousands more slaves were imported and racial caste lines hardened. The economy's growth and prosperity was based on slave labor, devoted first to the production of tobacco.
Maryland was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. On February 2, 1781, Maryland became the 13th state to approve the ratification of the Articles of Confederation which brought into being the United States as a united, sovereign and national state. It also became the seventh state admitted to the U.S. after ratifying the new Constitution. In December 1790, Maryland donated land selected by President George Washington to the federal government for the creation of the new national capital of Washington, D.C. The land was provided from Montgomery and Prince George's counties, as well as from Fairfax County and Alexandria in Virginia; however, the land donated by Virginia was later returned to that state by the District of Columbia retrocession.
During the War of 1812, the British military attempted to capture the port of Baltimore, which was protected by Fort McHenry. It was during this bombardment that the Star Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key.
As in Delaware, numerous planters in Maryland had freed their slaves in the twenty years after the Revolutionary War. By 1860 Maryland's free black population comprised 49.1% of the total of African Americans in the state.[45] This contributed to the state's remaining loyal to the Union during the American Civil War. In addition, Governor Thomas Holliday Hicks temporarily suspended the state legislature, and President Abraham Lincoln had many of its fire eaters arrested prior to its reconvening.
Federal military units arrived in President Street Station and were forced to march through Baltimore where they were attacked by an unruly mob. The incident was the first bloodshed in the Civil War and has been dubbed the "Baltimore riot of 1861". When the telegraph lines to Washington and an iron railbridge were destroyed by the citizens of Baltimore, the federal government was isolated in Washington D.C.. During the fighting between civilians and the soldiers from the 6th Mass. regiment several soldiers were hit by stones and a musket was fired. The soldiers were ordered to march at double time, and it became a running gun battle, with two Union-soldiers shot and killed, while two others, including Corporal Needham, were knocked from the ranks and beaten to death by the enraged mob. Eventually the Union troops reached the safety of Camden Station[46].
President Lincoln's initial promise not to let more of the northern defenders of the acutely endangered federal capitol march through Baltimore forced a large part of the reinforcement of the capitol to take a slow route by ship.
Of the 115,000 men who joined the military during the Civil War 85,000, or 77%, joined the Union army, while the remainder joined the Confederate Army. To help ensure Maryland's inclusion in the Union, President Lincoln suspended several civil liberties, including the writ of habeas corpus, an act deemed illegal by Maryland native Chief Justice Roger Taney. Lincoln ordered U.S. troops to place artillery on Federal Hill to threaten the city of Baltimore, and helped ensure the election of a new pro-union governor and legislature. Lincoln went so far as to jail certain pro-South members of the state legislature at Fort McHenry, including the Mayor of Baltimore, George William Brown. The grandson of Francis Scott Key was included in those jailed. The constitutionality of these actions is still debated.
Because Maryland remained in the Union, it was exempted from the anti-slavery provisions of the Emancipation Proclamation (The Emancipation Proclamation only applied to states in rebellion). In 1864 the state held a constitutional convention that culminated in the passage of a new state constitution. Article 24 of that document outlawed the practice of slavery. In 1867 the state extended suffrage to non-white males.
Demographics[link]
| Historical populations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1790 | 319,728 |
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| 1800 | 341,548 | 6.8% | |
| 1810 | 380,546 | 11.4% | |
| 1820 | 407,350 | 7.0% | |
| 1830 | 447,040 | 9.7% | |
| 1840 | 470,019 | 5.1% | |
| 1850 | 583,034 | 24.0% | |
| 1860 | 687,049 | 17.8% | |
| 1870 | 780,894 | 13.7% | |
| 1880 | 934,943 | 19.7% | |
| 1890 | 1,042,390 | 11.5% | |
| 1900 | 1,188,044 | 14.0% | |
| 1910 | 1,295,346 | 9.0% | |
| 1920 | 1,449,661 | 11.9% | |
| 1930 | 1,631,526 | 12.5% | |
| 1940 | 1,821,244 | 11.6% | |
| 1950 | 2,343,001 | 28.6% | |
| 1960 | 3,100,689 | 32.3% | |
| 1970 | 3,922,399 | 26.5% | |
| 1980 | 4,216,975 | 7.5% | |
| 1990 | 4,781,468 | 13.4% | |
| 2000 | 5,296,486 | 10.8% | |
| 2010 | 5,773,552 | 9.0% | |
| Source: 1910-2010[47] | |||
The United States Census Bureau estimates that the population of Maryland was 5,828,289 on July 1, 2011, a 0.95% increase since the 2010 United States Census.[3]
As of 2006, Maryland has an estimated population of 5,615,727, which is an increase of 26,128, or 0.5%, from the prior year and an increase of 319,221, or 6.0%, since the year 2000. This includes a natural increase since the last census of 189,158 people (that is 464,251 births minus 275,093 deaths) and an increase due to net migration of 116,713 people into the state. Immigration from outside the United States resulted in a net increase of 129,730 people, and migration within the country produced a net loss of 13,017 people.
In 2006, 645,744 were counted as foreign born, which represents mainly people from Latin America and Asia. About 4.0% are undocumented (illegal) immigrants.[48] Maryland also has a large Korean American population.[49] In fact, 1.7% are Korean, while as a whole, almost 6.0% are Asian.[50]
Most of the population of Maryland lives in the central region of the state, in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area and Washington Metropolitan Area, both of which are part of the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The Eastern Shore is less populous and more rural, as are the counties of western and southern Maryland.
The two counties of Western Maryland, Allegany and Garrett, are mountainous and sparsely populated, resembling West Virginia more than they do the rest of Maryland.
The center of population of Maryland is located on the county line between Anne Arundel County and Howard County, in the unincorporated town of Jessup.[51]
Ethnicity[link]
In terms of race and ethnicity, the state is 58.2% White (54.7% non-Hispanic White alone), 29.4% Black or African American, and 5.5% Asian. Hispanics and Latinos of any race make up 8.2% of the population.[52] The five largest reported ancestries in Maryland are German (15.7%), Irish (11.7%), English (9%), unspecified American (5.8%), and Italian (5.1%).[53]
In 1970, the Census Bureau reported Maryland's population as 17.8% African-American and 80.4% non-Hispanic White.[54]
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African-Americans form a sizable portion of the state's population – nearly 30% in 2010[52] – including many immigrants from Nigeria, particularly the Igbo tribe.[55] Although populous in most of the state, large concentrations of African-American population can be found in Baltimore City, Prince George's County, Charles County, Randallstown, and the southern Eastern Shore. Most of the Eastern Shore and Southern Maryland are populated by Marylanders of British ancestry, with the Eastern Shore traditionally Methodist and the southern counties Catholic. Western and northern Maryland have large German-American populations. Italians, Poles, Czechs and Greeks are centered mostly in the large city of Baltimore. Hispanics are numerous in Hyattsville/Langley Park, Wheaton, Bladensburg, Riverdale, Gaithersburg and Highlandtown in East Baltimore. Jews are numerous throughout Montgomery County and in Pikesville and Owings Mills northwest of Baltimore. Asian Americans are concentrated in the suburban counties surrounding Washington, D.C., especially evident by a Korean American and Taiwanese American community in Rockville and a Filipino American community in Fort Washington. Amish/Mennonite communities are found in St. Mary's and Garrett counties.
Maryland has one of the largest proportions of racial minorities in the country, trailing only the four minority-majority states.[56]
| By race | White | Black | AIAN* | Asian | NHPI* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 (total population) | 66.99% | 29.02% | 0.76% | 4.53% | 0.12% |
| 2000 (Hispanic only) | 3.73% | 0.51% | 0.10% | 0.06% | 0.02% |
| 2005 (total population) | 65.29% | 30.16% | 0.76% | 5.30% | 0.13% |
| 2005 (Hispanic only) | 5.01% | 0.61% | 0.12% | 0.09% | 0.03% |
| Growth 2000–05 (total population) | 3.06% | 9.89% | 5.73% | 23.72% | 16.27% |
| Growth 2000–05 (non-Hispanic only) | 0.76% | 9.57% | 2.48% | 23.38% | 13.02% |
| Growth 2000–05 (Hispanic only) | 42.16% | 27.78% | 27.26% | 48.06% | 32.49% |
| * AIAN is American Indian or Alaskan Native; NHPI is Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | |||||
Largest cities[link]
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| Rank | City name | County | Pop. | ||||||
 Baltimore |
1 | Baltimore | independent city | 620,961 |  Rockville |
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| 2 | Frederick | Frederick | 65,239 | ||||||
| 3 | Rockville | Montgomery | 61,209 | ||||||
| 4 | Gaithersburg | Montgomery | 59,933 | ||||||
| 5 | Bowie | Prince George's | 54,727 | ||||||
| 6 | Hagerstown | Washington | 39,662 | ||||||
| 7 | Annapolis | Anne Arundel | 38,394 | ||||||
| 8 | College Park | Prince George's | 30,413 | ||||||
| 9 | Salisbury | Wicomico | 30,343 | ||||||
| 10 | Laurel | Prince George's | 25,115 | ||||||
Religion[link]
Maryland was founded for the purpose of providing religious toleration of England's Roman Catholic minority. Nevertheless, Parliament later reversed that policy and discouraged the practice of Catholicism in Maryland. Due to immigration patterns, Catholics have not been a majority in Maryland since early Colonial times. Nonetheless, Catholicism is the largest single denomination in Maryland. As of the year 2000, the RCMS[57] reported that the second and third largest denominational groups in Maryland are Mainline Protestant, and Evangelical Protestant. The Catholic Church has the highest number of adherents in Maryland (at 952,389), followed by the United Methodist Church with 297,729 members reported. Judaism is the largest non-Christian religion with 241,000 adherents, or 4.3% of the total population.[58] The present religious composition of the state is shown below:[citation needed]
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| Protestant | 56% | Roman Catholic | 23% | Jewish | 4% |
| Baptist | 18% | Other Christian | 3% | Muslim | 1% |
| Methodist | 11% | Other Religions | 1% | ||
| Lutheran | 6% | Non-Religious | 11%[citation needed] | ||
| Other Protestant | 21% | ||||
Despite the Protestant majority, Maryland has been prominent in U.S. Catholic tradition, partially because it was intended by George Calvert as a haven for English Catholics. Baltimore was the seat of the first Catholic bishop in the U.S. (1789), and Emmitsburg was the home and burial place of the first American-born citizen to be canonized, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. Georgetown University, the first Catholic University, was founded in 1789 in what was then part of Maryland.[59] The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Baltimore was the first Roman Catholic cathedral built in the United States, and the Archbishop of Baltimore is, albeit without formal primacy, the United States' quasi-primate, and often a Cardinal.
Economy[link]
See also: Business in Maryland, List of federal installations in Maryland, and List of shopping malls in Maryland
The Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that Maryland's gross state product in 2006 was US$257 billion.[60] According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Maryland households are currently the wealthiest in the country, with a 2009 median household income of $69,272[4] which puts it ahead of New Jersey and Connecticut, which are second and third respectively. Two of Maryland's counties, Howard and Montgomery, are the third and tenth wealthiest counties in the nation respectively. Also, the state's poverty rate of 7.8% is the lowest in the country.[61][62][63] Per capita personal income in 2006 was US$43,500, 5th in the nation.
As of March 2012, the state's unemployment rate was 6.6%.[64]
Maryland's economic activity is strongly concentrated in the tertiary service sector, and this sector, in turn, is strongly influenced by location. One major service activity is transportation, centered on the Port of Baltimore and its related rail and trucking access. The port ranked 17th in the U.S. by tonnage in 2008.[65] Although the port handles a wide variety of products, the most typical imports are raw materials and bulk commodities, such as iron ore, petroleum, sugar, and fertilizers, often distributed to the relatively close manufacturing centers of the inland Midwest via good overland transportation. The port also receives several different brands of imported motor vehicles and is the number two auto port in the U.S.[66]
A second service activity takes advantage of the close location of the center of government in Washington, D.C. and emphasizes technical and administrative tasks for the defense/aerospace industry and bio-research laboratories, as well as staffing of satellite government headquarters in the suburban or exurban Baltimore/Washington area. In addition, many educational and medical research institutions are located in the state. In fact, the various components of The Johns Hopkins University and its medical research facilities are now the largest single employer in the Baltimore area. Altogether, white collar technical and administrative workers comprise 25% of Maryland's labor force, attributable in part to nearby Maryland being a part of the Washington Metro Area where the federal government office employment is relatively high.
Maryland has a large food-production sector. A large component of this is commercial fishing, centered in Chesapeake Bay, but also including activity off the short Atlantic seacoast. The largest catches by species are the blue crab, oysters, striped bass, and menhaden. The Bay also has uncounted millions of overwintering waterfowl in its many wildlife refuges. While not, strictly speaking, a commercial food resource, the waterfowl support a tourism sector of sportsmen.
Maryland has large areas of fertile agricultural land in its coastal and Piedmont zones, though this land use is being encroached upon by urbanization. Agriculture is oriented to dairy farming (especially in foothill and piedmont areas) for nearby large city milksheads plus specialty perishable horticulture crops, such as cucumbers, watermelons, sweet corn, tomatoes, muskmelons, squash, and peas (Source:USDA Crop Profiles). In addition, the southern counties of the western shoreline of Chesapeake Bay are warm enough to support a tobacco cash crop zone, which has existed since early Colonial times but declined greatly after a state government buyout in the 1990s. There is also a large automated chicken-farming sector in the state's southeastern part; Salisbury is home to Perdue Farms. Maryland's food-processing plants are the most significant type of manufacturing by value in the state.
Manufacturing, while large in dollar value, is highly diversified with no sub-sector contributing over 20% of the total. Typical forms of manufacturing include electronics, computer equipment, and chemicals. The once mighty primary metals sub-sector, which at one time included what was then the largest steel factory in the world at Sparrows Point, still exists, but is pressed with foreign competition, bankruptcies, and company mergers. During World War II the Glenn L. Martin Company (now part of Lockheed Martin) airplane factory near Essex, MD employed some 40,000 people.
Mining other than construction materials is virtually limited to coal, which is located in the mountainous western part of the state. The brownstone quarries in the east, which gave Baltimore and Washington much of their characteristic architecture in the mid-19th century, were once a predominant natural resource. Historically, there used to be small gold-mining operations in Maryland, some surprisingly near Washington, but these no longer exist.
Maryland imposes 5 income tax brackets, ranging from 2% to 6.25% of personal income.[67] The city of Baltimore and Maryland's 23 counties levy local "piggyback" income taxes at rates between 1.25% and 3.2% of Maryland taxable income. Local officials set the rates and the revenue is returned to the local governments quarterly. The top income tax bracket of 9.45% is the fifth highest combined state and local income tax rates in the country, behind only New York City's 11.35%, California’s 10.3%, Rhode Island’s 9.9%, and Vermont’s 9.5%.[68] Maryland's state sales tax is 6%. All real property in Maryland is subject to the property tax. Generally, properties that are owned and used by religious, charitable, or educational organizations or property owned by the federal, state or local governments are exempt. Property tax rates vary widely. No restrictions or limitations on property taxes are imposed by the state, meaning cities and counties can set tax rates at the level they deem necessary to fund governmental services. These rates can increase, decrease or remain the same from year to year. If the proposed tax rate increases the total property tax revenues, the governing body must advertise that fact and hold a public hearing on the new tax rate. This is called the Constant Yield Tax Rate process.
Baltimore City is the eighth largest port in the nation, and was at the center of the February 2006 controversy over the Dubai Ports World deal because it was considered to be of such strategic importance. The state as a whole is heavily industrialized, with a booming economy and influential technology centers. Its computer industries are some of the most sophisticated in the United States, and the federal government has invested heavily in the area. Maryland is home to several large military bases and scores of high level government jobs.
Biotechnology[link]
Maryland is a major center for life sciences research and development. With more than 400 biotechnology companies located there, Maryland is the fourth-largest nexus in this field in the United States.[69]
Institutions and government agencies with an interest in research and development located in Maryland include the Johns Hopkins University, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, more than one campus of the University System of Maryland, Goddard Space Flight Center, the United States Census Bureau, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Celera Genomics company, Human Genome Sciences (HGS),the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), and MedImmune - recently purchased by AstraZeneca.
Transportation[link]
The Maryland Department of Transportation, headquartered in the Hanover area of unincorporated Anne Arundel County,[70] oversees transportation in the state.
Roads[link]
See also: List of Interstate Highways in Maryland, List of Maryland state highways, List of minor Maryland state highways, and List of former Maryland state highways
Maryland's Interstate highways include 110 miles (180 km) of I-95, which enters the northeast portion of the state, goes through Baltimore, and becomes part of the eastern section of the Capital Beltway to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. I-68 runs 81 miles (130 km) connecting the western portions of the state to I-70 at the small town of Hancock. I-70 enters from Pennsylvania north of Hancock and continues east for 93 miles (150 km) to Baltimore, connecting Hagerstown and Frederick along the way.
I-83 has 34 miles (55 km) in Maryland and connects Baltimore to southern central Pennsylvania (Harrisburg and York, Pennsylvania). Maryland also has an 11-mile (18 km) portion of I-81 that runs through the state near Hagerstown. I-97, fully contained within Anne Arundel County and the second shortest (17.6 miles) one- or two-digit Interstate highway which connects the Baltimore area to the Annapolis area. Hawaii has one that is shorter.
There are also several auxiliary Interstate highways in Maryland. Among them are two beltways encircling the major cities of the region: I-695, the McKeldin (Baltimore) Beltway, which encircles Baltimore; and a portion of I-495, the Capital Beltway, which encircles Washington, D.C. I-270, which connects the Frederick area with Northern Virginia and the District of Columbia through major suburbs to the northwest of Washington, is a major commuter route and is as wide as fourteen lanes at points. Both I-270 and the Capital Beltway are currently extremely congested; however, the ICC or Intercounty Connector (MD 200) is hoped to alleviate some of the congestion over time. Construction of the ICC was a major part of the campaign platform of former Governor Robert Ehrlich, who was in office from 2003 until 2007, and of Governor Martin O'Malley, who succeeded him. I-595, which is concurrent with US 50 and US 301, is the longest unsigned interstate in the country and connects Prince George's County and Washington D.C. with Annapolis and the Eastern Shore via the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
Maryland also has a state highway system that contains routes numbered from 2 through 999, however most of the higher-numbered routes are either not signed or are relatively short. Major state highways include Routes 2 (Governor Ritchie Highway/Solomons Island Road/Southern Maryland Blvd.), 4 (Pennsylvania Avenue/Southern Maryland Blvd./Patuxent Beach Road/St. Andrew's Church Road), 5 (Branch Avenue/Leonardtown Road/Point Lookout Road), 32, 45 (York Road), 97 (Georgia Avenue), 100 (Paul T. Pitcher Memorial Highway), 210 (Indian Head Highway), 235 (Three Notch Road), 295 (Baltimore-Washington Parkway), 355 (Wisconsin Avenue/Rockville Pike/Frederick Road), 404 (Queen Anne Highway/ Shore Highway), and 650 (New Hampshire Avenue).
Airports[link]
See also: Aviation in Maryland and List of airports in Maryland
Maryland's largest airport is Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (formerly known as Friendship Airport and recently renamed for Baltimore-born former and first African-American Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall). The only other airports with commercial service are at Hagerstown and Salisbury. The Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. are also serviced by the other two airports in the region, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Dulles International Airport, both in Northern Virginia. The College Park Airport is the nation's oldest, founded in 1909, and is still utilized. Wilbur Wright trained military aviators at this location.[71][72]
Rail[link]
See also: List of Maryland railroads
Amtrak trains, including the high speed Acela Express serve Baltimore's Penn Station, BWI Airport, New Carrollton, and Aberdeen along the Washington D.C. to Boston Northeast Corridor. In addition, train service is provided to Rockville and Cumberland by Amtrak's Washington, D.C., to Chicago Capitol Limited. MARC commuter trains, operated by the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA), connect nearby Washington, D.C., Frederick, Baltimore, and intermediate towns. The WMATA Washington Metro rapid transit/subway and bus system serves Montgomery and Prince George's counties, as well as BWI Airport. The MTA's Light Rail and Metro Subway systems serve Baltimore City and adjacent suburbs.
Freight rail transport is handled principally by two Class I railroads, as well as several smaller regional and local carriers. CSX Transportation has more extensive trackage throughout the state, with 560 miles (900 km),[73] followed by Norfolk Southern Railway. Major rail yards are located in Baltimore and Cumberland,[73] with an intermodal terminal (rail, truck and marine) in Baltimore.[74]
Shipping canals[link]
The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal is a 14 miles (23 km) canal on the Eastern Shore that connects the waters of the Delaware River with those of the Chesapeake Bay, and in particular with the Port of Baltimore, carrying 40 percent of the port's ship traffic.[75]
Law and government[link]
Main article: Government of Maryland
See also: List of Governors of Maryland, Maryland Army National Guard, and Maryland Air National Guard
The government of Maryland is conducted according to the state constitution. The government of Maryland, like the other 49 state governments, has exclusive authority over matters that lie entirely within the state's borders, except as limited by the Constitution of the United States.
Power in Maryland is divided among three branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial. The Maryland General Assembly is composed of the Maryland House of Delegates and the Maryland Senate. Maryland's governor is unique in the United States as the office is vested with significant authority in budgeting. The legislature may not increase the governor's proposed budget expenditures. Unlike most other states, significant autonomy is granted to many of Maryland's counties.
Most of the business of government is conducted in Annapolis, the state capital. Virtually all state and county elections are held in even-numbered years not divisible by four, in which the President of the United States is not elected – this, as in other states, is intended to divide state and federal politics.
The judicial branch of state government consists of one united District Court of Maryland that sits in every county and Baltimore City, as well as 24 Circuit Courts sitting in each County and Baltimore City, the latter being courts of general jurisdiction for all civil disputes over $30,000.00, all equitable jurisdiction and major criminal proceedings. The intermediate appellate court is known as the "Court of Special Appeals" and the state supreme court is the "Court of Appeals". The appearance of the judges of the Maryland Court of Appeals is unique in that Maryland is the only state whose judges wear red robes.[76]
Elections[link]
Further information: Political party strength in Maryland
Since before the Civil War, Maryland's elections have been largely controlled by the Democrats, even as the party's platform has changed considerably in that time. State elections are dominated by Baltimore and the populous suburban counties bordering Washington, D.C.: Montgomery and Prince George's. Forty-three percent of the state's population resides in these three jurisdictions, each of which contain large, traditionally Democratic voting bloc(s): African Americans in Baltimore and Prince George's, federal employees in Prince George's and Montgomery, and postgraduates in Montgomery. The remainder of the state, particularly Western Maryland and the Eastern Shore, is more supportive of Republicans.
Maryland has supported the Democratic nominee in each of the last five presidential elections, by an average margin of 15.4%. In 1980, it was one of only six states to vote for Jimmy Carter. Maryland has been among the Democratic nominees' best states. In 1992, Bill Clinton fared better in Maryland than any other state except his home state of Arkansas. In 1996, Maryland was Clinton's sixth best, in 2000 Maryland ranked fourth for Gore and in 2004 John Kerry showed his fifth best performance in Maryland.
Barack Obama won the state's 10 electoral votes in 2008 with 61.9% of the vote to John McCain's 36.5%. Both of Maryland's U.S. Senators and six of its eight Representatives in Congress are Democrats, and Democrats hold supermajorities in the state Senate and House of Delegates. The previous Governor, Robert Ehrlich, was the first Republican to be elected to that office in four decades, and after one term lost his seat to Baltimore Mayor Martin J. O'Malley, a Democrat. Ehrlich ran again for Governor in 2010, losing again to O'Malley.
U.S. Congressman Steny Hoyer (MD-5), a Democrat, was elected as Majority Leader for the 110th Congress of the House of Representatives, and 111th Congress, serving in that post from 2007 to 2011. His district covers parts of Anne Arundel and Prince George's counties, in addition to all of Charles, Calvert and St. Mary's counties in southern Maryland.[77]
The 2006 election brought no significant change in this pattern of Democratic dominance. After Democratic Senator Paul Sarbanes announced that he was retiring, Democratic Congressman Benjamin Cardin defeated Republican Lieutenant Governor Michael S. Steele, with 55% of the vote, against Steele's 44%. The governorship was also a point of interest, as Republican incumbent Robert Ehrlich was defeated by Democratic challenger Martin O'Malley, the Mayor of Baltimore, 53% to 46%.
While Maryland is a Democratic Party stronghold, perhaps its best known political figure is a Republican – former Governor Spiro Agnew, who served as United States Vice President under Richard Nixon. He was Vice President from 1969 to 1973, when he resigned in the aftermath of revelations that he had taken bribes while he was Governor of Maryland. In late 1973, a court found Agnew guilty of violating tax laws.
In 2010 Republicans won control of most counties. The Democratic Party remained in control of eight county governments including Baltimore City.[citation needed]
Education[link]
Primary and secondary education[link]
Public primary and secondary education in Maryland is overseen by the Maryland State Department of Education, which is headquartered in Baltimore.[78] The highest educational official in the state is the State Superintendent of Schools, currently Dr. Nancy Grasmick, who is appointed by the State Board of Education to a four-year term of office. The Maryland General Assembly has given the Superintendent and State Board autonomy to make educationally related decisions, limiting its own influence on the day to day functions of public education. Each county and county-equivalent in Maryland has a local Board of Education charged with running the public schools in that particular jurisdiction.
The budget for education was $5.5 billion in 2009, representing about 40% of the state's general fund.[79]
Maryland has a broad range of private primary and secondary schools. Many of these are affiliated with various religious sects, including parochial schools of the Catholic Church, Quaker schools, Seventh-day Adventist schools, and Jewish schools. In 2003, Maryland law was changed to allow for the creation of publicly funded charter schools, although the charter schools must be approved by their local Board of Education and are not exempt from state laws on education, including collective bargaining laws.
In 2008, the state led the entire country in the percentage of students passing Advanced Placement examinations. 23.4 percent of students earned passing grades on the AP tests given in May 2008. This marks the first year that Maryland earned this honor.[80] Three Maryland high schools (in Montgomery County) were ranked among the top 100 in the country based on these test scores.[81]
Colleges and universities[link]
Maryland has several historic and renowned private colleges and universities, the most prominent of which is Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876 with a grant from Baltimore entrepreneur Johns Hopkins.
The first public university in the state is the University of Maryland, Baltimore, which was founded in 1807 and contains the University of Maryland's only public academic health, human services, and law center. Seven professional and graduate schools train the majority of the state's physicians, nurses, dentists, lawyers, social workers, and pharmacists.[82] The largest undergraduate institution in Maryland is the University of Maryland, College Park which was founded as the Maryland Agricultural College in 1856 and became a public land grant college in 1864. Towson University, founded in 1866, is the state's second largest university. Baltimore is home to the Maryland Institute College of Art. The majority of public universities in the state are affiliated with the University System of Maryland. Two state-funded institutions, Morgan State University and St. Mary's College of Maryland, as well as two federally funded institutions, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the United States Naval Academy, are not affiliated with the University System of Maryland.
St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland and Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, both private institutions, are the two oldest colleges in the state, and are among the oldest in the country. Other private institutions include Mount St. Mary's University, McDaniel College (formerly known as Western Maryland College), Hood College, Stevenson University (formerly known as Villa Julie College), Loyola University Maryland, and Goucher College, among others.
Sports[link]
See also: Sports in Maryland and List of athletes from Maryland
With two major metropolitan areas, Maryland has a number of major and minor professional sports franchises. Two National Football League teams play in Maryland, the Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore City and the Washington Redskins in Landover. The Baltimore Orioles are the state's Major League Baseball franchise, with the Washington Nationals located nearby in Washington, D.C. The National Hockey League's Washington Capitals and the National Basketball Association's Washington Wizards formerly played in Maryland, until the construction of an arena in Downtown D.C. in 1997 (originally known as MCI Center, renamed Verizon Center in 2006). Maryland enjoys considerable historical repute for the talented sports players of its past, including Cal Ripken Jr. and Babe Ruth. In 2012, The Baltimore Sun published a list of Maryland's top ten athletes in the state's history. The list includes Ruth, Ripken, Johnny Unitas, Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson, Ray Lewis, Michael Phelps, Jimmie Foxx, Jim Parker, and Wes Unseld.[83]
Other professional sports franchises in the state include five affiliated minor league baseball teams, one independent league baseball team, the Baltimore Blast indoor soccer team, two indoor football teams, and three low-level outdoor soccer teams. Maryland is also home to one of the three races in horse racing's annual Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes, which is run every spring at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
The official state sport of Maryland, since 1962, is jousting; the official team sport since 2004 is lacrosse.[84] The National Lacrosse Hall of Fame is located on the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore. In 2008, intending to promote physical fitness for all ages, walking became the official state exercise. Maryland is the first state with an official state exercise.[85]
See also[link]
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- Outline of history
- Outline of geography
- Culture of Maryland
- List of Governors of Maryland
- List of National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
- U.S. state
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Further reading[link]
- Brugger, Robert J. (1988). Maryland, A Middle Temperament: 1634-1980. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-5465-2. http://books.google.com/?id=fNspu2FxwUwC&lpg=PP1&dq=Maryland%2C%20A%20Middle%20Temperament&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q.
- Chappelle, Susan Ellery Green; et al. (1986). Maryland: A History of its People. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-3005-2. http://books.google.com/?id=zw87C-gF8GgC&lpg=PP1&dq=Maryland%3A%20A%20History%20of%20its%20People&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q.
- Denton, Lawrence M. (1995). A Southern Star for Maryland. Baltimore: Publishing Concepts. ISBN 0-9635159-3-4.
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