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One of the first Rural Free Delivery (RFD) mail routes in America began in Carroll County on Oct. 6, 1896. Within a few years, RFD covered the country.

first appeared: 12/8/2002

Baltimore’s Edgar Allen Poe House, built around 1830, was saved from demolition by the Poe Society in 1941. Though Poe left the house as a young man, he wrote some early stories and poems there.

first appeared: 12/1/2002

Some of the earliest Presbyterian churches in America were established in Maryland in 1683-1684 by Francis Makemie, the father of American Presbyterianism.

first appeared: 11/24/2002

Maryland’s highest point is 3,360 feet above sea level on Backbone Mountain. The state’s lowest point is an underwater depression in Chesapeake Bay called Bloody Point Hole. It is 174 feet deep.

first appeared: 11/17/2002

The nickname “Old Line State” was bestowed by Gen. George Washington when he acknowledged the importance of Maryland’s troops serving in his army’s “line” during many Revolutionary War battles.

first appeared: 11/10/2002

The first college in America named for George Washington was Washington College in Chestertown (pop. 4,746), founded in 1782 and named with Washington’s consent.

first appeared: 11/3/2002

One of Maryland’s earliest English settlements was a fur trading post set up in 1631 by William Claiborne on Kent Island in upper Chesapeake Bay. Claiborne named the island after his home county in England.

first appeared: 10/27/2002

The 500 acres of Cranesville Sub-Arctic Swamp sprawling across the boundaries of Maryland and West Virginia formed during the last Ice Age. This remnant of boreal forest produces several rare plant species normally found only in arctic regions.

first appeared: 10/20/2002

Among the writers who live or once lived in Maryland: Edgar Allan Poe, H.L. Mencken, Tom Clancy, Martha Grimes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rachel Carson, Upton Sinclair, and Ogden Nash—to name a few.

first appeared: 10/13/2002

Built in 1899 as an oyster boat, the William B. Tennison is today the oldest licensed passenger vessel on Chesapeake Bay.

first appeared: 10/6/2002

The nation’s first bookmobile started in Hagerstown in 1905 when Washington County Free Library, under librarian Mary Lemist Titcomb, began using a horse and wagon to carry books to patrons in towns without libraries.

first appeared: 9/29/2002

Of the Appalachian Trail that stretches 2,160 miles from Georgia to Maine, about 40 miles of it pass through Maryland.

first appeared: 9/22/2002

The oldest professional sports organization in the United States is the Maryland Jockey Club, formed in Annapolis in 1743. The club has run the Preakness race since 1870.

first appeared: 9/15/2002

The Baltimore Colts won Super Bowl V (Colts 16, Cowboys 13) in 1971, the first year the trophy presented to the winning team was called the Vince Lombardi Trophy, after one of football’s most famous coaches. Lombardi died in 1970.

first appeared: 9/8/2002

The U.S. Army’s first Aviation Corps was established at College Park (pop. 24,656) Airport, the oldest continuously operated airport in the country. The most famous instructors at the site were Wilber and Orville Wright.

first appeared: 9/1/2002

Backbone Mountain (3,360 feet), Maryland’s highest point, is on the Eastern continental divide. Close to the West Virginia border, the crest is approached by many hikers from that state.

first appeared: 8/25/2002

When the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis was founded in 1845, it took over a 10-acre U.S. Army base, Fort Severn.

first appeared: 8/18/2002

The Aberdeen Proving Ground on the Chesapeake Bay northeast of Baltimore became an army weapons and munitions testing facility after America entered World War I.

first appeared: 8/11/2002

The Annie Oakley House in Cambridge was built by the famed sharpshooter and Wild West performer in 1913. During the period she lived there (1913-1917), she wrote an autobiography titled Powders I Have Used.

first appeared: 8/4/2002

North America’s smallest swan, the Tundra Swan (about 4 feet long and averaging 20 pounds), migrates from its arctic breeding range to its wintering area along Maryland’s coast, arriving in such areas as Blackwater Refuge in early November.

first appeared: 7/28/2002

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