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| Tom and Rob behind the state house |
A CAPITAL FOR 61 YEARS: St. Mary's City became the capital of the new Maryland colony and remained so for sixty one years until 1694. The first Maryland assembly met there in 1635 or 1635. Maryland governor Sir Francis Nicholson relocated the capital to Annapolis (then called "Anne Arundel Town") in 1695.
1676: ORIGINAL BRICK MARYLAND STATEHOUSE CONSTRUCTED
In 1676, the original Maryland Statehouse, the home of the
Maryland colonial assembly, was finished. The reconstructed Maryland Statehouse
stands on this site today
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| A reconstruction of the 1st State House |
A TOWN ABANDONED: Once the State House was moved to Annapolis in 1695 and the seat of government was gone, the town lost its reason to exist. Remaining inhabitants were mostly farmers. The former town center was converted to agricultural land and archaeological remains from the colonial town were undisturbed in the ground.NEXT: The City during the Civil War and Making an Historic Landmark