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Facts about the city
St. Mary's City, Maryland, is a former colonial town and was Maryland's first colonial settlement and capital. It is now a large, state-run historic area, reconstruction of the original colonial settlement, living history area and museum complex, also known as Historic St. Mary's City.Half of the area is also the campus of the public honors college, St. Mary's College of Maryland.St. Mary's City is the historic site of the founding of the Colony of Maryland (then called the Province of Maryland). The original settlement was also the fourth oldest permanent English settlement in the United States.St. Mary's City is also considered the birthplace of religious freedom in America, with the earliest North American colonial settlement ever established with the specific mandate of being a haven for both Catholic and Protestant Christian faiths.It is also an internationally recognized archeological research area and training center for archaeologists, and is home to the The Historical Archaeology Field School. There have been over 200 archeological digs in St. Mary's city over the last 30 years. Archeological research continues in the city.It is an unincorporated community under state law, and is located in Southern St. Mary's County, Maryland, which in turn is the southernmost tip of the state of Maryland on the Western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. St. Mary's City is bordered by the St. Mary's River, a short, brackish water tidal tributary of the Potomac river, near where it empties into the Chesapeake.
Saint Marys City Obituaries
History
St. Mary's City is the fourth oldest permanent settlement in British North America and is considered the birthplace of religious toleration in America, owing to the Maryland Toleration Act Concerning Religion. Mary's County, Maryland Mary's County, Maryland, is a small unincorporated community near the southernmost end of the state on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Marys River (Maryland) Mary's River, a tributary of the Potomac River. The city was also the first place in America where a woman asked for the right to vote, and a man of African descent voted in the Assembly at one point.
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