The flag's older history is tied to George Calvert, an English politician and colonizer who more or less founded the Maryland colony, although he died just weeks before the charter for the state ...

"Throughout the colonial period, only the yellow-and-black Calvert family colors are mentioned in descriptions of the Maryland flag. After independence, the use of the Calvert family colors was ...

Could Maryland’s popular state flag become the next target of whitewashing symbols of the Confederacy from our country’s history? No one has suggested such a change yet, but it came up … ...

Flag Buffs Salute District, Maryland. Online Survey Puts Va.'s Banner Among The Unimaginative. By Andrew DeMillo. June 28, 2001 at 8:00 p.m. EDT.

After 300 years, Maryland experts find the historic site of St. Mary’s fort. Archaeologists have located the lost palisade that guarded the state’s first European settlement in 1634.

Buried underground in the middle of an open field, roughly a half-mile inland from St. Mary’s River, archaeologists have discovered the remains of Maryland’s earliest Colonial site, a 387-year ...