Maryland

See List of people from Maryland. See also Memphis Mafia. For a more exhaustive list, see List of cities in Maryland.
. See also:Places in Maryland Ranked by Per Capita Income. Other. Notwithstanding numerical positions, the founding intent of Maryland has made the state prominent in US Catholic tradition. For example, Baltimore was the location of the first Catholic bishop in the USA ( 1789) and Emmitsburg, the home and burial place of the first American-born citizen to be canonized, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. Military.

The three largest Protestant denominations in Maryland are: Baptist (17% of the total state population), Methodist (14%), Lutheran (6%). Sports Figures. The present religious composition of the state is shown in the table below:. Jurists, Politicians and Activists. Therefore, despite the founding intent of the colony, Catholics have never been in a majority in Maryland since early Colonial times. Businesspeople. Nevertheless, the Crown later reversed that policy and discouraged the practice of Catholicism in Maryland. Actors, Directors and Musicians.

Maryland was founded for the purpose of providing religious toleration of England's Catholic minority. Other museums in the area include:. The five largest ancestries in Maryland are: African American (27.9%), German (15.7%), Irish (11.7%), English (9%), American (5.8%). Along with the legendary Stax Sound, the museum also spotlights the music of Muscle Shoals, Motown, Hi and Atlantic. The racial makeup of the state is:. The museum is home to a broad collection of artifacts, photographs, exhibits, commentary, and music. The three counties of Western Maryland (Allegany, Garrett, and Washington) are mountainous and sparsely populated, resembling West Virginia more than they do the rest of Maryland. Also, there is the Stax Museum of American Soul Music.

The Eastern Shore is less populous and more rural, as are the counties of southern Maryland. The Children's Museum of Memphis features many interactive exhibits, including a simulated grocery store, a wood skyscraper maze, and full-scale models of a fire truck and an airplane fuselage. Most of the people live in the central region of Maryland, in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. A smaller art museum, the Dixion Gallery and Gardens focuses on impressionism and has several works by Monet, Degas and Renoir. As of 2003, the state's population was 5,508,909. The Brooks Museum of Art in Overton Park, founded in 1916, serves as the region's major art museum. and Baltimore, and other towns. was assassinated.

MARC trains, operated by the State's Transit Authority, connect nearby Washington, D.C. Memphis is home to the National Civil Rights Museum, located in the former Lorraine Motel, where the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. In addition, train service is provided between Washington, D.C., Rockville, Maryland, and Cumberland, Maryland on the Amtrak Capitol Limited. A month long festival, Memphis in May, is held each year to host the city's largest events like the Beale Street Music Festival, the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest and the Sunset Symphony. Amtrak Trains serve Baltimore along the Northeast Corridor. There are several art galleries in Memphis, including, most prominently, the Dixon Gallery. are also serviced by the other two airports in the region, Reagan National and Dulles International Airports, both in Virginia. Opera Memphis, the region's opera company, performs at the Clark Opera Memphis Center in East Memphis.

The Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. Ballet Memphis, which is the region's only major ballet company, performs at The Orpheum Theatre. Maryland's main airport is Baltimore-Washington International Airport (formerly known as Friendship Airport and recently renamed for former Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall). The Memphis area is home to many of West Tennessee's larger arts and culutral organizations, such as the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, which performs at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts in Downtown Memphis. I-695 is the Baltimore beltway. Carnival salutes various aspects of Memphis and its industries, and is reigned over by the current year's secretly selected King & Queen of Carnival. I-68 connects the western portions of the state to Frederick, and I-70 connects Frederick with Baltimore. Carnival Memphis (formerly known as the Memphis Cotton Carnival), is a series of parties and festivities staged every year by the Carnival Memphis Association and its member krewes (similar to that of Mardi Gras) during the early summer.

Maryland's major Interstate Highways include I-95, which enters the northeast portion of the state, goes through Baltimore, and becomes the Capital Beltway to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. Jude Classic, a PGA Tour golf tournament. Historically, there used to be small gold mining operations in Maryland, some surprisingly near Washington, but these no longer exist. Also part of Memphis in May is the FedEx St. Mining other than construction materials is virtually limited to coal, located in the mountainous western part of the state. In construction mention should be made of the brownstone quarries in the east, which gave Baltimore and Washington much of their characteristic architecture in the mid-1800's. Each year, the city honors a foreign country, and each weekend hosts a special event, including the World Championship Barbeque Cooking Contest and the Beale Street Music Festival. 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. The Mid-South Fair comes to the city every fall, and every May there is the Memphis in May.

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. There is Libertyland Amusement Park and the adjacent Liberty Bowl and Memphis Children's Museum, Mud Island, Detour Memphis - an art and performing space, Lichterman Nature Center, the Pink Palace Museum, The Pyramid, The Memphis Zoo, the Memphis Queen riverboat. The third component of the food producing sector are food processing plants, which are the most significant type of manufacturing by value in the state. King used to play his guitar, and occasionally still appears at a club bearing his name and partly owned by him. There is also a large chicken-farming sector in the state. Blues fans can head down to Beale Street, where a young B.B. In addition, the southern counties of the western shoreline of Chesapeake Bay support a tobacco cash crop zone, which has been in existence since early Colonial times. Other famous musicians who got their start at Sun include Johnny Cash, Rufus Thomas, Charlie Rich, Howlin' Wolf, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Agriculture is oriented to dairying 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). Rock and roll is located in the city also. Maryland has a large amount of fertile agricultural land in its coastal and Piedmont zones, although this land use is being encroached upon by urbanization. Sun studios was where Elvis first recorded "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin". While not, strictly speaking, a commercial food resource, the waterfowl support a tourism sector of sportsmen. Tourists come from all over the world to see Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley. The Bay also has uncounted millions of overwintering waterfowl in its many wildlife refuges. Out of the total population, 30.1% of those under the age of 18 and 15.4% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

The largest catches by species are the blue crab, oysters, striped bass, and menhaden. 20.6% of the population and 17.2% of families are below the poverty line. One component is commercial fishing, centered in Chesapeake Bay, but also including activity off the short Atlantic seacoast. The per capita income for the city is $17,838. Maryland has a large food producing sector. Males have a median income of $31,236 versus $25,183 for females. A list of government agencies located in Maryland is summarized below:. The median income for a household in the city is $32,285, and the median income for a family is $37,767.

Altogether, white collar technical and administrative workers comprise 25% of Maryland's labor force, one of the highest state percentages in the country. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 84.9 males. In fact, the various components of Johns Hopkins University and its medical research facilities are now the largest single employer in the Baltimore area. For every 100 females there are 89.8 males. In addition to these are many educational and medical research institutions. The median age is 32 years. 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 the city the population is spread out with 27.9% under the age of 18, 10.8% from 18 to 24, 30.7% from 25 to 44, 19.7% from 45 to 64, and 10.9% who are 65 years of age or older.

A second service activity takes advantage of the close location of the center of government in Washington, D.C. The average household size is 2.52 and the average family size is 3.18. 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. 30.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The port ranked 10th in the USA by tonnage in 2002 (Source: US Corps of Engineers, "Waterborn Commerce Statistics"). There are 250,721 households out of which 31.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 34.1% are married couples living together, 23.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 36.8% are non-families. One major service activity is transportation, centered around the Port of Baltimore and its related rail and trucking access. 2.97% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Maryland's economic activity is strongly concentrated in the tertiary service sector, and this sector, in turn, is strongly influenced by location. The racial makeup of the city is 34.41% White, 61.41% African American, 0.19% Native American, 1.46% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 1.45% from other races, and 1.04% from two or more races. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (http://www.bea.gov/) estimates that Maryland's total state product in 2003 was $212 billion. Per capita personal income in 2003 was $37,446, 5^th in the nation. There are 271,552 housing units at an average density of 375.4/km² (972.2/mi²). Growing climate varies from USDA Zone 8 on the Eastern Shore and in the cities of Baltimore and Washington DC to Zones 7 and 6 is the Piedmont, to Zone 5 in the mountainous west. The population density is 898.6/km² (2,327.4/mi²). Extreme western Maryland has a mountain climate with mild summers and cold winters. As of the census² of 2000, there are 650,100 people, 250,721 households, and 158,455 families residing in the city.

Beyond the plain rise the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, and the Piedmont region has warm summers and colder winters, where snow often falls. Slightly over 80% of office space in the city is occupied. Mary's City) are a part of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, which has a humid subtropical climate of hot summers and mild winters. Memphis as a whole contains about twenty million square feet (2,000,000 m²) of office space, with the downtown area containing only around four million square feet (400,000 m²). The Eastern Shore region, as well as a small part of the western shore (including Baltimore, Annapolis, and St. Memphis' Division of Light, Gas and Water ("MLGW") is one of the largest municipal utitilites in the United States. Climate varies greatly across the state, depending on factors like elevation, rainfall, and proximity to water. Because of its status as the primary hub for FedEx, Memphis International Airport is currently the world's busiest cargo airport in terms of tonnage.

One of the most noted features of Delmarva is Maryland's Assateague Island, on the Atlantic, with its herd of wild ponies accustomed to the seashore. It is also the headquarters of FedEx shipping. The Delmarva Peninsula is a geographic term for the Eastern Shore counties of Maryland, the state of Delaware, and two counties of Virginia, which all together form a long extension down the Atlantic seaboard. Memphis is a center of manufacture of textiles, heating equipment, pianos, and automobile and truck parts. This geographical curiosity, the " Maryland wasp-waist" is located near the small town of Hancock. Public transportation in the Memphis area is provided by the Memphis Area Transit Authority (http://www.matatransit.com), which provides the area with buses and a downtown trolley system that is also in the process of expanding into a regional system. Also in Western Maryland, about two-thirds of the way across the state line, is a point at which the state of Maryland is only two miles wide. The future interstates of I-22 and I-69 are also planned to converge into the Memphis area.

The highest point in Maryland is Backbone Mountain, which is the southwest corner of Garrett County, right near the border with West Virginia near the headwaters of the North Branch of the Potomac. The interstates of I-40 and I-55 (along with rail lines) cross the Mississippi at Memphis into the state of Arkansas. A portion of extreme western Maryland in Garrett County is drained by the Youghiogheny River as part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. Interstate highways I-40, its spur highway I-240 and I-55 are the main freeways in the Memphis area. The Chesapeake Bay nearly bisects the state, and the counties east of the Bay are known collectively as the Eastern Shore. The Memphis metopolitan area encompasses the counties of Fayette, Tipton, and Shelby in Tennessee, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tunica in Mississippi, and Crittenden in Arkansas. It shares a border near the center of the state along the Potomac with Washington, DC. Census.

Maryland is bounded on the north by Pennsylvania, on the west by West Virginia, on the east by Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean, and on the south, across the Potomac River, by Virginia. The Memphis metropolitan area has a populuation of 1,195,977, according to the 2000 U.S. See: List of Maryland counties, List of Maryland rivers. Memphis is the primary city of a metropolitan region including parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. 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. Major Memphis parks include Tom Lee Park, Audubon Park, Overton Park and the Memphis Botanic Garden. Most of the business of government is done in Annapolis, the State capital. The total area is 5.24% water.

Unlike most other states, significant autonomy is granted to many of Maryland's counties. 723.4 km² (279.3 mi²) of it is land and 40.0 km² (15.4 mi²) of it is water. Power in Maryland is divided among three branches of government, executive, legislative, and judicial. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 763.4 km² (294.8 mi²). Maryland is a republic; the United States guarantees her "republican form of government" [|USC Article IV, section 4 (http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articleiv.html#section4)] although there is considerable disagreement about the meaning of that phrase. Memphis is located at 35°7'3" North, 89°58'16" West (35.117365, -89.971068)¹. The United States is a federation; consequently, 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. See also: List of mayors of Memphis.

The Government of Maryland is conducted according to the state constitution. There has been in recent years the idea thrown around of the potential of the merger of county government of Shelby County and City of Memphis into a metropolitan government similar to that in Nashville. Main article: Government of Maryland. Herenton served for 12 years as the superintendent of Memphis City Schools. The right to vote was not, however, extended to non-white males until 1867. Prior to his election, Dr. Article 24 of that document outlawed the practice of slavery. He was elected for the first time in 1991, when he became Memphis' first black mayor.

A constitutional convention was held during 1864 that culminated in the passage of a new state constitution on November 1 of that year. Herenton is currently serving his fourth consecutive term as Mayor. Because of this it was not included under the Emancipation Proclamation. Dr. Despite popular support for the cause of the Confederate States of America, Maryland did not secede during the United States Civil War, in part due to precautions taken by the government in Washington, D.C. Herenton. It was during this bombardment that the Star Spangled Banner was writen by Francis Scott Key. W.

During the War of 1812 the British military attempted to capture the port of Baltimore which was protected by Fort McHenry. W. In 1708 the seat of government was moved to Providence, renamed Annapolis in honor of Queen Anne. The current mayor of Memphis is Dr. St Mary's City is now an archaelogical site, with a small tourist center. This plan provides for nine districts, seven with one representative each and two districts with three representatives each. During the persecution of Maryland Catholics by the Puritan revolutionary government, all of the original Catholic churches of southern Maryland were burned down. In 1995, the council adopted a new district plan which changed council positions to all districts.

This lasted until 1658 when the Calvert family regained control and re-enacted the Toleration Act. The new city charter provided for the election of a mayor and thirteen council members, six elected at large from throughout the city and seven elected from geographic districts. In 1650 the Puritans revolted against the proprietary government and set up a new government that outlawed both Catholicism and Anglicanism. Since 1966, Memphis has been governed by the "weak mayor" form of mayor-council government. After Virginia made the practice of Anglicanism mandatory, a large number of Puritans migrated from Virginia to Maryland, and were given land for a settlement called Providence (now called Annapolis). "Boss" Crump. Mary's City was the largest site of the original Maryland colony, and was the seat of the colonial government until 1708. H.

St. From the 1910s to the 1950s, Memphis was a hotbed of machine politics under the direction of E. The Calvert family, which controlled Maryland, and the Penn family, which controlled Pennsylvania, engaged two surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, to survey what became known as the Mason-Dixon line which would form the boundary between their two colonies. In 1897, Memphis' pyramid-shaped pavilion was a conspicuous part of the Tennessee Centennial exposition. This was found to be a problem, because the northern boundary would put Philadelphia, the major city in Pennsylvania, within Maryland. A yellow fever epidemic in 1870 greatly reduced the population for many years thereafter. Originally, based on an incorrect map, the royal charter granted Maryland the Potomac River and territory northward to the fortieth parallel. At the conclusion of the Battle of Memphis on June 6, 1862 during the American Civil War, Union forces captured Memphis from Confederate control.

The Maryland Toleration Act (1649) was one of the first laws that explicitly tolerated varieties of religion (as long as it was Christian), and is sometimes seen as a precursor to the First Amendment. The city was founded in 1819 and incorporated as a city in 1826. Maryland was one of the key destinations of tens of thousands of British convicts, which carried on until independence. The French built Fort Prudhomme in the vicinity. The English colony of Maryland was founded by Lord Baltimore who on March 25, 1634 led the first settlers into this area which would soon become one of the few dominantly Catholic regions among the English colonies in America. The Spanish explorer, Hernando de Soto, is believed to have visited what is now the Memphis area. The new colony was named in honour of Henrietta Maria, Queen Consort of Charles I. Memphis was settled by the Chickasaw tribe.

George Calvert died in April 1632, but a charter for "Maryland Colony" (in Latin, "Terra Maria") was granted to his son, Cęcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, on June 20, 1632.
. George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore applied to Charles I for a new royal charter for what was to become the Province of Maryland. Memphis is on the Lower Chickasaw Bluff above the Mississippi River, at the mouth of the Wolf River. Main article: History of Maryland. King. See: Annapolis Convention.. B.

Its Associated Press abbreviation is Md. Maryland was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. Memphis was home to Elvis Presley and is home to B. postal abbreviation is MD. The city is particularly known for blues music and barbecue. Its U.S. (This makes Memphis the largest city but second largest metropolitan area in Tennessee, surpassed by Metropolitan Nashville). Maryland is a state of the United States, one of the South Atlantic States (although often considered part of the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic States). The greater Memphis metropolitan area had a population of 1,195,977.

See List of counties in Maryland. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 650,100 within the city limits, making it the largest city in the state of Tennessee, United States. Towson – county seat of suburban Baltimore County. Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, of which it is the county seat. Salisbury – largest city and business center of Delmarva pennisula. 35°7'3" N
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Ocean City – very popular beach resort on Atlantic coastline.
650,100. Laurel – large suburban community directly between Baltimore and Washington on Interstate 95.
 - Total (2000). Hagerstown – Largest community in 3 county Western Maryland region, has decaying industrial base.
. Frederick – Western gateway to Appalachian Mountains, suburban center. Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin (Poet).

Columbia – Large unincorporated town managed by the Columbia Association. William Eggleston (Author). suburb, home to the University of Maryland, College Park. Shelby Foote (Author). College Park – D.C. Richard Halliburton (explorer and author). Baltimore – Most populous city; commercial and cultural hub. Ric Flair (professional wrestling) was born in Memphis, but was adopted in infancy by a couple in the Twin Cities and grew up there.

Annapolis – state capital, home of United States Naval Academy. Jerry Lawler (professional wrestling)