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National Geographic : 1941 Apr
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Maryland Presents- Pacific, the China and Philippine Clippers built by Glenn Martin have tallied up more than three million miles of travel (pp.420,422). Tobacco, which first gave stimulus to colo nial settlement, still is grown, but on rich roll ing hills and the East ern Shore plains Mary land farmers have developed a highly diversified agricultural and livestock enter prise. Dairying alone produces an income of $21,000,000 annually. One should begin a tour of Maryland at old St. Marys City down on the ragged fringe of land between the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay (page 406). Here it was that Leonard Calvert landed with his little band of colonists from the tiny ships, the Ark and Dove, on March 27, 1634, to take up a land grant that had been secured by Cecil Cal vert, second Lord Bal timore. Though it served as capital until 1694,there is little to St. Marys to day, save memories. A slender monument Photograph by W. Robert Moore A Merry "Miller's Daughter" and Her Friend The girls are sitting on the bridge rail spanning the millrace which diverts water from Little Gunpowder Falls to furnish power for Jerusalem Mill, near Baltimore. The mill was built in 1772 and still is in use, some of the grain being ground between the old stones. marks the historic site of the mulberry tree under which Governor Calvert made his treaty with the Yaocomico Indians. Amid tombstones in the churchyard you can pick out markers which show the location of the first Statehouse. Hard by stands a copy of the building, erected to commemorate the celebration of Maryland's tercentenary. A Symbol of Tolerance The attractive St. Mary's Female Seminary is a symbol of the spirit of religious tolerance upon which Maryland was founded, for its charter provides that the board of trustees must represent different denominations, as also must its faculty. Motorists, hurrying to Chesapeake summer resorts or speeding along the north-south high way that links Maryland with Virginia by the brand-new two-mile-long toll bridge spanning the Potomac River at Morgantown, see few of the fine old manorial estates in southern Maryland. Probe the byroads on the fingers of land that point into the Potomac, Patuxent, or Chesa peake Bay, however, and you discover unsus pected numbers of these time-caressed homes. Some are noted for their architecture, their wide brick chimneys, wealth of hand-carved interior decoration, stairways, mantels, or doors; others for their gardens or historical associations. 403
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