Maryland

The Old Line State

Maryland offers an array of beautiful places to call home. It is the state to find majestic Mountains, the Chesapeake Bay and wonderful beaches all a short distance from Washington, D.C. Maryland is ranked among the top states in the percentage of professional and technical workers and home to skilled manufacturing laborers and experienced workers in almost every type of industrial job. Maryland has top-notch public schools is and home to 61 accredited institutions of higher learning world-renowned Johns Hopkins University.

In the 1930s Maryland was a major center of metal refining. The city remains an important manufacturer of automobiles and parts, steel and instruments. Manufacturing is led by the printing and publishing industry, the food industry, the machinery industry, and the chemical industry. About one-third of all manufacturing activity (by value) takes place in the city of Baltimore. Maryland is the headquarters for six Fortune 500 companies: Lockheed Martin, Marriott International and Black and Decker to name a few.

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Quick Facts

Population: 5,615,727 as of 2006
Size: 9,774 sq mi.
Per Capita Personal Income: $46,021 as of 2007
Capital: Annapolis

Professional Sports Teams

Football: Baltimore Ravens

Baseball: Baltimore Orioles

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That according to some historians, Gen. George Washington bestowed the name �Old Line State� and thereby associated Maryland with its regular line troops, the Maryland Line, who served courageously in many Revolutionary War battles?

That the following folks call Maryland home: John Wilks Booth, Billie Halliday, Francais Scott Key, Babe Ruth, Harriett Tubman and Frank Zappa.

That the United States Naval Academy was founded on October 10, 1845 at Annapolis?

That the first dental school in the United States opened at the University of Maryland?

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