Lion

Historical marker location:

10 Art Museum Dr, Johns Hopkins Homewood, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Art Museum Drive just north of Wyman Park Drive, on the right when traveling south.)

c. 1929, Limestone. Charles Klutch, American, 1871-1951, after Adolph A. Weinman, American, 1870-1952.

Maryland was originally intended to be called "Crescentia": Lord Baltimore's original plan was to name the colony after the Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of King Charles I. However, the name was already taken, so he proposed the name "Crescentia" instead. The name was eventually changed to "Maryland" in honor of Henrietta Maria.