Wyman Quadrangle

Historical marker location:

Johns Hopkins Homewood, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from North Charles Street (Maryland Route 139) just north of East 32nd Street, on the left when traveling north.)

Wm Wyman. 1825 - 1903.

Maryland was a border state during the Civil War: During the Civil War, Maryland was a border state that remained in the Union but had many sympathizers with the Confederacy. The state was strategically important because it was located between Washington D.C. and the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.