Henry Highland Garnett School

Historical marker location:

1315 Division Street, Upton, Maryland

( Marker is on Division Street.)

Thurgood Marshall Elementary School PS 103. Upton's Henry Highland Garnett Community Center.

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.