Historical Marker
Kinter-Metz House
Historical marker location:
111 George Street, Chesapeake City, Maryland
( Marker is on George Street.)
Marker installed: 2009
1854.
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.