Federals Take a Stand

Historical marker location:

Frederick, Maryland

( Marker is on Urbana Pike (State Highway 355), on the right when traveling south.)

7:00 a.m., July 9, 1864. Monocacy National Battlefield, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

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.