Walter Reed Monument

Historical marker location:

8901 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland

( Marker is on Palmer Road North, 0.2 miles east of Wood Road, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 2013

Healing Plaza. Walter Reed National Military Medical 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.