We Will Never Forget

Historical marker location:

304 West Deer Park Road, Gaithersburg, Maryland

( Memorial can be reached from West Deer Park Road, 0.1 miles north of Brighton Drive, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1988

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.