Historical Marker
Whites Ferry
Historical marker location:
24801 Whites Ferry Road, Dickerson, Maryland
( Marker can be reached from Whites Ferry Road, 0.1 miles south of River Road, on the right when traveling west.)
Invasion or Liberation?. Antietam Campaign 1862.
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.