Working Hard To Survive

Historical marker location:

9500 Macarthur Blvd, Carderock, Maryland

( Marker is on Macarthur Boulevard, 0.3 miles south of Clara Barton Parkway, on the left when traveling west.)

CCC Creates Jobs for America's Unemployed. Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park.

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.