Springing Over the Monocacy / The Enduring Aqueduct

Historical marker location:

21000 Mouth of Monocacy Road, Dickerson, Maryland

( Marker is on Mouth of Monocacy Road, 1.3 miles west of Dickerson Road (Maryland Route 28), on the right when traveling west.)

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. 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.