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1895 - Maryland
Maryland, mā're-land (named in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria, consort of Charles I. of Great Britain), one of the Middle Atlantic states of the American Union, and one of the original thirteen United States, is bounded N. by Pennsylvania, E. by Delaware and the Atlantic, W. by West Virginia, and S. and S.W. by Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, and from the two former it is for the most part divided by the river Potomac. It is of very irregular outline, and by the river Susquehanna and Chesapeake Bay it is divided into two portions,—the Eastern and the Western Shore, the latter em bracing about two-thirds of the area. There are also small islands in the bay and off the Atlantic coast, nearly all in close proximity to the Eastern Shore. Area, 12,210 square miles; land area, 9860 square miles, or 6,310,400 acres, of which rather more than half is improved land. The N. limit is "Mason & Dixon's line," 39° 44' N. lat...
The population in 1660 was 12,000; in 1671, 20,000; in 1753, 154,188; in 1790,319,728; in 1800,341,548; in 1810, 380,546; in 1820, 407,350; in 1830, 447,040; in 1840, 470,019; in 1850, 583,034; in 1860, 687,049, of whom, 515,918 were white, 83,941 free colored, and 87,189 slaves; in 1870, 780,894; in 1880, 934,943; in 1890, 1,042,390.
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
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