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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;leeg, post: 4303950, member: 17073&quot;]<b>Historical Reflection: Maryland’s Tercentenary Celebration</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Published on Jun 8, 2015.</p><p><br /></p><p>During the 1930’s, St. Mary’s Junior College housed around 80 students during the academic year, ensuring that it would be a tight-knit albeit sparse community tucked away from the larger urban areas of Maryland. However, there has been the rare instance when St. Mary’s comes to center stage and the world seems to be nowhere else but on the banks of the St. Mary’s River. Such was the case on the weekend of June 14th in 1934 when a reported 100,000 people converged on the ruins of St. Mary’s City to celebrate the tercentenary of Maryland’s founding. Video courtesy of Historic St. Mary’s City. Published on Sep 7, 2015, State of the College Address, Sept. 4, 2015.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>From Maryland State Archives:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The Maryland Tercentenary Commission was appointed by the governor in 1929 (Chapter 470, Acts of 1929) to consider plans for the appropriate observance by the state of the tercentenary of the founding of Maryland. A temporary committee of representative citizens had been appointed in 1927 to formulate plans for the celebration and the organization of a commission which would undertake the activities. Following the submission of its report and recommendations to the General Assembly in 1931, the Maryland Tercentenary Commission was authorized to direct the commemoration (Chapter 487, Acts of 1931). The celebration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of the province of Maryland in 1933-1934 under the direction of the Maryland Tercentenary Commission included the erection of a bronzed tablet at Cowes on the Isle of Wight, England to mark the place from which the Ark and Dove embarked for Maryland in 1633; the erection of a memorial on St. Clement&#039;s Island to mark where the original settlers landed; the procurement of the old state house lot at St. Mary&#039;s City; the erection of a memorial at St. Mary&#039;s City commemorating the 300th anniversary of the founding of Maryland; the establishment of a permanent commission to have custody for the memorial and park at St. Mary&#039;s City and St. Clement&#039;s Island called the Maryland Tercentenary Memorial Commission; and the erection of a memorial hall of records in Annapolis. The Maryland Tercentenary Commission was disbanded in 1935.”<b>4</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>4.</b> <b><i>Maryland Historical Magazine</i>, published under the authority of The Maryland Historical Society. Volume XXVIII, Baltimore, 1933.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1095090[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Photo taken in 1933 showing Simpson Charles Wadham as chairman of the Cowes Urban District council looking at a plaque erected on Cowes Parade commemorating 300 years since the sailing of the Ark &amp; the Dove from Cowes to Maryland in the USA. The lady with him is Miss Magruder a direct descendant of John Biscoe who was an original settler. Photo courtesy of Barry Groves.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1095091[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>1933. <i>Baltimore Sun</i>, Maryland Day. A plaque commemorating the sailing of the Dove and the Ark from Cowes, England, carrying original colonists to what is now the state of Maryland, was unveiled by Lord Fairfax in Cowes on November 30, 1933. Inscription Reads: On the 22nd day of November AD 1633 Leonard Calvert brother of Cecil Calvert, Baron of Baltimore, with his co-adventurers, set sail from this port in the Ark and the Dove to establish in America the Palatinate of Maryland, under a charter granted by the King of England, which conferred upon the people of Maryland all the Rights of Englishmen, to be theirs in perpetuity - Rights which the people of Maryland have ever cherished as their greatest, most valued heritage. Upon the site, granted by the Cowes Urban District Council to the Society of the Ark and the Dove this tablet is erected, November 22, 1933.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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