Maryland Day

Maryland Day
Maryland Day
	St. Clement's Island
Date	March 25
Next time	March 25, 2025
Frequency	annual
Related to	Feast of the Annunciation

Maryland Day is a legal

Mary, and the start of the new year in England's legal calendar (prior to 1752). Maryland Day on 25 March celebrates the 1634 landing at St Clements. Later the colonists and their two ships sailed further back down river to the southeast to settle a capital at St. Mary's City near the point where the Potomac flows into the Chesapeake Bay

.

The holiday began its official observance in 1903, the date chosen by the State's Board of Education to honor Maryland history and to increase the teaching of state and local histories in the public schools. In 1916, the General Assembly (state legislature) authorized "Maryland Day" as a legal holiday (Chapter 633, Acts of 1916).

Ceremonies, activities, historical pageants and other commemorative events are held annually in Historic St. Mary's City in St. Mary's County, the first colonial capital of the province and the site of several reconstructed provincial and colonial structures including the first State House with a tourism/historical agency which runs operations and provides interpretative information. This was where the first sessions of the General Assembly of Maryland were held, over 375 years ago.

An annual ceremony is held at the base of the 1908 statue of

Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.

, 1911–1984) facing St. Paul Street with the ceremony continuing further inside in a ceremonial courtroom.

The annual Maryland Day weekend celebration is held in the Four Rivers Heritage Area of Maryland (from the State Capital in the City of Annapolis to Southern Anne Arundel County). This Maryland Day celebration highlights Maryland's history, heritage, culture and environment at approximately 20 sites with over 40 events during Maryland's Birthday weekend.

The 2020 Maryland Day celebration was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.^[4]

References

^ "2015 Maryland Code :: GENERAL PROVISIONS :: Title 1 - RULES OF INTERPRETATION :: Subtitle 1 - DEFINITIONS :: § 1-111 - Legal holiday". Justia Law. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
ISBN 978-0-86516-279-2
.

^ See Father Blount's diary of the voyage

^ "Maryland Day | Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Maryland". Maryland Day. Four Rivers Heritage Area. Archived from the original on March 25, 2020. Retrieved March 25, 2020.

External links

Official website

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maryland_Day&oldid=1152035236"

[1] "2015 Maryland Code :: GENERAL PROVISIONS :: Title 1 - RULES OF INTERPRETATION :: Subtitle 1 - DEFINITIONS :: § 1-111 - Legal holiday". Justia Law. Retrieved March 25, 2020.

[2] ISBN 978-0-86516-279-2
.

[3] See Father Blount's diary of the voyage

[4] "Maryland Day | Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Maryland". Maryland Day. Four Rivers Heritage Area. Archived from the original on March 25, 2020. Retrieved March 25, 2020.

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