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Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland. UMD is the largest university in both the state and the Washington metropolitan area . Its eleven schools and colleges offer over 200 degree-granting programs, including 113 undergraduate majors, 107 master's programs, and 83 doctoral programs .
On March 6, 1856, the forerunner of today's University of Maryland was chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College.Two years later, Charles Benedict Calvert, a slaveowner, descendant of the Barons Baltimore, fervent believer in agricultural education, and a future U.S. Congressman, purchased 420 acres (1.7 km 2) of the Riversdale Plantation in College Park for $21,000.
The Pennsylvania State University was founded in 1855, and in 1863 the school became Pennsylvania's land-grant university under the terms of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts. Temple University in Philadelphia was founded in 1884 by Russell Conwell , originally as a night school for working-class citizens.
St. Mary's City was the largest settlement in Maryland and the seat of colonial government until 1695. Because Anglicanism had become the official religion in Virginia, a band of Puritans in 1649 left for Maryland; they founded Providence (now called Annapolis). [25] In 1650 the Puritans revolted against the proprietary government.
The Maryland Agricultural College Class of 1912 ... Andy Dinniman (b. 1944), M.A. 1969, Pennsylvania State ... zoologist, founded the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory ...
1911 - Pennsylvania Station (Baltimore) built. 1912 Arch Social Club founded. 1912 Democratic National Convention; 1914 Baltimore Museum of Art founded. Baltimore Museum of Art. Hippodrome Theatre built. 1916 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra formed. Baltimore Black Sox baseball team formed. 1917 Fort Holabird established. Lithuanian Hall opens. 1918
The University System of Maryland (USM) is a public university system in the U.S. state of Maryland.The system is composed of the eleven campuses at College Park, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Princess Anne, Towson, Salisbury, Bowie, Frostburg, Hagerstown, Rockville, Cambridge, and Adelphi, along with four regional higher education centers located throughout the state.
William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, grades preK–12, independent Quaker school associated with PYM; oldest Quaker school in the world, founded in 1689. Woolman Semester , Nevada City, California , one-semester program open to grades 11–13, formerly John Woolman School