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State Of Maryland Origin: It Was Literally Mary's Land

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Charles I of England had a wife named Henrietta Maria who was from France. 

It was decided that this new colony in the Americas should be named after Henrietta so in 1632 it took its name “Terra Maria”- Mary’s Land.


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