Annapolis is the capital of Maryland and the county seat of Anne Arundel County. It is located on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River. The city served as the seat of the Confederation Congress and temporary national capital of the United States in 1783–1784. It was named after Princess Anne of Denmark and Norway, soon to be the Queen Anne of Great Britain.
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Annapolis is the capital of Maryland and the county seat of Anne Arundel County. It is located on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River. The city served as the seat of the Confederation Congress and temporary national capital of the United States in 1783–1784. The U.S. Naval Academy, established 1845, is adjacent to the city limits. Annapolis is home to St. John’s College, founded 1696; it was the site of the 1786 Annapolis Convention, which issued a call to the states to send delegates for the Constitutional Convention to be held the following year in Philadelphia. Dr. Alexander Hamilton, a Scottish writer who lived in Annapolis, wrote in his 1744 Gentleman’s Progress: The best men of rural and urban life, of the wide range of society and scenery in colonial America. He called Annapolis ‘the best town in the whole of colonial America’ and described it as ‘the most beautiful city in the world’ Annapolis was named after Princess Anne of Denmark and Norway, soon to be the Queen Anne of Great Britain. Its population was measured at 38,394 by the 2010 census, and it is part of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. It was incorporated as a city in 1708 and became the state capitol in 1760. It became a port of entry in 1780, but declined rapidly after Baltimore, with its deeper harbor, was made aport of entry. It grew rapidly for most of the 18th century until the American Revolutionary War as a political and administrative capital, a port- entry, and a major center of the Atlantic slave trade.
In 1783, General George Washington resigned his commission as commander of the Continental Army. The Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris of 1783. A month later, the Congress ratification, with Great Britain recognizing the independence of theUnited States, took place in the Maryland State House, where General Washington was present. In 1694, soon after the overthrow of the Catholic government of second Royal Governor Thomas Lawrence, then third Royal Governor Francis Nicholson, moved the Capital of the Province of Maryland, to Anne ARundel’s Towne and renamed the town Annapolis. The Maryland Gazette, which became an important weekly journal, was founded there by Jonas Green in 1745; in 1769 a theatre was opened in the city. The state house house was the state house from November 26, 1783 to June 3, 1784, when it was converted into the state capital and named the Annapolis State House. The Annapolis Peace Conference, held in 2007, was held in the same place and was attended by more than 2,000 people. The town was named for Princess Anne, who was soon to become the Queen of Britain. It has a population of about 38,000; it is located 25 miles south of Baltimore and about 30 miles east of Washington, D. C. in the Baltimore area.
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