Ben Cardin - Senator for Maryland
Baltimore/Central Maryland
From the Port of Baltimore and Fort McHenry National Historic Shrine to the U.S. Naval Academy, the City of Annapolis, Aberdeen Proving Ground and the Ft. George G. Meade, Central Maryland is the commercial, historic and cultural center of Maryland. It includes Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, Howard counties and is one of our state’s most prosperous and thriving regions. While tourists flock to the sights at the Inner Harbor, Baltimore City also is known for some of the world’s top-rated medical facilities, including Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Maryland Medical Center. The I-95 corridor, which runs from Cecil to Anne Arundel counties, contains some of our nation’s most important national security facilities and many of the businesses that support that mission.
Regional Press
Baltimore/Central Maryland
- Baltimore is the largest U.S. seaport in the mid-Atlantic.
- Annapolis is home to the U.S. Naval Academy.
- Aberdeen is home to a minor league baseball team the Aberdeen IronBirds, which was founded by former Baltimore Orioles player Cal Ripken, Jr..
- Francis Scott Key penned our National Anthem, The Star Spangled Banner, during the Battle of Baltimore in 1814.
- The NAACP and Johns Hopkins University are headquartered in Baltimore.
- In 2010, Money Magazine ranked Howard County’s Columbia and Ellicott City as the second best place to live in the United States.
- George Washington resigned his commission before the Continental Congress in December of 1783 at The Maryland State House in Annapolis
- After being denied from a nearby restaurant due to his race, Frederick Douglass’s son Charles founded Highland Beach in Anne Arundel County as an African American resort town.
- Every fall, the Maryland Wine Festival is held in Westminster to celebrate Maryland viniculture.
- In the earlier 20th Century, Elkton in Cecil County was known as the “elopement capital of the East Coast” because of its relatively loose marriage requirements.