Plaque: The
State House Building Commission, Annex Commenced 1902Memorials in the State House, in chronological order of installation:
Plaque: The
State House Building Commission, Annex Commenced 1902
Bronze Bust: Winfield
Scott Schley by Ernest W. Keyser. State House lobby. Admiral Schley was a hero of the Spanish
American War. The General Assembly appropriated funds for this bust and pedestal
in honor of Admiral Schley in 1902 and it was installed in the State House
in 1904.
Plaque: Original
Senate Chamber of Maryland, December 23, 1915
Plaque: In Honor of Maryland's First Eight Hundred Volunteers
for Service in the United States Navy in 1917.
Plaque: The
American's Creed by William Tyler Page, December 23, 1919.
Plaque: In honor of Maryland's four Signers of the Declaration of Independence,
on the 150th anniversary of that event, July 1926.
Plaque: In honor of Thomas Johnson, Maryland's first elected
governor. Erected by the Maryland Society of the Sons of the American Revolution,
1928.
Plaque: Restoration
of Old State House, 1948
Plaque: In honor of Matthew Henson, explorer who
was the first man to reach the North Pole, on April 6, 1906, during the Artic
expedition of U.S. Navy Commander Robert Edwin Peary. Born in Charles County,
Henson is recognized as a co-discoverer, with Peary, of the North Pole. This
memorial was the first state-sponsored memorial to an African-American in
Maryland, 1961.
Plaque: "Maryland
Remembers" plaque in honor of "her nearly 63,000 native sons who served
in the union forces and the more than 22,000 in those of the confederacy
in the war between the states." Maryland Civil War Centennial Commission,
1964
Plaque: Renovation to Senate Chamber, December
1966.
Display: Moon rock and Maryland flag. Presented
to the people of the state of Maryland by Richard Nixon, President of the
United States. The flag was carried to the moon and back by Apollo 11.
Framed plaque: Crew patch, United States
and Maryland flag from official Flight Kit aboard orbiter Challenger,
STS 51-L, January 28, 1986
Memorials on the State House grounds and on Lawyers' Mall:
Roger
Brooke Taney by William Henry Rinehart. A native of Calvert County, Roger
Brooke Taney served in both the Maryland House of Delegates and the Senate.
He also served the national government as acting U.S. Secretary of War, U.S.
Attorney General, Secretary of the Treasury, and chief justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court. This statue was unveiled on December 11, 1872.
Baron
Johann deKalb by Ephraim Keyser. Major General Baron deKalb was a German
baron who served in the Colonies during the Revolutionary War. He was mortally
wounded at Camden, South Carolina in 1780. In 1817, the Maryland House
of Delegates passed a Resolution (No. 74) to memorialize General deKalb,
but the statute was not erected until 1886.
St. Mary's City Cannon, State House grounds. This
cannon was brought to Maryland from England by the first settlers in 1634
and mounted on the walls of the fort at old St. Mary's. It was recovered
from the St. Mary's River in 1822 and presented to the State in 1840 by Rev.
Joseph Carbery. The tablet was placed by the Peggy Stewart Tea Party Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution of Annapolis, Maryland, on Maryland
Day, March 25, 1908.
USS Maryland Bell, State House grounds. The battleship
USS Maryland was decommissioned in 1947 and its bell was presented to the
state and installed on the State House grounds in 1960. The silver service
from the USS Maryland is on display in the Silver Room of the State House.
Thurgood
Marshall Memorial by Antonio Tobias Mendez. Lawyers' Mall/State House
Square.: Lawyer's Mall/State House Square. Unveiled in 1996, this memorial
honors the great civil rights leader who became the first African-American
to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. The memorial is erected on the site of
the old Court of Appeals building where Marshall argued some of his early
civil rights cases.
Rededication for Dr. Martin Luther King, February 28, 2007. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a commencement address at Morgan State College on June 2, 1958 that had gone unnoticed by scholars for nearly 50 years. His words from that day were recovered from the pages of the Afro and used for a new plaque at the memorial oak tree on the Maryland State House grounds.
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