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We've included here a brief history of
Prince Geoge's County, MD.
A Brief History of Prince George's
County, Maryland
No one is sure when people first set foot
in Prince George's County. Some archaeologists believe the
first Indians came to Southern Maryland 10,000 years ago;
others would say it was long before that. Whatever the case,
this land was occupied for thousands of years before the
first Europeans sailed to these shores. The first recorded
visit to Prince George's County by a European came in the
summer of 1608, when Captain John Smith sailed up the
Potomac River, probably as far as Great Falls. Two groups of
Indians inhabited the county in Smith's time the Piscataways,
whose villages ranged from the Anacostia River southward
into Charles and St. Mary's counties and the warlike
Susquehannocks, who roamed and hunted in the northern part
of the county, constantly pressing the Piscataways for more
and more land.
John Smith's visit in 1608 was an
exploring expedition only no settlement was intended. Over
the next 25 years, English traders paid frequent calls upon
the Indians here, sometimes to trade, sometimes to fight.
But the most significant early contact came in 1634, just
days after the first Maryland colonists landed near the
mouth of the Potomac River. Advised by an English trader to
seek permission from the Piscataways before establishing a
settlement there, Governor Leonard Calvert sailed up the
Potomac to the tribe's principal town, located on Piscataway
Creek in the southern part of Prince George's County.
Governor Calvert established good relations with the
Piscataways, and with their permission he returned downriver
to found St. Mary's City, Maryland's first settlement.
The Maryland colony flourished at St.
Mary's City and enjoyed peaceful relations with the
neighboring Indian tribes. Settlers soon left the confines
of the original settlement. New counties were created, and
within 30 years farms and plantations lined both the
Patuxent and Potomac Rivers well into the land we call
Prince George's County today. The land was not called Prince
George's County then, however. The area along the Patuxent
was part of Calvert County; the area along the Potomac was
part of Charles County. By 1695, sixteen or seventeen
hundred people lived here enough, Governor Francis Nicholson
thought, to deserve the right of self-government. The
General Assembly agreed, and on St. George's Day, April 23,
1696, a new county was established, named for Prince George
of Denmark, husband of the heir to the throne of England,
Princess Anne. Extending from the Charles County line on the
south all the way to the Pennsylvania border, the new county
marked Maryland's western frontier. It remained the frontier
county until 1748, when the westernmost regions were granted
their own government, and Prince George's County's northern
boundary became basically the line it is today.
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