Mineral County / State of Maryland
Mineral County. Formed from Hampshire in 1866. Named for its great mineral deposits. In Mineral County, Fort Ashby, the only standing unit in the chain of frontier forts which were built in 1755 under Washington’s orders.
State of Maryland. Named for Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles I, who gave a royal charter to Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, in 1632. First settlement at St. Mary’s City in 1634. It was one of the 13 original colonies.
Marker is on Kitzmiller Bridge (Maryland Route 38) (West Virginia Route 42).
Courtesy hmdb.org
