Maryland is known as "Little America" and "America in Miniature" for its geographical range, from the vast estuary of the Chesapeake Bay to its Atlantic beaches, farm-rich Piedmont Plateau, and rugged Allegheny Mountains. As one of the thirteen original colonies, it is renowned for eighteenth-century architecture highlighting the transfer of the building traditions of its European settlers. The capital, Annapolis, offers some of colonial America's...