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Maryland Travel

Small though it is, Maryland has such a dazzling variety of natural and man-made features — remote mountains, crowded urban areas, fertile farmlands, scenic shorelines, modern industrial centers, old tobacco plantations — that the state has been called an America in miniature. It seems fitting, then, that America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” was written in Maryland, and that its capital, Washington, D.C., was built on land donated by the state.

Presidential Pet Museum, Maryland

Did you know President Howard Taft had a cow that grazed on the White House lawn? That John Adams raised silkworms? Or that William McKinley raised roosters and Herbert Hoover, an opossum?

Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland

When I visited Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland, it was hard to imagine that the bloodiest day of the Civil War occurred on these lovely rolling green fields.

But battle scars still mar the landscape where more than 23,000 soldiers died on September 17, 1862. The bloody conflict marked the end of General Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North and prompted President Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

Lawyers' Winterbrook Farm, Maryland

When we spotted a huge orange contraption outside a cornfield near Thurmont in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, my husband, Doug, and I detoured to investigate.