CSPAN3 Maryland State House August 28, 2017
This particular site. The original statehouse built in the 1690s when the capital moved from st. Mary to a. That building remained the primary statehouse until the 17 the sixth when in 1769 legislation was passed to build this state house, the third on the present site. Construction began in 1772 and completed in 1779. The current statehouse twels the two previous statehouses stand on highest point in the city. Which would have afforded a commanding view of the harbor and theed surrounding hand escape in the 17th and 18th centuries this would have been the tallest building in town. It is still...