Annapolis is Maryland’s capital city on the Chesapeake Bay, with a historic district that includes 18th-century brick houses and the domed 1700’s Maryland State House.

This five-part Georgian mansion was built in the 1760s and then carefully restored by Historic Annapolis beginning in 1965.

In this post I will cover the Mount Vernon neighborhood, the Cylburn Arboretum and the Civic Work’s Clifton Mansion.

The Potomac River town of Williamsport was settled by General Otho Holland Williams following the American Revolution. General George Washington came to the area himself scouting the area as a possible location for out nation’s capital. The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal came to Williamsport in 1834, creating an important commercial route to Washington, D.C. and the Chesapeake Bay.