Annapolis, MD news and local guide

In 1694 Royal Governor Francis Nicholson moved the capital of Maryland there and renamed the town Annapolis, after Princess Anne, later Queen Anne. Annapolis was incorporated as a city in 1708. Little more than a village in the 17th century, it grew rapidly in the 18th as a political capital, a port of entry and a major center of the Atlantic slave trade. Jonas Green founded the Maryland Gazette there in 1745, and a theater opened in 1769. The Scottish-born doctor Alexander Hamilton lived there, and his 1744 travel diary has been called the best single portrait of colonial American life. Commerce declined quickly after Baltimore, with its deeper harbor, was made a port of entry in 1780. Oyster packing, boatbuilding and sailmaking became the city's main industries, and recreational boating has since largely replaced the seafood trade. Sources Wikipedia: Annapolis, Maryland