Southern Maryland Tourism
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St. Clement's Island Attractions - Coltons Point, Maryland
Things to do on St. Clement's Island in Coltons Point, Maryland. Located in Coltons Point, Maryland, the St. Clement's Island State Park has a ton of wonderful things to offer all of its visitors. Many consider the island to be the "birthplace of Maryland." In the mid-1600s two ships, The Ark and The Dove, landed on the island and named it St. Clement after the patron saint of mariners. This was the beginning of the Maryland colony.
A City Full of American Beginnings
St. Mary’s City at the southernmost end of Maryland’s western shore is a place bursting with some of America’s greatest “firsts”. Founded in 1634 by a group of English settlers the city is known to be the birthplace of religious tolerance, the first place in America where a woman demanded the right to vote, it is the first official city in the history of Maryland, it was home to first printer in the southern colonies of America and it was the first successful proprietary colony in the United States, meaning that the charter to the land and the city was in private ownership, but the colony itself prospered.
