Statehouse Scenes
The Statehouse, built in 1779, is the oldest in the nation still in legislative use. In the old Senate Chamber is where George Washington resigned his commission in 1783. The Continental Congress also ratified the Treaty of Paris here, formally ending the Revolutionary War, and appointed Thomas Jefferson Minister Plenipotentary. Annapolis thus became the nation’s capital for a short time from November 1783 until August 1784. From here in September 1786, the Annapolis Convention issued the call to the states for the Constitutional Convention, and the new constitutional republican nation was formed
Statehouse Monuments
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney
Exterior and Interior Views
DeKalb was a French general who was killed fighting the British during the Revolutionary War.
A monument to Justice Thurgood Marshall, on the north side of the Statehouse near St. John’s College, which itself dates back to the 17th Century