North Cache News | 1941-03-14 | Page 7 | Maryland Short-Landed

Maryland Short-Landed If the early settlers of Maryland had possessed better geographic knowledge and claimed all the land granted to Lord Baltimore by the king of England in 1632, the state would be nearly 17,000 square miles in area, according to Collier's. Instead it has only 10,000 square miles, having lost the 7,000 miles, which are now worth about $12,000,000,000, to Delaware, Del-aware, Pennsylvania and what is now northern West Virginia.