In some counties in Maryland you can find what 17th century life must have been like just minutes from the most traveled roads. St. Mary's County is one of these remote areas.
Different attractions draw people here each year, yet it stays primarily historic and pristine.
You may enjoy learning from the Naval Air Test and Evaluation Museum at Patuxent Naval Air Base or about the Civil War from the Old Jail Museum at Point Lookout State Park with its marvelous camping area and beaches or about crafts at Cecil's Mill and Christmas County Store. Historic St. Mary's City was the first proprietary colony in America and the first capital of Maryland. It remains much as it was with an old style tavern, called Farthings' Kitchen. Its long tables with benches and its bedroom with rope beds were typical in colonial times. Split rail fences and open fields show the countryside around the city, fairly much as it was all those centuries ago.