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In 1748, a portion of Prince George’s County was allocated to form Frederick County. Frederick County was subsequently divided to form what are currently Allegany, Garrett, Montgomery, and Washington counties. In 1791, a portion of Prince George’s County was ceded to form the District of Columbia, Washington, DC.
A Prince George's County native, Daniel Carroll, was one of the signers of the U.S. Constitution. In 1790, when the Congress in Philadelphia decided to locate the new federal capital somewhere along the Potomac River, Prince George's County ceded most of the land necessary to establish the District of Columbia.
Territorial evolution of the District of Columbia. District of Columbia retrocession is the act of returning some or all of the land that had been ceded to the federal government of the United States for the purpose of creating its federal district for the new national capital, which was moved from Philadelphia to what was then called the City of Washington in 1800.
In 1790, when the Congress in Philadelphia decided to relocate the new federal capital, Prince George's County ceded most of the land necessary to establish the District of Columbia. The development of the capital was aided immeasurably by Benjamin Stoddert of Bostwick , who as George Washington's agent acquired much of the needed land.
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Prince George's County was formed from land in Calvert and Charles Counties by an act of the General Assembly on St. George's Day, April 23, 1696. The County was named for Prince George of Denmark, husband of Princess Anne, heir to the throne of England.
Because Frederick County was subsequently divided to form the present Allegany, Garrett, Montgomery, and Washington counties, all of these counties in addition were derived from what had up to 1748 been Prince George's County. In 1791, portions of Prince George's County were ceded to form the new District of Columbia, along with portions of ...
The new Prince George’s County extended from the Charles County line on the south and all the way to the Pennsylvania border, and marked Maryland’s western frontier. It remained the frontier county until 1748, when the westernmost regions were granted their own government, and Prince George’s County’s northern
