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Catonsville, MD
Catonsville developed in the 19th century as a resort community for wealthy Baltimore residents seeking to escape the summer heat of the city, and its elevated position on a ridge west of Baltimore gave it a genuinely cooler climate that made it an attractive retreat well before it became a year-round suburb. The community became nationally known in 1968 as the site of the "Catonsville Nine" draft board raid, in which a group of Vietnam War protesters, including Catholic priests Daniel and Philip Berrigan, seized and burned draft records using homemade napalm outside the local Selective Service office — an act of civil disobedience that became one of the most widely covered anti-war protests of the era and inspired a play and film. Catonsville's historic Frederick Road corridor has preserved a walkable cluster of late-19th and early-20th-century commercial buildings, and the area is also home to the Catonsville campus of the Community College of Baltimore County, giving the community a modest higher-education presence alongside its historic resort-town character. Catonsville's combination of its origins as a 19th-century Baltimore summer retreat and its unexpected role in one of the most significant anti-Vietnam War protests in American history has made it one of the more historically layered suburbs anywhere west of Baltimore.
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Annapolis, MD
Annapolis has served as the capital of Maryland since 1695 and briefly functioned as the capital of the entire United States in 1783 and 1784, when the Continental Congress met in the Maryland State House — the building where George Washington formally resigned his military commission, an event now considered one of the more remarkable voluntary transfers of power in the founding of American democracy. The United States Naval Academy, founded in Annapolis in 1845, occupies a substantial waterfront campus along the Severn River and gives the city an enduring military-academic identity, with the Naval Academy's massed formations, sailing programs, and graduation ceremonies drawing visitors well beyond the school's own midshipmen and their families. Annapolis's historic district, built around a colonial-era street grid radiating out from the State House and the Naval Academy, has preserved one of the highest concentrations of original 18th-century buildings still standing in any American city, a density of colonial architecture that's made the compact downtown a genuine open-air museum. Annapolis's combination of serving as Maryland's colonial-era and current state capital, briefly hosting the entire nation's capital function, and housing the US Naval Academy has made it one of the most historically significant small cities anywhere on the East Coast, sitting at the edge of the greater Baltimore-Washington corridor.
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