Annapolis is Capital of the US

For a brief period in 1784, Annapolis was the official capital of the United States and before moving toward DC there was a serious campaign to get Congress to stay in the city. Maryland's legislature would then have moved to Baltimore or to another location in Maryland, possibly St Mary. What would have happened for the development of the region if this had occurred?
 
Long term? Probably not much - still in a southern state, not too far off from OTL Washington, and still by (hell, closer) to Chesapeake Bay. It's really just a name change and bit of a different locale, to me.
 

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Long term? Probably not much - still in a southern state, not too far off from OTL Washington, and still by (hell, closer) to Chesapeake Bay. It's really just a name change and bit of a different locale, to me.

Might be easier for the British to hold the Capital if it were at Annapolis during the War of 1812...
 
Probably not gonna happen, since DC was specifically built/designed so that no one state could claim ownership of the Capital. You'd have to boot Annapolis out of Maryland to have it stay the Capital.
 
Make Boston a federal district and make it be the capital instead, much better

Only if you ignore the sectionalism that necessitated a stateless capitol in the first place. No way the South would let the Yanks get it like that.
 
Besides, Philly was a better capital in that regard any way...

Indeed, if the South were willing to accept Boston as a capital, then there'd have been no need to leave Philly in the first place. The Mid-Atlantic was too far north for them, so New England's right out.
 
Probably not gonna happen, since DC was specifically built/designed so that no one state could claim ownership of the Capital. You'd have to boot Annapolis out of Maryland to have it stay the Capital.

Well, either way Maryland loses some territory
 
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