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English settlers were greeted on the tip of Southern Maryland by the Powhatan tribe in 1632. The 7th Colony, Maryland had ports in St. Mary's and Annapolis, and settlements along both sides of the Chesapeake Bay and into the Potomac and Patapsco rivers by 1670. Established as a city in 1725, Baltimore's port at the mouth of the Patapsco grew quickly as agricultural crops and iron ore shipped to English ports.