In 1985, former Missouri Congressman James Wadsworth Symington gave Washington College a truly special gift: Alexander Hamilton’s personal copy of George Washington’s Message from the President of the United States of America.
In 1827, Washington College’s original (and only) college building was destroyed by fire. Shortly after the new college building, today’s Middle Hall, was built, the college admitted a limited number of grammar school students, who were educated in that same building. Among these young students was a boy who would go on to become a prolific, celebrated, and internationally-known journalist who also authored poems, short stories, and novels about Maryland and especially his native Eastern Shore.
On September 26, 1777, the British, led by General Howe, marched into the new American capital of Philadelphia. Was this really a victory for the British?
Washington College’s esteemed professor Emeritus Robert “Rob” J.H. Janson-La Palme passed away on September 1, 2026. He was 97 years old.
At the end of August 1868, the Newport Reading Room auctioned her last painting of George Washington. Did it end up here at Washington College?
Most of our student body was not yet born when the Pentagon and World Trade Center were attacked on a sunny Tuesday morning twenty-five years ago.
On September 11, 1777, a year after the Battle of Brooklyn and the sacrifice of the Maryland 400, Maryland troops once again fought in the largest single-day engagement of the American Revolution.
On August 27th, 1776, the first battle of the American Revolution after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence took place.
Welcome back to a brand-new year at Washington College.
You did it!
