Dr. Alexander Hamilton was a Scottish-born doctor and writer who lived and worked in Annapolis in 18th-century colonial Maryland. Historian Leo Lemay says his 1744 travel diary Gentleman's Progress: T
Alexander Hamilton's self-portrait from The History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club, held at The John Work Garrett Library
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The music of Annapolis, Maryland, played a major role in the music history of the United States during the colonial era and has since produced a number of notable musical institutions and groups.
Alexander Hamilton (Maryland doctor)
…and critiquing a fellow traveller's behavior in an inn in order to demonstrate ideas surrounding gentility in colonial America. Hamilton also founded The Tuesday Club in 1745. This Annapolis-based social club included prominent men of the colonial Maryland community as both members and guests. Hamilton wrote a humorous…
Caricature featuring the Tuesday Club's comic orchestra from The history of the ancient and honorable Tuesday club, ca 1755. From the collection at the John Work Garrett Library.
The band Good Charlotte, originally from nearby Waldorf, moved to Annapolis in 1998
David Dixon Porter, Superintendent of the Academy, modernized the Band.