Klej Grange, Maryland

Maryland's Catholic roots run deep. Although St. Katherine Drexel was from Philly, her family has ties to Maryland's glorious Eastern Shore. Her uncle, Joseph William Drexel, purchased a substantial part of the estate of Matthias Lindsey, known as Lindseyville, to create a planned community where low cost farmland would be offered to benefit the poor. 

Unable to come up with a new name, Drexel decided on the acronym "Klej" from the initials of the names of his four daughters, St. Katherine's cousins -Katherine, Lucy, Elizabeth, and Josephine. "Grange" was likely a a reference to the The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization in the United States that encourages families to band together to promote the economic and political well-being of the community and agriculture.