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 History
Maryland's economic agency traces its roots to the Bureau of Statistics and Information, created in 1884 to "quantify the state's agricultural, mineral and industrial output, and commerce and transportation networks." The Agency's duties expanded over 125 years to include current role as the state's one-stop economic development shop.
1995-
present | Department of Business & Economic Development
Employment services reassigned and focus on job creation and retention.
| 1987-95 | Department of Economic & Employment Development
Merged Departments of Economic and Community Development and Employment and Training.
| 1970-87 | Department of Economic & Community Development
Added social, cultural and fiscal community programs.
| 1959-70 | Department of Economic Development
Merged Business and Industrial Development, Research and Tourist Development and Publicity with the Development Credit Corporation.
| 1959 | Development Credit Corporation of Maryland
Created to provide small business loans.
| 1949-59 | Department of Information
A division of the Hall of Records, it became an independent agency in to compile data about industry, agriculture, natural resources, recreation, government and history.
| 1948 | Hall of Records Commission
| 1945-48 | Department of Labor and Industry
| 1916-45 | State Board of Labor and Statistics
| 1892-1916 | Bureau of Industrial Statistics
| 1884-92 | Bureau of Statistics and Information
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