The United States Naval Academy is in Maryland.
Annapolis, Maryland . Annapolis is the home of St. John 's College as well as the United States Naval Academy . Fort Severn , in present-day Annapolis , Maryland , was built in 1808 on the same site as an earlier American Revolutionary War fort of 1776 . United States Naval Academy . The 338 acre campus is located on the former grounds of Fort Severn at the confluence of the Severn River and Chesapeake Bay in Anne Arundel County , 33 mi east of Washington , D.C. and 26 mi southeast of Baltimore . It replaced Philadelphia Naval Asylum , in Philadelphia , that served as the first United States Naval Academy from 1838 to 1845 when the Naval Academy formed in Annapolis .