 Revelers were having so much fun that they opted to slide the Federalist down the hill and launch it from "The Basin" (today"s Inner Harbor) to be sailed later down the Chesapeake Bay to the state capital at Annapolis, following then up the Potomac River to be presented to retired Continental Army General George Washington at his riverfront Mount Vernon estate plantation.This celebration was so legendary that Baltimoreans renamed ‘John Smith’s Hill’ in tribute to the party boat.Hence the origin of the Park’s name