| Maryland (Somerset County), Pocomoke City — Rehoboth — ("There is Room") |
| |
← 5 miles
1000 acres surveyed 1665 for
Col. William Stevens,
member of Governor's Council,
through whose influence
Francis Makemie
came to Maryland and established
Presbyterianism in the State. On this
same tract stood the Episcopal
Church of Coventry Parish. — Map (db m3883) HM |
| Maryland (Worcester County), Pocomoke City — Boundary Line Maryland - Virginia |
| | State line located approximately 100
yards south of this point. In 1668
surveyors marked large Oak trees
to indicate the boundry. These
came to be called "Marriage
Trees" as couples traveled from
Virginia to wed under more lenient
Maryland laws. Boundry stones
were set after 1883 survey. — Map (db m48604) HM |
| Maryland (Worcester County), Pocomoke City — Court House Hill |
| | Site of second known court
house of Somerset County on March 1,
1694, the court purchased land near
Dividing Creek and erected a
structure 50 feet by 20 feet,
"with gable ends of brick." The
court house functioned until 1742. — Map (db m60466) HM |
| Maryland (Worcester County), Pocomoke City — Mark O. Pilchard |
| | The U.S. Route 13 Travel Information Center
is dedicated to the Memory of
Mark O. Pilchard
In grateful Recognition of the Vision,
Dedication and Leadership he provided
in establishing the Center.
He served the citizens of the Lower Eastern Shore as a member of the House of Delegates
from 1959 - 1966 and from 1979 - 1989.
Dedicated
October 24, 1989 — Map (db m51129) HM |
| Maryland (Worcester County), Pocomoke City — Maryland's Eastern Shore — Hundreds of Enslaved and Free Black Men Enlisted |
| | Although isolated from Maryland's largest population centers, the Eastern Shore was important to the state's role in the Civil War and exemplified the citizens' divided loyalties.
In the years before the war, enslaved African-Americans here began escaping bondage via the Underground Railroad to the North and Canada, helped on their way by sympathetic blacks and whites and such courageous "conductors" as Harriet Tubman, an Eastern Shore native. During the war, hundreds of enslaved and free . . . — Map (db m51130) HM |
| Maryland (Worcester County), Pocomoke City — Sturgis One Room School — Museum |
| | Originally located on Brantley Road east of Pocomoke City, the Sturgis School is one of the last remaining one-room school buildings erected to educate African-American children in Worcester County. Dating around 1900, the single-story frame structure is similar to schools erected during the nineteenth century with its one-room plan, six-over-six sash windows, and plain weatherboard siding. The interior remains with its characteristic board wainscoting below the window sill level and a . . . — Map (db m63474) HM |
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