Towns, people and places
Wicomico County History
Explore contributed articles about Wicomico County communities, churches, families, landmarks, transportation, businesses, and everyday life on Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore.
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Articles and historical material
Source attributions are preserved on the individual pages. Contributed narratives may include family tradition or interpretations that researchers should verify against original records.
Towns and communities
- Wetipquin, Maryland Betty Murrell's short history of Wetipquin, its seventeenth-century land records, river trade, churches, and early families.
- Mardela Springs J. Howard Adkins on the early settlement, medicinal springs, transportation, businesses, and development of Mardela Springs.
- Quantico Elizabeth Phillips Myers' 1938 account of Quantico, its early settlement, transportation routes, churches, trades, and local traditions.
- Salisbury - How It Began Maria Ellegood's 1923 sketch of the beginnings and early development of Salisbury.
- Spring Hill Elizabeth Phillips Myers on Spring Hill Chapel, Old St. Giles, Rockawalkin Presbyterian Church, and the surrounding historic landscape.
- Barren Creek Springs Elizabeth Phillips Myers on Barren Creek Springs, the old post road, local land tracts, medicinal springs, and early community history.
- White Haven An excerpt from John E. Jacob, Jr. on White Haven's ferry, shipbuilding, hotel, river commerce, and preservation history.
- Bivalve, Maryland An account of Bivalve and its river-centered life, excerpted with permission from Paul Willing's Bivalve United Methodist Church centennial history.
- Sharptown An excerpt from John E. Jacob, Jr.'s pictorial history describing Sharptown's boatbuilding, commerce, transportation, and growth.
- Hebron Eric Ruark's history of Hebron, including the railroad, lumber and basket industries, businesses, churches, and community life.
Churches and religious history
- Bivalve Methodist Church The story of the church at Bivalve, excerpted with permission from Paul Willing's 1886-1986 centennial history.
- Early Roots of Methodism on the West Side Paul Willing's account of early Methodism in western Wicomico County, beginning with Francis Asbury and Freeborn Garrettson.
- The Quantico Circuit Material transcribed from the Quantico Circuit Methodist Episcopal Church record book, including early Methodist history and ministers.
People, families and everyday life
- Luther Franklin Mezick: Illustrated Biography The life of Wicomico County native Luther Franklin Mezick (1869–1917), Methodist evangelist, gospel singer, composer, temperance lecturer, and Prohibition Party activist, illustrated with family photographs, church records, sheet music, newspaper clippings, and his gravestone.
- The Adkins Family of Wicomico A family manuscript compiled in 1965 by Lura Bacon Winings, tracing branches of the Adkins family from Wicomico County into Ohio and Illinois.
- John Nelms Store Accounts of Salisbury Surnames A-C and debts due to Robert Handy's estate. Material from John E. Jacob, Jr.'s transcription and study of surviving eighteenth-century Salisbury store ledgers, including surnames A-C.
Landmarks and local life
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