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Welcome
to Maryland American
History and Genealogy Project
we are in the process of
building new State and County pages for the states where
the coordinator has moved on to other projects. Caroline County is looking for a new Coordinator would you
be interested? If so please contact
Webmaster.
Many of the present coordinators are always willing to give help and
suggestions to newcomers, you can learn, I did and that was after 60!!
Read our
About Page and see what our requirements are,
pretty easy!
Court House at Denton
Caroline is one of the smaller Maryland counties and is
the most inland of those on the Eastern Shore. Wicomico
alone accepted, it is the only one in that section not
having an extensive bayside border. The Delaware line
bounds it on the east, Dorset on the south, Great
Choptank and Tuckahoe Rivers on the west, and Queen
Anne's on the north.
The area of the county is 320 square miles, and it was
named in honor of Lady Eden, and its county seat was
first called Eden-Town, after Governor Eden, It was
erected in 1773. The soil is of sand and clay, adapted
to a variety of crops, from wheat to berries.
Fruit-growing is a prominent industry, and canneries are
operated in every section of the county. A local
industry is charcoal-burning.
The Queen Anne's Railroad has done much to develop the
central section of the county and to quicken village
growth. The Delaware and Chesapeake Railway runs through
the northwestern part, and the Cambridge and Seaford
line through the extreme southeast. On the Choptank,
steamboats ply daily to Denton. The population of Denton
is 900. Ridgely (population, 713) and Greensborough are
important fruit shipping stations, and the next largest
towns. Federalsburg (population, 539), on the northwest
fork of the Nanticoke, has several local industries, and
Preston, on the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic
Railway, which curves through southwestern Caroline;
Hillsborough, Burrsville, Choptank are progressive
towns. Hillsborough Academy was noted among the
classical public schools of the post-Revolutionary
period.
One of the first acts of the people of this county was
the promulgation of the "Caroline Resolutions of 1774,"
pledging resistance to the arbitrary measures of
Parliament. The county was distinguished in the
Revolution. At Ridgely is an extensive basket and
berry-cup manufactory.
Online Here or Other Sites
Maryland
AHGP
Source: History of Maryland, by
L. Magruder Passano, Wm. J.C. Dulany Company, 1901.
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