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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. Queen
Anne 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
Centerville
Queen Anne's County was erected in 1706, and the bounds
of the four counties above the Great Choptank were
described and fixed by the Assembly of that year with
definiteness.
Queen Anne's takes in the territory between the Delaware
line and the Bay (including Kent Island) south of the
Chester and north of the Wye and Tuckahoe Rivers. Kent
is its northern and Talbot and Caroline its southern
neighbors. Agriculturally, the county is highly favored,
the soil being very fertile and the surface rolling. The
area of the county is 376 square miles. Kent Island is
opposite Anne Arundel, and its wooded shores are visible
from the State House at Annapolis. Although under
cultivation for two and a half centuries, the island is
the delight of agriculturists, its rich soil producing
in profusion all the staple Maryland crops.
Oysters, crabs, fish and water fowl are plentiful in
Queen Anne's waters. Practically all the arable land of
the county is under cultivation. The industrial
establishments are chiefly flour mills and canneries.
The Queen Anne's Railroad runs from Love Point, on Kent
Island, through the southern part of the county to
Lewes, Delaware, and the Queen Anne's and Kent Railroad,
of the Pennsylvania system, terminates at Centreville,
the county seat (population, 1,231), to which point a
spur of the Queen Anne's has been extended.
Steamboats bring the watersides of the county within a
few hours' trip of Baltimore City. Queenstown, on the
eastern waterfront, was the colonial county seat, and
has an interesting history. A school here attained some
reputation before the revolution. In provincial times
Queen Anne's and Talbot were favorite places of summer
residence for leading men of Maryland, who cultivated
broad estates in these counties in the intervals between
their official duties at Annapolis or participation in
its social gayeties. Queen Anne's rivals St. Mary's as
the favorite field of writers of historical romances.
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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