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Pocomoke City
Pocomoke City, dubbed "the friendliest town on the Eastern Shore", is a city in Worcester County, Maryland, United States. Although renamed in a burst of civic enthusiasm in 1878, the city is regularly referred to by its inhabitants simply as Pocomoke . The population was 4,184 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. Pocomoke City is a center for commerce on the lower shore, home to an industrial park currently playing host to defense contractors, aerospace engineering, and plastics fabrication. Pocomoke City is located near the Wallops Island Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. History Beginning in the late seventeenth century, a small settlement called Stevens Landing (sometimes Stevens Ferry) grew at the ferry landing on the south bank of the Pocomoke River. The town was incorporated as Newtown (or New Town) in 1865, but was reincorporated in 1878 as Pocomoke City, after the American Indian name of the ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City (Maryland)
Maryland is a U.S. state, state located in the Southern United States, Southern United States. According to the 2020 United States Census, Maryland is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 18th most populous state with inhabitants and the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 9th smallest by land area spanning of land. The state is divided into 23 County (United States), counties and contains 157 Municipal corporation, municipalities consisting of city, cities, towns, or villages. Its municipality, municipalities cover only of the state's land mass but are home to of its population. As Maryland does not have minor civil divisions such as townships, areas outside of municipalities have no government below the county level. Municipalities in Maryland—except Baltimore, which was chartered by the state Constitution—are self-governing municipalities chartered as cities, towns, or villages by an Act of the Maryland General Assembly or, in some cases, by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
