The Pocomoke City Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

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 P ...

, Worcester County, Maryland. The historic district includes the central business district (CBD) and surrounding residential area of Pocomoke City. The CBD is defined by an important collection of late-19th century and early-20th century commercial and public architecture. It includes a significant array of Victorian, Colonial Revival, and Beaux-Arts influenced structures. The majority of the housing dates from 1870 to 1940. It is an example of a type of prosperous river town that characterized the region during the period, which retains an exceptional collection of 19th and 20th century building forms. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

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*, including photo dated 2002, at Maryland Historical Trust
Boundary Map of the Pocomoke City Historic District, Worcester County
at Maryland Historical Trust Historic districts in Worcester County, Maryland Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Beaux-Arts architecture in Maryland Colonial Revival architecture in Maryland Victorian architecture in Maryland Federal architecture in Maryland Pocomoke City, Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Maryland {{WorcesterCountyMD-NRHP-stub