Goodwill is an
unincorporated community
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five miles (8 km) east of
Pocomoke City in
Worcester County,
Maryland
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, United States, located at .
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Originally called Davis Crossroads, or simply Crossroads, Goodwill grew at the crossing of the roads leading from Mattapony Landing on the ]Pocomoke River
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down into Virginia
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, and from Stevens Landing (now Pocomoke City) to Sandy Hill (later Stockton). The latter road is now Maryland Route 366
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.
Sometime in the late 19th or early 20th century, Davis Crossroads began to be referred to by the name of the Methodist church there, the Goodwill Methodist Church, and the name stuck. Among Goodwill's small number of houses are two that are converted one-room schoolhouses.[Touart, Paul Baker, ''Along the Seaboard Side: The Architectural History of Worcester County, Maryland'' (1994).]
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Unincorporated communities in Worcester County, Maryland
Unincorporated communities in Maryland