unincorporated community
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Maryland
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, United States. Showell is located at the intersection of Worcester Highway and Pitts Road west of
U.S. Route 113
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to the north of
Berlin
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. The community takes its name from Samuel Showell, the owner of the original land grant upon which the town sits. Samuel Showell and his descendants owned several large parcels in the area, of which this was the largest, which were gradually divided among family members and then eventually sold off.
St. Martin's Episcopal Church was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1977.
Notable person
* Russell O. Hickman, Maryland legislator and businessman, was born in Stowell.'Maryland Manual 1969-1970,' vol. 174. Biographical Sketch of Russell O/ Hickman, pg. 356