Approximately four miles south of Pocomoke City, the center is the gateway to Maryland’s lower Eastern Shore. Operated by Worcester County Tourism. Stop in for free maps and Destination Maryland travel guides.
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42,000 square-foot Maryland House features food and convenience store along with fueling station. LEED Silver certified.
The new 30,000 square-foot Chesapeake House features a variety of food choices, fueling and electric vehicle charging station. LEED Silver certified.
Expansive tidal marsh and open water make for great waterfowl viewing. Trails offer hunting, hiking, birding and nature photography.
Offers visitors the experience of seeing history being discovered by archaeologists working on an active excavation, who uncover relics from American Indians, a colonial town and a tobacco plantation. A National Park Service National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site.
Built in 1731, the church and manor house, formerly situated on over 700 acres, was an example of a self-contained Jesuit Community.
The current church built in 1799, is home to the oldest Episcopal Parish in Maryland and has held continuous services on site since 1638.
More than forty years experience guiding goose, duck hunting parties, as well as Chesapeake Bay sport fishing parties; corporate and private. Call for free brochure.
Enslaved people who were caught fleeing their enslavers were held in this historic county jail. Others who were charged with encouraging them to run away were jailed here too. An interpretive exhibit describes these cases.
In this post Civil War residence in 1866, Richard Potter wrote the narrative describing his kidnapping, “The Narrative of the Experience, Adventures and Escape of Richard Potter.” As a free black youth, Potter was kidnapped from Greensboro, Maryland and sold into slavery in Delaware. A National Park Service Network to Freedom site.