Worcester County

Worcester County, Maryland, United States
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Simpson's Grove (Q7521057)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Simpson's Grove, also known as Hudson Farm, is a historic home located at Ironshire, Worcester County, Maryland, United States. It was built about 1800 and is a two-story, five bay, double pile Federal-style frame house. A brick dairy stands on the property. The exterior is sided in cypress.

NRHP reference number: 96000949

WEES-LP (Q7948830)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WEES-LP (107.9 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to serve Ocean City, Maryland. The station is owned by Edinboro Early School Inc. It airs a Variety format featuring educational programs, oldies music, community affairs programs, and other locally produced programs. WEES-LP maintains a public studio in the Gold Coast Mall on the Coastal Highway in Ocean City.

website: https://www.wees.org/

Sherwood Forest (Q7495528)
item type: unincorporated community in the United States
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Sherwood Forest [ʃʌrwʊd] is an unincorporated community in Worcester County, Maryland, United States. Sherwood Forest is located in the southern portion of Ocean Pines.

USGS GNIS ID: 1669038

Queponco Railway Station (Q7271308)
item type: railway station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Queponco is a historic United States railway station located at 8378 Patey Woods Road, Newark, Worcester County, Maryland. Constructed by the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Queponco railway station served Snow Hill, Berlin and Newark communities. The station closed in the 1960s.

website: https://worcestermuseums.org/queponco-railway-station.php; NRHP reference number: 95001546

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: Former Pennsylvania Railroad stations, Former railway stations in Maryland
Samuel Gunn House (Q7411551)
item type: house
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Samuel Gunn House is a historic house in Snow Hill, Worcester County, Maryland. Built around 1780, it is one of the oldest and best preserved of the 18th century Georgian town dwellings in Worcester County. It is a two-story, side hall / double pile frame house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

NRHP reference number: 02001594

WICO-FM (Q7946593)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WICO-FM (101.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Snow Hill, Maryland, United States. The station serves the Delmarva Peninsula. The station is currently owned by A. Wray Fitch and Greg Bojko, through licensee GSB Media, LLC.

website: http://www.wsuxfm.com/

WAVD (Q7946826)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WAVD (97.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to Ocean Pines, Maryland, United States, the station serves Ocean City, Maryland. The station is currently owned by Forever Media.

website: http://www.971thewave.com, http://971thewave.com

WGOP (Q7949882)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WGOP (540 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Pocomoke City, Maryland, United States, airing a classic hits format. It is owned by The Waters Group, LLC, and is also broadcast over low-power translator W293DN (106.5 FM).

website: http://easternshoremedia.net/wgop-540am/

WQHQ (Q7954656)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WQHQ (104.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an adult contemporary format. Licensed to Ocean City, Maryland, United States, the station is owned by iHeartMedia.

website: http://www.q105fm.com, http://q105fm.iheart.com; USGS GNIS ID: 598494

WBBX (Q7957853)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WBBX (106.1 MHz) is an FM radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to Pocomoke City, Maryland, United States, the station is owned by Vinco Media LLC (Vince Klepac). The station was assigned the WBBX call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on February 6, 2020.

website: http://www.thevaultrocks.com/

Trimper's Rides (Q7842260)
item type: amusement park
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Trimper Rides Of Ocean City is a amusement park located near the inlet at South First Street and the boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland, United States. It was founded in 1893 as The Windsor Resort. It is located at the south end of the boardwalk and consists of three outdoor lots and an indoor section.

website: http://www.trimpersrides.com/

WLBW (Q7952140)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WLBW is a radio station in the Fenwick Island / Ocean City area of Delaware and Maryland and broadcasting at 92.1 MHz. The station plays a contemporary Christian music format as part of the K-Love network. The station is owned by the Educational Media Foundation.

WOCM (Q7953768)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WOCM (98.1 FM, "Ocean 98") is an AAA/Rock radio station in the Ocean City, Maryland, area.

website: http://irieradio.com

WWFG (Q7957231)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WWFG (99.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country format. Licensed to Ocean City, Maryland, United States, the station is currently owned by iHeartMedia, Inc.

website: http://www.froggy999.com, http://froggy999.iheart.com

St. Martin's Episcopal Church (Q7590018)
item type: church building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

St. Martin's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located on Route 113 at the intersection with Route 589 in Showell, Worcester County, Maryland. Much of the original Flemish bond brick structure is retained. Built as the first parish church of Worcester Parish, which had been established in 1753, it was started in 1756 and completed in 1759. Attendance dwindled after St. Paul's Episcopal Church was established in nearby Berlin in 1824, and by the end of the century the facility was used only sporadically.

NRHP reference number: 77000707

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: Former Episcopal church buildings in the United States
WKZP (Q7952080)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WKZP (95.9 FM) is a radio station serving Salisbury and Ocean City, Maryland, as well as Sussex County, Delaware. The station, known as "KISS 95-9," is licensed to West Ocean City, Maryland. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc.

website: http://www.kiss959fm.com/

USCGC Point Thatcher (Q7866219)
item type: ship
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

USCGC Point Thatcher (WPB-82314) was an 82-foot (25 m) Point class cutter constructed at the Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, Maryland in 1961 for use as a law enforcement and search and rescue patrol boat. Since the Coast Guard policy in 1961 was not to name cutters under 100 feet (30 m) in length, it was designated as WPB-82314 when commissioned and acquired the name Point Thatcher in January 1964 when the Coast Guard started naming all cutters longer than 65 feet (20 m). Point Thatcher was unique because it was the only cutter that was built in the class that was powered using gas turbine main drive engines.

Harry W. Kelley Memorial Bridge (Q14629098)
item type: bridge
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Harry W. Kelley Memorial Bridge is a bridge in the U.S. state of Maryland. It carries 4 lanes of U.S. Route 50, plus two sidewalks, across Sinepuxent Bay, connecting the downtown area of Ocean City, Maryland to the mainland of Worcester County, Maryland within West Ocean City, and is mere feet from the national eastern terminus of said route. It is one of four entrances to the resort town, and the southernmost of them all; the others are Maryland Route 90, Delaware Route 54, and Delaware Route 1. The bridge features a drawbridge span near the Ocean City end. The bridge is named for Harry W. Kelley, a former mayor of Ocean City.

Mount Zion One Room School (Q14692263)
item type: architectural structure
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Mt. Zion One Room School is a historic U.S. school until November 2015 located at Ironshire Street at intersection with Church Street, Snow Hill, Maryland when it was moved by the Worcester County Historical Society to the Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum located on Old Furnace Road off Route 12, 5 miles North of Snow Hill, Maryland. The community used this one room school until 1931.

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: Defunct schools in Maryland
Williams Grove (Q8021031)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Williams Grove is a historic home located at Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story, three-part house built in three principal stages. The construction sequence began about 1810 with a two-story, two-bay frame house with a single-story wing, that forms the center of the house. The house was expanded first during the mid 19th century and in the early 1970s, a two-story kitchen and garage wing was added. The exterior is covered with cypress shingles.

NRHP reference number: 96000919

Jolly Roger Amusement Park (Q15229708)
item type: amusement park
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Jolly Roger Amusement Park is an amusement park located in Ocean City, Maryland. The park features two locations in Ocean City: one at the pier on the Ocean City boardwalk and one further uptown at 30th Street. Both locations feature numerous thrill rides, including a looping roller coaster at the pier, bumper cars, a ferris wheel, a carousel, and kiddie rides, among others. The parks also contain typical carnival-like games and eateries. The 30th Street location additionally features two eighteen-hole mini-golf courses, Splash Mountain, a full-service waterpark with many slides and activity pools, and 10 go-kart tracks.

website: http://jollyrogerpark.com/ocean-city-amusement-parks/Jolly-Roger-at-the-Pier

Whiton (Q7996777)
item type: unincorporated community in the United States
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Whiton [waɪtɪn] is an unincorporated community in Wicomico and Worcester counties in the U.S. state of Maryland. Whiton is located on Maryland Route 354, 7.2 miles (11.6 km) south-southwest of Willards.

USGS GNIS ID: 591553

Young-Sartorius House (Q8057840)
item type: house
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Young-Sartorius House is a historic home located at Pocomoke City, Worcester County, Maryland. It is a 2+12-story, center-passage / single-pile frame dwelling built in two stages between about 1860 and about 1900.

NRHP reference number: 96000948

WRDE-FM (Q14692471)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WRDE-FM (103.9 MHz) is an American radio station in the Delmarva region of Maryland. The station is licensed to serve Berlin, Maryland, although its studios and main offices are located in the larger nearby city of Salisbury. WRDE-FM is owned by Draper Holdings Business Trust. The station, along with WCEM-FM (106.3) in Cambridge, broadcasts a country music format.

website: http://www.oc104.com/

Makemie Memorial Presbyterian Church (Q14692146)
item type: church building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Makemie Memorial Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located in Snow Hill, Worcester County, Maryland.

NRHP reference number: 08001044

Dog and Bitch Island (Q19880324)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Dog and Bitch Island is, depending on the source, one or two islands in Worcester County, Maryland, in the United States. It is located within the Isle of Wight Bay. The island is small in size and marshy. In 2014 the federal Army Corps of Engineers pumped 18,000 cubic yards (14,000 m3) of material from navigation channel dredging operations onto the island to improve migratory bird habitat.

Rackliffe House (Q20858231)
item type: house museum
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Rackliffe House is a restored 18th-century coastal plantation house overlooking Sinepuxent Bay. The house is located at 11700 Tom Patton Lane, Berlin, Maryland, 21811, within walking distance of the Assateague Island Visitor Center at Assateague State Park, Maryland. Built of Flemish bond brick with random glazed headers, the house would have been "one of the most impressive gentry dwellings in the region" in the 18th century. The plantation house is one of a small number of remaining tidewater dwellings from colonial times, and may be the only one of its kind and vintage in the Mid-Atlantic region that is open to the public.

website: https://www.rackliffehouse.org/

Western Fields (Q7987834)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Western Fields is a historic home located at Hebron, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. It is a Greek Revival-style three-part frame "telescope" dwelling started about 1790 and expanded in the mid-19th century. The main block was constructed in 1845. The property also includes an early-20th century frame tenant house and corn crib, and a small family cemetery. In 1997, the Maple Leaf Farm Potato House was moved to Western Fields. Since 1825, the property was owned by the Phillips family, prominent Wicomico County planters during the 19th and 20th centuries.

NRHP reference number: 87000641

All Hallows Episcopal Church (Q4728795)
item type: church building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The construction of All Hallows Episcopal Church, also known as All Hallows, Snow Hill, located at 109 West Market Street in Snow Hill, Maryland, was funded in 1748 by an act of the Maryland Colonial Assembly, which taxed tobacco for the church. Completed in 1756, it is an unusually elaborate building for its time and place. All Hallows Parish is one of the original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland.

Street address: 101 North Church Street (from Wikidata)

NRHP reference number: 79001148

Bishopville (Q3886990)
item type: unincorporated community in the United States
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Bishopville [bɪʃɪpvɪl] is an unincorporated community and census-designated place 10 miles (16 km) north of Berlin in Worcester County, Maryland, United States. The community is just south of the Delaware state line. It is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, Bishopville had a population of 531.

USGS GNIS ID: 2629788, 583255

George Washington Purnell House (Q5546016)
item type: house
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The George Washington Purnell House in Snow Hill, Maryland, is a gothic revival house built around 1860. The frame-and-weatherboard house retains its original decorative millwork; and is enhanced by a cast-iron fence along the street frontage.

NRHP reference number: 96000920

Caleb's Discovery (Q5019203)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Caleb's Discovery is a historic home located two miles west of Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland. The house consists of two sections, the 1+12-story kitchen wing, dating from the early 18th century, and the 2+12-story living room wing, dating from about 1820. It is a good illustration of the incorporation of an early house into a later structure without the loss of the earlier building's identity.

NRHP reference number: 75000931

Chanceford (Q5070756)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Chanceford is an 18th-century building in Maryland located at 209, West Federal Street, Snow Hill, Worcester County, Maryland. It is an early example of a neo-classical temple-fronted dwelling on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

NRHP reference number: 94001077

Genesar (Q5532702)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Genesar is a historic home located near Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland, United States. It is a 2+12-story brick dwelling. It represents the hold-over forms of medieval work and the earliest development towards the more formal Georgian ideals in plan and design.

NRHP reference number: 71000381

Glen Riddle Farm (Q5567987)
item type: geographical feature
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Glen Riddle Farm was a large horse farm in Berlin, Maryland in the United States. Located on what today is Route 50 between Ocean City and Berlin, it was owned by a wealthy textile businessman Samuel D. Riddle who named it for his home town Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania which in turn had been named for his grandfather.

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: Former populated places in Maryland
Beverly (Q4899459)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Beverly is a historic home located in Pocomoke City, Worcester County, Maryland, United States. It is a 2+12-story, Georgian-style Flemish bond brick house built about 1770. The house faces the Pocomoke River. An original circular ice house survives on the property.

NRHP reference number: 75000933

Crockett House (Q5187353)
item type: house
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Crockett House is a historic home located at Pocomoke City, Worcester County, Maryland, United States. The house is a two-story center passage plan frame dwelling, constructed about 1850, that reflects the influence of the Greek Revival style. Attached is a stepped "telescope" service wing.

NRHP reference number: 96000299

Girdletree Barnes Bank (Q5564210)
item type: museum
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Girdletree Barnes Bank is located on Snow Hill Road (Route 12) between Snow Hill and Stockton, Girdletree, Maryland, United States. The bank includes a walk-in vault and antique teller cages. The Girdletree Barnes Bank now serves as the Girdletree Barnes Bank Museum.

Cedar Hall (Q5056740)
item type: unincorporated community in the United States
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Cedar Hall is an unincorporated community in Worcester County, Maryland, United States. Cedar Hall is located in the southwestern corner of the county along the Pocomoke River.

Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum (Q5509626)
item type: museum
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Old Furnace Town Heritage Museum is an outdoor museum near Snow Hill, Maryland that uses a living history format with live demonstrations to re-create a vanished 19th-century community. The museum contains various historic buildings, including most importantly the Nassawango Iron Furnace, an early 19th-century brick blast furnace that was used to smelt bog iron ore to make pig iron. Other buildings, all of which have been moved to the site, include a church, a store, and several houses, one of which is used as an information center.

website: http://www.furnacetown.com/

Burley Manor (Q4999154)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Burley Manor is a historic home located in Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland. It is a Federal-style brick house built about 1832.

NRHP reference number: 74000979

Fassitt House (Q5436855)
item type: house
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Fassitt House is a historic home located at Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland, United States. It is a 1+12-story Flemish bond brick house erected about 1669 on property bordering Sinepuxent Bay. The main side features a carefully laid decorative checkerboard brick pattern. The interior features fine examples of Georgian raised-panel woodwork finish in the first-floor rooms. The property includes two historic outbuildings, a shingled frame smokehouse and a log corncrib, and a modern one-story guest house.

NRHP reference number: 96000921

Mansion House (Q6751753)
item type: plantation
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Mansion House, located near Public Landing, Maryland, United States, is an early-to-mid-19th century plantation house built as the main residence of a forced-labor farm of more than 250 acres. This "telescoping house" was built in five main parts beginning about 1835. The distinct blocks were designed in a manner that separated the main house from the enslaved servants' quarters while keeping them close at hand.

NRHP reference number: 94001643

Nun's Green (Q7069716)
item type: plantation
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Nun's Green is a small 18th-century plantation house located in Snow Hill, Maryland, US, one of fourteen remaining structures from that era in Worcester County. It exhibits a characteristic three-part layout, with a main block joined by a lower hyphen to a kitchen block in the rear.

NRHP reference number: 79003263

Klej Grange (Q6420402)
item type: unincorporated community in the United States
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Klej Grange is an unincorporated community three miles (5 km) northwest of Stockton in Worcester County, Maryland, United States. It is located at the intersection of Klej Grange, Betheden Church, and Ward Roads.

USGS GNIS ID: 585326

Mattapony (Q6789607)
item type: geographic region
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Mattapony locally was a former hundred in Worcester County, Maryland.

Governor John Walter Smith House (Q5589583)
item type: single-family detached home
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Governor John Walter Smith House is a historic home located at Snow Hill, Worcester County, Maryland. It is an unusually large and elaborate example of the Queen Anne style of domestic architecture. It was built in 1889-90 for local landowner John Walter Smith, who was later a United States representative, Governor of Maryland and United States Senator. The house retains its interior millwork and unusual Art Nouveau stained glass windows.

NRHP reference number: 94001146

Littleton T. Clarke House (Q6653134)
item type: house
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Littleton T. Clarke House is a historic home located at Pocomoke City, Worcester County, Maryland, United States. It is a 2+12-story Second Empire–style frame house with a concave curved mansard roof constructed about 1860.

NRHP reference number: 96000519

Merry Sherwood (Q6820474)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Merry Sherwood is a historic plantation house located at Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland, United States. It is a massive, three-story, five-bay, double-pile, frame dwelling, built about 1859 in the Italianate style. The house is topped by a flat roof, projecting cornice, and a large cupola. The roof of the cupola is capped with a pointed wooden spire. It is current operated as wedding and special event venue.

NRHP reference number: 91001420

Henry's Grove (Q5716867)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Henry's Grove is a historic home located at Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland, United States. It was built in 1792, and is a 2+12-story gable-roofed brick house with all walls laid in Flemish bond. The house retains virtually all of its original interior detailing. Also on the property are a 20th-century frame tenant house and four frame outbuildings. It was built for a planter, John Fassitt, whose initials and the date 1792 are inscribed on a plaque in a gable end.

NRHP reference number: 84001891

James Martin House (Q6139008)
item type: house
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The James Martin House, built c. 1790, is the only remaining representative of a gambrel-roof timber frame dwelling on the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland. Two other buildings of similar form, Pemberton Hall and Bryan's Manor are brick buildings. The interior retains much of its original raised-panel woodwork.

NRHP reference number: 96000922

Ocean City High School (Q7075958)
item type: secondary school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Ocean City High School was a public high school in Ocean City, Worcester County, Maryland, United States.

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: 1955 disestablishments in Maryland, Defunct schools in Maryland
Captain Robert S. Craig Cottage (Q65080657)
item type: house
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Captain Robert S. Craig Cottage, also known as Bay Breeze, is a historic building located in Ocean City, Worcester County, Maryland, United States. It is a simple 1½-story rectangular frame structure with a gable roof. The full-width front porch is capped with an open X-cross balustrade. A two-bedroom rental apartment was added to the rear of the house around 1964. At about the same time, a tool shed that originally stood on a lot at 13th Street and Philadelphia Avenue was moved to this location and converted into an efficiency rental apartment.

Street address: 706 St. Louis Avenue (from Wikidata)

NRHP reference number: 100001929

WKHI (Q55637260)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WKHI (94.5 FM, "94.5 KHI") is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Newark, Maryland, United States and serves the Delmarva Peninsula. The station is owned by The Voice Radio Network and broadcasts a classic hits format.

website: https://949jackfm.com/

Shore Drive-In (Q42688817)
item type: movie theater / drive-in theater

Street address: 11826 Ocean Gateway, Ocean City, MD 21842 (from Wikidata)

Pocomoke Drive-In (Q42688862)
item type: movie theater / drive-in theater / destroyed building or structure

Street address: 830 Ocean Highway, Pocomoke City, MD 21851 (from Wikidata)

Berlin Branch (Q69777097)
item type: public library / library branch

Street address: 220 N. Main St., Berlin, MD 21811 (from Wikidata)

Ocean City Branch (Q69777098)
item type: public library / library branch

Street address: 10003 Coastal Highway, Ocean City, MD 21842 (from Wikidata)

Snow Hill Branch (Q69777116)
item type: public library / library branch

Street address: 307 N. Washington St, Snow Hill, MD 21863 (from Wikidata)

New Theatre (Q42690762)
item type: movie theater

Street address: N. Main Street, Berlin, MD 21811 (from Wikidata)

Fox Sun & Surf 8 Cinema (Q42691961)
item type: movie theater

Street address: 14301 Coastal Highway, Ocean City, MD 21842 (from Wikidata)

website: http://www.foxshowtimes.com

Showell Theatre (Q42691976)
item type: movie theater

Street address: N. Division Street & N. Baltimore Avenue, Ocean City, MD 21842 (from Wikidata)

Outten Theatre (Q42692461)
item type: movie theater

Street address: 55 Washington Street, Snow Hill, MD 21863 (from Wikidata)