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Meanwhile, enjoy a brief history of Chestertown, MD

.A Brief History of Chestertown, Maryland

In 1774 Chestertown was a small urban center that had become active in the West Indies wheat trade earlier in the eighteenth century. Local ships carried grain products to Ireland, Spain, and Portugal, and later to the wine islands of Madeira, Cape Verde, and the Azores, where grain was traded for wine or salt.  As an official port of entry for British goods and a stop on the ferry and stage lines between Annapolis and Philadelphia, Chestertown became by mid-century the largest and most important town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, with a population of about thirteen hundred.  It was during this period, sometimes referred to as the "Golden Age," that affluent merchants and shipowners began to erect impressive brick buildings along the waterfront, a number of which still stand today.

Chestertown can trace its beginning to the early eighteenth century when the introduction of wheat cultivation in Kent County "spurred the growth of a market town on the Chester River."  The riverside became a logical location for a new town, as authorized by the 1706 Act for the Advancement of Trade and Erecting Ports and Towns in the Province of Maryland.  Designated one of Maryland's six official ports and the new county seat, the town was surveyed in 1706/1707 by Simon Wilmer II (1686-1737) on one hundred acres of his land grant, "Stepney", New Town, as it was known until about 1730, was laid out on a grid plan bounded by the Chester River and two minor streams (see Fig. 1). One hundred residential and commercial lots extended northwest from the river, while lots in the center of town were reserved for a courthouse, church, marketplace, and cemetery..

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