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To inform you Denton, MD, here is a brief history you can read that will give you a glimpse into the past of the community.

A Brief History of Denton, Maryland

Denton, seat of Caroline County, is on the Choptank River and generally near the geographic center of the county and the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Caroline County was created by an act of the Maryland legislature in 1773, the result of a petition from some inhabitants from Queen Anne's and Dorchester counties to erect a new county for their "ease and convenience". The county seat was to be located on the Choptank River on four acres of ground in an area known as "Pig Point" which was part of a tract of land called "Mount Andrew". The name of the ground designated for public use was to be Edentown. At that time, the land for the proposed courthouse and prison, as well as all of the land comprising what is now downtown Denton, was owned by the Honorable Edward Lloyd of "Wye House" in Talbot County, a member of one of the most distinguished families of colonial Maryland.

The Caroline County Court first met in March of 1774 at Melvill's Warehouse which was located north of Pig Point on the Choptank River - temporary quarters which had to suffice for conducting the administrative and judicial business of the county at that time (and for many years thereafter). Plans for the construction of a permanent courthouse at Pig Point were begun during that first court session, but the impending conflict with Great Britain caused the postponement of construction of the public buildings at Edentown.

In 1778, two tracts out of "Mount Andrew" near Pig Point were sold to John Lucas and Michael Lucas and on October 18, 1781, both owners offered sub-divided one acre lots for sale on what is now downtown Market Street, and on the east side of Third Street north to the river. Thus began the settlement of what was to develop into the village and town of Denton.

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