Chestertown Town, Kent County, Maryland (MD)

Chestertown Town

Kent County, Maryland

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Chestertown Town Hall is located at 118 North Cross Street, Chestertown, MD 21620.
Phone: 410‑778‑0500.

Neighborhoods

  • Blakefield
  • Byford Court
  • Byford Heights
  • Cacaway
  • Char Nor Manor
  • Chesapeake Landing
  • Chesmar
  • Chester Arms
  • Chester Harbor
  • Chester River Landing
  • Chestertown Historic District
  • Church Hill
  • College Heights
  • Country Club Estates
  • Country Living
  • Coventry Farms
  • Crestview
  • Double Creek
  • Double Creek Woods
  • Ducks Neck
  • Evergreen Manor
  • Fairgale
  • Fairlee
  • Foxley Manor
  • Georgetown
  • Great Oak
  • Great Oak Estates
  • Hambleton Creek View
  • Heather Heights
  • Hilltop
  • Kingstowne Manor
  • Langford Farm
  • Mile Tree Village
  • Oak Springs
  • Orchard Hill
  • Pear Tree Point
  • Pearl Creek Estates
  • Pondtown
  • Quaker Estates
  • Quaker Neck
  • Red Roof Village
  • Royston Shores
  • Scotts Point
  • Skipper Lands
  • Stanton Farm
  • Stepne Place
  • The Grove
  • The Village at Chestertown
  • Tolchester
  • Tolchester Estates
  • Tolchester Heights
  • Venaringham
  • Washington Park

Beginnings [1]

Chestertown's beginning dates from 1698 when the courthouse for Kent County was erected on the bank of the Chester River at the future site of the town. In 1706 streets were laid out for a town and in 1708 a small settlement, then known as New Town, was made a port of entry for Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne's counties of Maryland. New Town, however, failed to grow and the leading tobacco port on the Eastern Shore during first half of the 18th century was Oxford, located in Talbot County on the Tred Avon River. Founded in 1683, Oxford was for some time a close rival of Annapolis as the busiest port in the province.

Chestertown's growth as a major port began in 1730, when its owner, Simon Wilmer, resurveyed his land and laid out the existing grid plan of streets and house lots. From about 1750-1790 the town flourished as the chief tobacco and wheat shipping port of Maryland's Eastern Shore. During this period merchants and planters constructed fine Georgian brick town houses in the town. Many of these structures still stand.

  1. National Park Service, Chestertown Historic District, Chestertown, Maryland, 1969, The National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings, U.S.Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.

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