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Although the Eastern Shore comprises a large part of Maryland's land area, it had a population of 456,815 as of the 2020 Census, representing about 7.4% of Maryland's total population. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] The most populous city in the region is Salisbury , and the most populous county is Cecil .
Map of the United States with Maryland highlighted. Maryland is a state located in the Southern United States. [1] As of the 2020 United States census, Maryland is the 18th-most populous state with 6,177,224 inhabitants and the ninth-smallest by land area, spanning 9,707.24 square miles (25,141.6 km 2) of land. [2]
The city's founder, Christopher Clark Hyatt (1799–1884), purchased his first parcel of land in the area in 1845. [7] Hyatt opened a store and began mail delivery, officially naming the nascent community "Hyattsville" in his 1859 application to become postmaster. In the years following the Civil War, Hyatt and other local landowners subdivided ...
Legislative attempts to break away the Eastern Shore counties of Maryland and join them with Delaware were made several times. In November 1776, delegates from the Eastern Shore attempted to insert a clause into the Maryland Declaration of Rights that would allow the shore counties to secede from Maryland, with the clause being defeated 30–17.
Talbot County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland.As of the 2020 census, the population was 37,526. [2] Its county seat is Easton. [3] The county was named for Lady Grace Talbot, the wife of Sir Robert Talbot, an Anglo-Irish statesman, and the sister of Lord Baltimore. [4]
Kent County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 census, its population was 19,198, [1] making it the least populous county in Maryland. Its county seat is Chestertown. [2] The county was named for the county of Kent in England. [3] The county is part of the Mid-Eastern Shore region of the state, and the oldest ...
Andersontown is a populated place on Maryland's Eastern Shore in Caroline County, Maryland, United States. [2] It is situated near the Delaware line, centered on the intersection of Andersontown Road and Maryland Route 404.
In Maryland the Tidewater area is the flooded river areas below the Fall Line. The Hampton Roads area of Virginia is considered to be a Tidewater region. Southern Maryland [ 4 ] and the Eastern Shore , parts of Delaware round out the northern part of the region on the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays.