Treasures From The Past

Teackle Mansion in Princess Anne is an outstanding example of neoclassic architecture built between 1802 and 1819, with many unique architectural features, a collection of 19th century furnishings, and one of the finest examples of symmetry in Maryland; it was the home of prominent merchant and statesman Littleton Dennis Teackle near the headwaters of the Manokin River. Pocomoke City, settled in the late 1690s, was known as Steven's Ferry, Warehouse Landing, Meeting House Landing, and Newtown before adopting its present name in 1878, and along the Pocomoke River it became a vital sail and steamship building center using native yellow pine, oak cedar, and cypress to build river and bay vessels. Snow Hill, named for a suburb in London, was settled in the 1670s as a port for ocean-going vessels, developed farming alongside its seaport, became the Worcester County seat in 1742, and saw schooners give way to steamboats and then the railroad; more than 100 homes there predate 1875 and show Victorian and colonial architecture. Princess Anne was created by an act of Maryland's General Assembly in 1733, named for King George II's daughter Anne, stands at what was generally called the wading place of the Manokin River, and is distinguished by many Federal and Victorian style houses.

Crisfield, Maryland · United States