December 4th
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Shipping Alert scams
Worcester County Sheriff's Office
ATTENTION: Beware of Fake Shipping Alerts!!!
Package Scam Alert!! Cybercriminals are sending messages claiming lost or late packages via UPS, FedEx and USPS. Be cautious!
Signs of a Scam:
Unexpected delivery alerts
Urgent claims of lost items
Look for bad grammar and bad spelling
Clickbait links for "resolving" issues
Look at the sender's address and verify it matches the organization
Protect Yourself:
Verify tracking numbers on official websites
Contact the delivery service directly for confirmation
Avoid clicking on suspicious links
Pocomoke Christmas Parade photos
View Pocomoke Christmas Parade photos:
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Photos courtesy of Wulfhause Productions
Monday, November 27, 2023
Winning lottery tickets sold in Pocomoke and Salisbury
A lottery ticket sold in Pocomoke last week paid $10,000 to the purchaser. The Snow Globe 7s ticket was purchased at the Pocomoke Walmart.
In Salisbury a winning $50,000 Cash game ticket and a $10,000 Ultimate Cash ticket were purchased.
Rec & Parks favors more involvement in the Worcester County Fair
(Maryland Coast Dispatch)
“I do feel we could grow this event provided we have the right support and partnerships in place,” said Kelly Rados, the county’s director of recreation and parks.
(View news article:)
Phone scams reminder-
We would like to remind everyone that the SCSO will never ask you to provide your personal information over the phone. We will never request that you purchase any type of gift cards and we do not use any form of app-based payment such as: CashApp or Venmo.
Please be vigilant and protect yourselves and your information during this holiday season. If you receive any calls that you are weary of, please reach out to us at (410) 651-9225. With the ability for Scammers to alter or "Spoof" their phone numbers, these scams are getting more difficult to detect. If something doesn't sound right, it probably isn't.
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Time Machine: 100 years ago in Pocomoke's newspaper; The Holiday Season: 1937, 1941, 1935, 1921.
(Weekly through December)
December, 1937
(Pocomoke students entertain)
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November, 1941
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November, 1935
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November, 1921
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(The Evergreen Tea Room had opened earlier in the year on Clarke Avenue in Pocomoke.)
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Above items from The Worcester Democrat
Saturday, November 25, 2023
When Pocomoke Was Young- A continuing weekly feature.
(Chapter flow:)
ITS ORIGIN AND TOWN LIMITS
TOWN LIMITS
GROWTH, CHANGE OF NAME, ETC.
MERCANTILE ASPECT
MANUFACTURING
TRADES ETC.
SHIPPING INTERESTS
EASTERN SHORE STEAMBOAT CO.
SHIP BUILDING ETC.
HOTELS, LIVERY STABLES, ETC.
PHYSICIANS
LAWYERS
POST OFFICE
PRINTING OFFICES
SOCIAL ASPECT, ETC.
MORAL ASPECT
TEMPERANCE CAUSE
SCHOOLS
CHURCHES
Note: In duplicating this material for publishing on The Pocomoke Public Eye we have made minor adjustments to correct some of the spelling, punctuation, etc. We believe the errors were not in Rev. Murray's original writing but occurred in the process of formatting the material to a digital format for viewing online.In writing a history of New Town, I have been no littleperplexed in gathering up evidence in regard to its origin. There is, however, one item of historical fact which gives some clue to it, namely: A certain Col William Stevens, who was, probably, staff officer to Lord Baltimore, estab- lished in 1670 what has since been called, for many years, Stevens'Ferry. A scrap of Col. Stevens' history may not be out of place here. He had a grant from Lord Baltimore to take up all the lands from the mouth of the Pocomoke River to Lewis- town, Delaware, and settle the same, which he did, with a colony of Welsh, Irish and English. He was one of Lord Baltimore's counsellors, was Judge of Somerset Court for twenty-two years, and departed this life the 23d day of December, in 1687, in the fifty -seventh year of his age. The reader will remember that, originally, Somerset County embraced all of Worcester County too. and the Court House stood on the rise of ground, on Edwin Townsend's farm, in Somerset County, at the junction of Cokes Bury and Snow Hill roads, leading to Dividing Creek Bridge. Indeed, the farm, from our earliest recol- lection, until recently, has been called Court House Farm, but now the name is becoming obsolete. Steven's Ferry reached from the Somerset side of Poco- moke River, adjoining the Phosphate Factory of Freeman, Lloyd, Mason and Dryden, to the foot of the Pocomoke Bridge, on the Worcester side. This Ferry was the center of business for this whole sec- tion of the country. The country on both sides of the river was, with some exceptions, a dense wilderness. The historical fact of Stevens' Ferry being erected in 1670 will serve as a nucleus with which to associate the history of New Town. All other evidence, which I have been able to obtain relative to the origin of the place is traditional. Tradition says : About the time or shortly after the erection of Stevens' Ferry a New England trader came up the Pocomoke River in his vessel, ladened with New England Rum and Cheese, and sought a landing at the Ferry, to sell his cargo, but the authorities drove him off, and he dropped his vessel down the river to the next knoll -on the Worcester side, which we used to call the Hill, but is now called the Public Square. Here he pitched his tent and traded with the sparse inhabitants, as they would come with their produce to trade for Rum and Cheese. The reader must conclude, of course, that the plank 'lent which he put up was the only house, or substitute for a house, in the neighborhood ; all around him were forest trees, between him and the river were mud flats and tuckahoes. Tradition goes on further to say: That about the year 16S3 or '54 the place was then called Meeting House Land- ing, in view of the saying that a Presbyterian House of. Worship was erected on the lot which was called, when I was a boy, the Sacher Lot, a nick name for Zachariah, as. the lot then belonged to one Zachariah Lambertson, but: now belonging to William J. S. Clarke, known of late: years as the Adreon Lot, at the foot of Willow St. "History states that about the year 1680, a petition was gotten up by Colonel William Stevens and others, and sent to the Presbytery of Laggan, Ireland, for a Minister- to come and settle in this part of the Colony to preach the- Gospel and look after the interests of the Presbyterian Church in these western wilds." " In 1682 the Rev. Francis Makemie, was sent to the- Colony, a man of celebrity, under whose supervision and: oversight, tradition says, this house was built. About the year 1700, the Tobacco Warehouse was built.. Tobacco having been made a legal tender by the House- of Burgesses, and a fixed price per pound established, for all debts, public and private, the warehouse became the place of deposit for the circulating medium. At this juncture of time, the name of the place was changed from Meeting House Landing to Warehouse Landing, or both may alternately have been used. Why the change was made, whether the log Church had been, abandoned or not, is all left to conjecture. I remember, well, the old Tobacco Warehouse, it stood about 120 years, and when it was torn down there was good material in it, and though I was but a child, yet I had many a romp and play in it, with my little associates, in hide-and-go-seek. It's large tobacco hogsheads, and and scales, and weights are still fresh in my memory. It stood on the hill, between the pump and the south-west corner of Smullen & Bro's. Store. From 1700 to the days of the Revolution, there is no evidence that I have been able to obtain, either historical or traditional, in regard to New Town. There are some few facts, however, which are within the writer's own knowledge, which may serve as reminiscences of that period, and fill up in some little degree the place of the lost history. I allude to some few old houses, which were probably coeval with the Old Tobacco Ware- house, one or two of which stood on the ground, now occupied by Smullen & Brother's Storehouse, one adjoining the ground now occupied by Twilly & Brother's Livery Stables, inhabited by an old lady by the name of Elizabeth Matthews. There were three or four more, only one of which I shall call the reader's attention to, which was a small red house, and stood on the south-west corner of Market and Second Streets. In this house a Revo- lutionary Soldier lived by the name of Daniel Spaulding. These houses served as landmarks, pointing to the period from 1700 to 1776, and show conclusively that they were once occupied by those who have long since passed away, and, so far as we have been able to ascertain, have left no tidings behind them. The reader is already aware that this place was called Warehouse Landing, and that name continued until 1780 or thereabouts, when it was changed to New Town. There is no record of the fact, why, or by whom the change was made. I remember about forty years ago, of having an interview with a man by the name of Reville, who said that he gave to this place the name of New Town. Be that as it may, there are some reflections presumptive of the fact. He was at the time of the interview eighty or ninety years old, so that at the time the place was named, he was twenty or twenty-five years old, admitting the fact that he was not a conspicuous man in the community, and that such changes generally take place by men of distinc- tion, yet it will be remembered that the inhabitants of the place were very few, and the surrounding country sparsely settled, so that there is a possibility that his statement is true, though I leave the reader to form his own con- clusions,
CONTINUES NEXT SATURDAY HERE AT THE POCOMOKE PUBLIC EYE.
Friday, November 24, 2023
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