The Worcester House

Thanks to the Pocomoke Public Eye reader who supplied information today on a question posted previously about The Worcester House. 

Not a comment or an opinion but a question that some long time resident of Pocomoke may know. Just over the MD line in VA not far down from the Royal Farms (same side of highway) is an antique store. I think it is called the Worcester House. It's a low, long building. One one end is a large walk in fireplace. Does anyone know when this building was built and what was it's original purpose?  Remove content | Delete | Spam	Anonymous	on 9/17/15

Thelma & Butch Arion, owners of The Worcester House Antiques; acquired the property in the early 1960's. Soon after, they built the center section of the "long, Bucks County Gold" building and that became their original shop in New Church, Virginia. In 1972, they expanded with the current section along with a large walk-in fireplace... a replica in the Williamsburg style. The 12" to 18" boards that surround the fireplace were from an old barn. That's right, it has been an antique shop for almost 53 years. Why the name the Worcester House Antiques? Originally, their shop and house was situated in Worcester County between Pocomoke & Snow Hill. The State of Maryland acquired their shop, house & land to make way for Route 113 North road. So, the name just stuck and there was really no reason to rename the business. The Arions divorced and Thelma Olsen Arion has been the sole proprietor of the shop and acreage. The antique market has changed over the years but she still carries on. Remove content | Delete | Spam	Anonymous	on 10/9/15

TIME MACHINE ... This Sunday's Preview

1921.. Automobile Club reports status of Eastern Shore roads; 1955.. Push is on to have a Pocomoke team back in the Central Shore Baseball League; 1944.. 1,000 German POW's end work strike at Westover interment camp; 1896.. Typhoid Fever claims life of a prominent young Worcester County physician; 1888.. Railroad offers Eastern Shore of Virginia residents reduced rates for excursions to Salisbury; 1939.. America's first sweetened cereal makes its debut.   

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TIME MACHINE ... Pocomoke City in 1895.

"Friendliest Town On The Eastern Shore."  Our tradition runs deep.  Excerpt from a letter to the editor from a visitor to Newtown, (former name of Pocomoke City) published in the Baltimore Sun, April 28,1847.

This place (Newtown) is a pretty snug little village, containing about 500 clever and hospitable inhabitants; it has good wide streets, quite clear of that "eye sore," known mostly over the Peninsula by the name of "deep sand"; the houses, though built of frame, are generally built substantially and with some discretion and taste; there are two neat, new, and quite handsome frame churches in it; as for the merchants of the place, suffice it to state that they are very clever and hospitable.  F. Mezick, Esq., the landlord with whom I stopped, and his very obliging and jolly assistant, are richly deserving of a passing notice, for the good treatment and the extension of the many civilities to "the stranger."


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September, 1895
The Reidsville Review, (Reidsville, North Carolina)

Footnote: The given population figure of 3,000 sounds high for 1895.  Pocomoke City's 1910 population was listed at 2,309 according to the U.S. Census report from that year. Wonder if Mr. Hopkins had a hand in crafting this article to the benefit of his real estate dealings in Pocomoke City? -tk


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