The Pocomoke Public Eye: Time←← Machine: 100 years ago this week in Pocomoke City's newspaper; plus 1938.. Pocomoke new firehouse.

(Coffman-Fisher was a staple of the Pocomoke business community for more than three decades at the southwest corner of Market and Second Streets. Children of the era will recall their annual Christmas Toyland located above the second-floor balcony.)

(Another ad in this edition offered free parking by merchants in Salisbury.)

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The Route: The causeway carried the historic north-south road connecting Maryland and Virginia (which became US Route 13 / Market Street).

The Crossing: It stretched through the wet Somerset County lowlands on the western bank, rolling directly into the downtown commercial district of Worcester County as it crossed the river.