Time←←Machine: 100 years ago this week iin Pocomoke City's newspaper; 1938.

 

(According to AI, Tangier Beach was a segregated beach on Tangier Sound at Dames Quarter and closed in the 1920's. The derelict 16-acre property was sold to Dames Quarter native Loraine Henry and her husband George for $2,500 in 1951. They reopened the area as Henry's Beach in 1952, one of the first integrated beaches on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.  The site, in an area of severe coastal erosion, was sold in 1991 and is currently private property.)

  

(Wonder how 40-cents a ticket could finance a show like this?)

                                                                         

*September 1938

(The Peninsula Building was located at the northeast corner of Market and Front Streets, across from what is now the Delmarva Discovery Museum.)

Worcester Democrat

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Time←←Machine: 100 years ago this week in Pocomoke City's newspaper; 1901, 2010.

 

(NOTE: According to AI the original Pocomoke Fair ran from 1901 to 1930 and then fell victim to the economic hardships of The Great Depression. It returned to the Pocomoke Fairgrounds in 1991.)

                                                                          

*March 1901

(Peninsula Enterprise)

*February 2010

(Salisbury Daily Times)

(Election winners were Robert L. Hawkins and Diane Downing.)

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Time←←Machine: 100 years ago this week in Pocomoke City's newspaper; 1957.

Note this information from AI regarding the item that follows:

The geographic area historically referred to as the Stevens property or Hearn's Hill is the original 17th-century settlement site that laid the foundation for modern Pocomoke City, Maryland. The Exact Historical Location of The property was located on the south bank of the Pocomoke River in Worcester County. Centered around what is today the downtown waterfront district of Pocomoke City, this land sat directly where the historic Stevens Ferry crossing and original trading post were established.

*December 1957..

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(Salisbury Times)

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