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    42; -76.08 Dorchester County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. At the 2020 census, the population was 32,531. Its county seat is Cambridge...
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    Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 13,096 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Dorchester County and the county's...
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  • Dorchester County is the name of two counties in the United States: Dorchester County, Maryland Dorchester County, South Carolina This disambiguation...
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  • Governor of Maryland and member of the United States Senate. He was born at his family's estate (Weston), located near Vienna in Dorchester County. John Henry...
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    was a marshy, rapidly eroding island in the Chesapeake Bay, in Dorchester County, Maryland, west of Salisbury. The island was once inhabited by watermen...
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    East New Market is a town located in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 400 at the 2010 census. The ZIP code is 21631. East...
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    Church Creek is a town in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States, part of the state's Eastern Shore. The population was 125 at the 2010 census. Church...
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  • Whitehall is an unincorporated community in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. Whitehall is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of Cambridge. U.S. Geological...
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    Vienna is a town in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 271 at the 2010 census. Prior to European colonization, a Nanticoke...
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    Dorchester County - Named for the Earl of Dorset, a family friend of the Calverts (the founding family of the Maryland colony). Dorchester is the County Town...
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    Hurlock is a town in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 2,092 at the 2010 census. The town was named after John M. Hurlock...
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    Harriet Tubman's family (category People from Dorchester County, Maryland)
    Brodess Farm Around 1785 or 1787, Benjamin Ross was born in Dorchester County, Maryland, the property of wealthy landowner Anthony Thompson, who married...
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    town in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 45 at the 2020 census, making it the second smallest town in Maryland. Rehoboth...
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    Glasgow is a historic home located at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland. It is a Federal style, gable-front, 2+1⁄2-story brick house built about...
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    Samuel Green (freedman) (category People from Dorchester County, Maryland)
    mother of Harriet Tubman. Green was an enslaved field hand in Dorchester County, Maryland. When his enslaver, Henry Nicholas, died in 1832, a provision...
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    Hoopers Island is a chain of islands in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. Upper Hoopers Island and Lower Hoopers Island are surrounded by water...
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    Galestown is a town in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 138 at the 2010 census. Galestown is located at 38°34′0″N 75°42′56″W...
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  • Thumbnail for Algonquin, Maryland
    Algonquin is a census-designated place (CDP) in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,241 at the 2010 census. The community...
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    Henry Lloyd (governor) (category People from Dorchester County, Maryland)
    governor of Maryland in the United States from 1885 to 1888. He was born in 1852 in Dorchester County, Maryland and died in 1920 in Cambridge, Maryland. He was...
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    Garrett County (PDF). Prince George's County (PDF). Anne Arundel County (PDF). Queen Anne's County (PDF). Talbot County (PDF). Dorchester County (PDF)....
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    Transpeninsular Line (category Geography of Dorchester County, Maryland)
    were engaged to survey the north-south border between Maryland and the three southern counties of Pennsylvania, which became Delaware 13 years later)...
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  • Bloodsworth Island (category Landforms of Dorchester County, Maryland)
    Island is an island in the Chesapeake Bay. It lies in southern Dorchester County, Maryland. Historic research suggests that sites discovered in an archaeological...
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    Secretary is a town in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 535 at the 2010 census. Lord Baltimore named the town after his...
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  • South Carolina Dorchester, Texas Dorchester, Wise County, Virginia Dorchester, Wisconsin Dorchester County, Maryland Dorchester County, South Carolina...
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  • Thumbnail for Brookview, Maryland
    Brookview is a town in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 48 at the 2020 census. Brookview was incorporated in 1953. Brookview...
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    unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 204 at the 2010 census. In...
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    from Maryland escaped their slaveholders on October 24, 1857. They were a group of two dozen enslaved men, women, and children who fled from Dorchester County...
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    is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States, in the state's Eastern Shore region. The population...
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    USS Dorchester (APB-46), was a Benewah-class barracks ship. Her hull classification symbol was initially to be LST-1112. She was first redesignated a General...
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    district of Cambridge, in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. Steve Nuwer is currently the Airport Manager. Cambridge–Dorchester Regional Airport covers...
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