Editing Pocomoke City, Maryland (section)

==History==
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Beginning in the late seventeenth century, a small settlement called '''Stevens Landing''' (sometimes '''Stevens Ferry''') grew at the ferry landing on the south bank of the [[Pocomoke River]]. The town was incorporated as '''Newtown''' (or '''New Town''') in 1865, but was reincorporated in 1878 as Pocomoke City, after the American Indian name of the river, meaning "black water."<ref name="history">{{Cite web |title=Welcome Message {{!}} Pocomoke City, Maryland |url=https://www.cityofpocomoke.com/news/welcome-message |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=www.cityofpocomoke.com |archive-date=December 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211223185548/http://cityofpocomoke.com/news/welcome-message |url-status=live }}</ref>

Stevens Landing, and then Newtown, remained a modest river crossing until the construction through the town in the 1880s of the trunk railroad line along the [[Delmarva Peninsula]] from [[Wilmington, Delaware]], to [[Cape Charles, Virginia|Cape Charles]] on the [[Eastern Shore of Virginia]]. The line eventually became part of the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]]. In addition to agriculture, industry such as [[sawmill|lumber milling]] and [[shipbuilding]] and, in the twentieth century, factories making barrels and baskets for [[Truck farming|truck crops]], and the canning of those crops, aided the town's growth.

In 1922, the business district of Pocomoke City was destroyed in a large fire; on one side of town this continued up to the church on third Street, known as St. Mary's Episcopal Church, but the downtown was quickly rebuilt. While [[truck farming]] declined during the 1900s, the [[Chicken#Chickens in agriculture|poultry industry]] rose to take its place. NASA, the U.S. Navy, and the Coast Guard helped with continued growth by bringing jobs to the area.<ref name="history"/>

Pocomoke City was named an All-America City by the [[National Municipal League]], and for the years 1984–85, Pocomoke City was one of the nine Finalist Communities.