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Queen Anne's County, Maryland

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40historic places

—earliest paper

1707formed

49,874pop. 2020

31cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 40 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972. Most listings are in or near Centreville, Stevensville, Church Hill.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

20 of 40 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

40 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bachelor's Hope	Centreville	Building	1984
Bishopton	Church Hill	Building	1985
Bloomingdale	Queenstown	Building	1972
Bowlingly	Queenstown	Building	1972
Captain's Houses	Centreville	Building	1980
Centreville Armory	Centreville	Building	1985
Centreville Historic District	Centreville	District	2004
Chester Hall	Chestertown	Building	1980
Christ Church	Stevensville	Building	1979
Churchill Threatre-Community Building	Church Hill	Building	2000
Collins, Jackson, House	Centreville	Building	2000
Content	Centreville	Building	1986
Cray House	Stevensville	Building	1983
Dudley's Chapel	Sudlersville	Building	1979
Embert, John, Farm	Millington	Building	1980
Female Seminary	Centreville	Building	2003
Friendship	Stevensville	Building	1994
Hawkins Pharsalia	Ruthsburg	Building	1984
Keating House	Centreville	Building	1999
Kennersley	Church Hill	Building	1983
Lansdowne	Centreville	Building	1984
Legg's Dependence	Stevensville	Building	2003
Lexon	Centreville	Building	1990
MYSTERY (log canoe)	Kingstown	Structure	1985
Mattapax	Stevensville	Building	1998
Ozmon, Capt. John H., Store	Centreville	Building	1985
Readbourne	Centreville	Building	1973
Reed's Creek Farm	Centreville	Building	1975
Salem School	Church Hill	Building	2025
St. Andrew's Episcopal Chapel	Sudlersville	Building	1984
St. Luke's Church	Church Hill	Building	1977
St. Peter's Church	Queenstown	Building	1980
Starr Church	Centreville	Building	2024
Stevensville Bank	Stevensville	Building	1985
Stevensville Historic District	Stevensville	District	1986
Stratton	Centreville	Building	2003
Thomas House	Ruthsburg	Building	1976
Wilton	Wye Mills	Building	1977
Wye Hall	Queenstown	Building	2015
Wye Mill	Wye Mills	Building	1985

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Queen Annes was formed in 1707 (1707-05-01) from Dorchester, Kent, Talbot.

QUEEN ANNES created from DORCHESTER, KENT, and TALBOT.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Queen Anne's County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1790	1800	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
15,463	14,857	14,952	12,633	15,961	19,257	18,364	16,001	14,476	14,579	16,569	25,508	40,563	49,874

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

31 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 31 of 31 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Batts Neck Cemetery	None	None
Bethel Church Cemetery	39.20933	-75.92155
Bridgetown Cemetery	39.0335	-75.88566
Bryan Methodist Church Cemetery	38.96262	-76.18369
Busic Cemetery	39.13434	-75.82015
Chesterfield Cemetery	39.04316	-76.07105
Christ Lutheran Church Cemetery	38.98077	-76.3137
Crumpton Cemetery	39.2331	-75.91248
Double Creek Cemetery	39.21038	-75.92772
Ezion Methodist Episcopal Cemetery	38.93684	-76.35155
Goldsboro Cemetery	39.15263	-75.86686
Gouldtown Cemetery	39.02483	-76.13772
Grasonville Cemetery	38.9615	-76.18551
Grasonville Cemetery	38.9595	-76.1932
Holdens Chapel Cemetery	39.21302	-75.81008
John Wesley Church Cemetery	38.95802	-76.12469
Kingsley Church Cemetery	38.96708	-76.2774
Mount Olive Cemetery	39.07338	-75.93342
Mount Pleasant Methodist Cemetery	39.22224	-75.91327
Mount Zion Cemetery	39.0965	-76.07327
Perrys Corner Cemetery	38.93549	-76.18697
Robinson Cemetery	None	None
Rochester Cemetery	39.10677	-75.85555
Rochester Memorial Garden	39.09779	-75.88656
Saint Peters Cemetery	38.97874	-76.13409
Stevensville Cemetery	38.9765	-76.30523
Sudlersville Cemetery	39.18899	-75.84938
Thomas Cemetery	39.20999	-75.9873
Union Wesley Methodist Church Cemetery	38.9737	-76.28599
Wesley Cemetery	38.99094	-76.3069
Wye of Carmichael Cemetery	38.94139	-76.1333

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Catlin	39.20511	-76.00383

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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