Old Somerset geography
What Is Mattapony?
Long before modern county lines, Mattapony Hundred was an important geographic name in the part of Old Somerset that became southern Worcester County.
Worcester County local history
Places and Communities
Explore Worcester County's towns, villages, neighborhoods, waterways, barrier islands, old place names, and communities that have changed or disappeared.
Finding Worcester County's places
Local place names can lead to records, maps, churches, cemeteries, roads, land tracts, and neighboring families. Some names described large colonial districts, while others belonged to small settlements or island communities that no longer appear on modern maps.
This collection brings those places into focus and provides a permanent home for additional Worcester County community histories as they are added.
Current articles
Barrier-island history
Assateague Island: A Historical Overview
Follow Assateague through early land claims, livestock pasturage, shifting inlets, the Life-Saving Service, and the island communities that once stood along Worcester County's Atlantic shore.
Researching a Worcester County place?
Use the 1877 Atlas,
historic maps, and
county-boundary history
alongside these articles.