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Salisbury, Maryland
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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A town and the county-seat of Wicomico county, Maryland, U.S.A., on the Wicomico river, about 23 m. from its mouth. Pop. (r90o) 4277, including 1006 negroes; (1910) 6690. It is served by the Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic (which has shops here), and the New York, Philadelphia && Norfolk railways, and by steamers on the Wicomico river, which has a channel 9 ft. deep; Salisbury is the head of navigation. Grain, vegetables and lumber are shipped along the coast. Salisbury was founded in 1732, organized as a town in 1812, and incorporated in 1854 and again in 1888.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Salisbury, Maryland'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/s/salisbury-maryland.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Salisbury, Maryland'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/s/salisbury-maryland.html. 1910.
