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Moving - Queenstown, Maryland
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We’ve included here a brief history of
Queenstown, MD.
A Brief History of Queenstown, Maryland
Entering Queenstown’s Courthouse is like
stepping through a portal in time. Much of your surroundings
are original, such as the horizontal oak wall sheathing and
some of the weatherboarding on the end walls. The flooring,
originally a typical earth floor, was later updated to wood.
The frame structure dates to 1708 and the brick section was
added between 1820 and 1840, well after the 1782 transfer of
the county seat to Centreville.
It was at this court in 1765 that William
Paca was admitted to practice law in Queen Anne’s County. It
was also here in 1718 that a whipping post was erected and
Katharine Langton was given 20 lashes, and others were
confined to the stocks, branded, or faced the hangman’s
noose at nearby Gallows Field, which had been located just
south of the courthouse.
When the county seat was moved to
Centreville in 1782, the courthouse was used for various
purposes. The town bought the property in 1977 and the
restoration of the colonial courthouse was completed in the
late 1970s.

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