The area's heritage
of farming and fishing is carried on from ancestors who in the
1660's began settling the area which is now Wicomico County. They
cultivated the land, worked the waters, built the communities and
passed on to their children a way of life where work is intertwined
with the pleasures of the seashore, fishing, boating and wildlife.
The City of
Salisbury, at the headwaters of the Wicomico River, was
chartered in 1732. As its potential as a port and regional
distribution center was recognized and schools, churches and
cultural institutions were established, Salisbury quickly became
the dominant city on the peninsula. With the creation in 1867 of
Wicomico County from portions of Somerset and Worcester
counties, Salisbury was named the county seat.
Today Wicomico
County holds onto its rural roots while embracing the future.
The area is a center of high technology industry, top quality
medical care, and world class institutions of higher learning.
Short facts about Salisbury and Wicomico County
- County seat of Wicomico County.
- Located at the crossing of U.S. Highway 13 (connecting New York and New Jersey to Norfolk and points south) and U.S. Highway 50 (the popular tourist route to Ocean City, Maryland).
- Commercial and Government center for Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore (Wicomico, Worcester, Somerset and Dorchester Counties), Sussex County, Delaware, and Virginia's Eastern Shore.
- We have 16 hotel/motels with over a thousand rooms and one historic bed and breakfast.
- The area offers over 60 restaurants and 20 shopping centers.
- Recreation facilities abound here with 58 parks, 34 nature trails, 4 golf courses, 80 tennis courts, 76 ball fields, and 44 basketball courts
- As a Chesapeake Bay maritime community, we boast the second largest water port in Maryland plus 14 boat ramps and 6 marinas with over 400 boat slips.
- The Newtown and Camden historic districts contain hundreds of Victorian-style homes.
- The Salisbury Zoological Park is located along side the South branch of the Wicomico River, features animals of North and South America, and charges no admission fees
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We are home to Maryland's two fastest growing institutions of higher learning, Salisbury University and Wor-Wic Community College.
