(8) “Wighcocomico”

5 June 1608

Pocomoke City, MD

*The cross marker is near the old 1920 Pocomoke City Bridge (also called the Market Street Bridge) which crosses the Pocomoke River.*

*Pocomoke City is quaint and scenic, the marker easy to access.*

*Daniel Hall of the Delmarva Discovery Center helped Ed install the marker.*

*The Delmarva Discovery Center in Pocomoke, Maryland. The marker is on the museum’s ground in the park across the street.*

*The Pocomoke River from the Market Street Bridge.*

Photo of Daniel Hall, Ed Haile; Other photos: Connie Lapallo

About

On their first voyage up the Bay, the shallop crew, finding themselves short of drinking water, put in to the Wighcocomico (Pocomoke) River. At the village of that name “the people at first with great fury seemed to assault us, yet at last with songs and daunces and much mirth became very tractable.” The local spring at Cedar Hall being inadequate, they rowed upstream on the flood tide into the freshes and filled their “barricoes with fresh drinking water.”

Siting

Siting is at a point where the river’s water becomes potable despite high tide.

Visit

Public land, Delmarva Discovery Center.

Access is by land with adjacent parking and by tidal water with dockage.

GPS Coordinates

38.0767, -75.5706

N38°04’36”

xW75°34’14”