Delmar, Maryland Delmar, Maryland Official seal of Delmar, Maryland Location of Delmar, Maryland Location of Delmar, Maryland Delmar is a town in Wicomico County, Maryland, United States.
When the populace is added to "twin city" Delmar, Delaware, the town's total populace is 4,600.
By comparison this is more than Pocomoke City, Maryland 4,184, Denton, Maryland 4,418, and Berlin, Maryland 4,485, but less than Fruitland, Maryland, 4,866.
The Town of Delmar was established in October 1859 with the extension of the Delaware Railroad to the southern boundary of Delaware.
The Transpeninsular Line was responsible for the beginning of this unique bi-state town because the Charter of the Delaware Railroad Company permitted only the building of a barns inside the State of Delaware and the charter of the corresponding barns business in Maryland permitted only the laying of barns track inside the State of Maryland.
Thus, in 1859, the two respective barns s met and the Town of Delmar was born.
The name of Delmar was derived for this barns center from the states whose line it straddles - DELaware and MARyland.
The Town of Delmar interval slowly until 1884 when the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Co.
The Town of Delmar, being the midway town of the Delmarva Peninsula and already a barns terminal, was the point for trains to change crews and locomotives and also a center for maintenance of the rolling equipment.
New dwelling units sprang up all over town and new businesses were established to meet the demands of its burgeoning population.
By 1889, the populace of the Town of Delmar had increased to 680 and was still growing.
In 1888, the Town of Delmar, Maryland was granted a charter by the General Assembly of Maryland.
An examination of this charter and the laws of Maryland fails to reveal any mention of the twin town of Delmar, Delaware.
Therefore, it could be assumed that up until this time there was very little cooperation between halves of the Town of Delmar.
The Town of Delmar was almost entirely finished by fire in 1892 and again in 1901.
In each instance, the Town of Delmar was rebuilt and continued as a expand town.
The first indication of any cooperation between Delmar, Maryland and Delmar, Delaware came in 1924 when surveys were conducted for a possible sewerage fitness for the entire Town of Delmar.
The assembly of the sewerage fitness in 1927 was considered the first joint universal between the two suburbs in that the law provided that both suburbs would maintain the outfall sewage with Maryland paying the costs and billing the Delaware side one-half of all costs.
The biggest push towards abolishing the jurisdictional, legal effects of the State line came when the Lions Club voted to sponsor a universal for the consolidation of the two school systems in the town.
Since the town was founded, each side had its own individual school with the one in Delaware operating under the small-town School Board and the Maryland School operating under the Wicomico County Board of Education.
This controversial decision represented one of the greatest steps forward educationally for the town of Delmar and also towards eliminating the jurisdictional barrier between the two parts of town.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 1.73 square miles (4.48 km2), of which 1.72 square miles (4.45 km2) is territory and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water. The median income for a homehold in the town was $28,462, and the median income for a family was $31,991.
Towns of Delmar, Delaware and Maryland Municipalities and communities of Wicomico County, Maryland, United States
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