Queen Anne, Maryland Population, Hospitals, Airports, and Schools

In the 1850s, the area that is now the town of Queen Anne, was part of a 225-acre farm owned by Jacob Morgan. Initially, the town nucleus was nothing but a 1½-story dwelling, but in 1864 Mr. Morgan built a more substantial place—it was known locally as “the mansion house,” and the locale was known as Morgansville.

At that time, the Pennsylvania Railroad had been laid as far south as Greensboro and, a little later, to Ridgely and Hillsboro and thence across Tuckahoe Creek. In 1878, the railroad purchased a site for a station across the creek in Queen Anne’s County, and, quite logically, named it Queen Anne when the station was finally put into service about 1882.

That was the genesis of the town known today as Queen Anne. It grew quickly, becoming an important commercial center for the Maryland, Delaware and Virginia Railroad. In those days, Tuckahoe Creek that winds lazily through Queen Anne on its way to the Choptank River, was used by scows to haul grain from down river to the railroad.

Queen Anne today is a pleasant town of residences and local rural commerce. It is situated in two counties (Queen Anne’s and Talbot) and borders on Caroline County.