Centreville

History

Centreville's name was derived from the relocation of the county seat in 1782 from Queenstown to a more central part of the county. Saint Paul's Parish was established on the site that would later become known as Centreville, Maryland. It was almost 100 years later, in 1782, that the Maryland State Assembly passed an Act to relocate both the courthouse and all government functions of the county to Centreville from Queenstown, making Centreville the new county seat. However, it took a decade for the appropriate land to be acquired and for the change to take place. A plantation called Chesterfield was chosen as the land to use for the new town which would hold the county's courthouse. Once the town and court house were completed, on the first of June 1796, the county court, "ordered [the courthouse] to be ‘taken, held and deemed to be the proper Court House of Queen Anne's County’". Centreville became an incorporated town in 1794, two years after the courthouse was completed. At the same time, the town laid out, including four streets that remain today: MD 213, S. Liberty St., N. Commerce St., Water St. (MD 304). On August 1, 1871, Centreville became a railroad town when the Queen Anne's and Kent Railroad reached it making it the end of its line that extended to Townsend, Delaware on the other end. At the time the plan was to extend the railroad to Queenstown, Maryland but for technical and political reasons that never happened. Centreville eventually got a rail connection to Queenstown when the Queen Anne's Railroad built a branch between the two but, despite only being a half mile apart, the two railroad lines never connected. In the 1950s the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway, which controlled the old Queen Anne Railroad line, abandoned the line and…

Geography

Centreville is located at (39.046206, −76.064345). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land.

Race & ethnicity

Largest nearby schools

• Queen Anne's County High School
  High · Centreville · 1,209 students · 13.7:1 ratio
• Centreville Elementary School
  Elementary · Centreville · 560 students · 16.5:1 ratio
• Centreville Middle School
  Middle · Centreville · 481 students · 13.4:1 ratio
• Kennard Elementary School
  Elementary · Centreville · 455 students · 14.7:1 ratio
• Grasonville Elementary School
  Elementary · Grasonville · 454 students · 15.1:1 ratio
• Church Hill Elementary School
  Elementary · Church Hill · 256 students · 12.8:1 ratio