Towne Fields
This site, two and a
half miles west, was the first seat of
local government on the Eastern Shore.
Francis Bolton preached there in 1623,
and the first church was built before
1632. The oldest continuous county records
in the English Colonies began there in 1632.
The first courthouse (built for that purpose)
on the Eastern Shore was erected in 1664 and
used until Court moved to the Eastville
area in 1677.
Marker is on Charles M Lankford Jr. Memorial Highway (U.S. 13), on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
