Tour of the Historic Churches of the Dixon Tavern District No. 1 set for April 27

The Sudlersville Community Betterment Club is pleased to announce their upcoming Tour of the Historic Churches of the Dixon Tavern District No. 1 of Queen Anne’s County to be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 27 The tour begins at Calvary-Asbury United Methodist Church, located at 103 N. Church Street in Sudlersville, where maps and information will be distributed. Historical displays, light snacks and restrooms will also be available at this site.

You may wonder what is the Dixon Tavern District No. 1? In 1827, the Maryland State Legislature established the Dixon Tavern District as one of the four voting/taxing districts in Queen Anne’s County. It was basically the areas around present day Sudlersville, north to the Kent County line, east to the Delaware line, west to present day Route 290, and south to present day Ingleside. It was named after a once very lively crossroads that lay just about 1.5 miles south of Sudlersville. All that remains to us today of Dixon Tavern is a county road that bears that name.

What the tour entails is a 36-mile round trip self-driving tour of the churches that were in existence in the Dixon Tavern District prior to the year 1900, that still are standing today. There are 11 of them and eight are still in use as churches today. At this writing, all but three of the sites will be open for viewing by the public, the others by exterior viewing only.

The Sudlersville Community Betterment Club is a non-profit organization founded in 1916 that is made up of a small group of community members with purpose of collecting, preserving and maintaining the history of Sudlersville and the surrounding community. We serve with a sense of pride in our community’s past, present and future. Club projects include maintaining the Sudlersville Train Station, the Jimmie Foxx Memorial statue, and we help memorialize our veterans buried at the Sudlersville Cemetery on significant holidays. The Train Station is part of the Queen Anne’s County Historic Sites Consortium and is open May-Dec on the first Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. where we showcase various displays of historic and community interest.

Find us on Facebook at Sudlersville Community Betterment Club. Or on the web at sudlesvillemuseum.org. You may email us at Sudlersvillemusem@gmail.com.