Pittsville Passenger Station

This train station, built in 1900, was once part of the Baltimore, Chesapeake, & Atlantic Railroad, which had bought the Wicomico & Pocomoke Railroad Company in 1894. Originally running from Salisbury to Berlin, the Wicomico & Pocomoke Line charter was first granted in 1848 and was completed in 1868. In 1874 the line was extended south to Snow Hill. This rail line played an important part in the formation of the railway town of Derrickson’s Crossroads, which became Pittsville, named after the president of the company Dr. H. R. Pitts. In the 1980s, the passenger station was moved to Maple Street and restored where it currently sits today.