Crisfield

Crisfield is a city in Somerset County, Maryland, United States, situated on the Tangier Sound, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. The populace was 2,726 at the 2010 evaluation. It is incorporated into the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. Crisfield has the qualification of being the southernmost joined city in Maryland. The site of the present Crisfield was at first a little angling town called Annemessex Neck.

Amid European colonization, it was renamed Somers Cove, after Benjamin Summers. At the point when the business potential for fish was found, John W. Crisfield chose to convey the Pennsylvania Railroad to Crisfield, and the peaceful angling town developed. Crisfield is currently known as the "Fish Capital of the World". Crisfield started to slip into decrease alongside the declining strength of the Chesapeake Bay, inciting a "key rejuvenation plan" to address the city's future needs.

At present, Crisfield is to a great extent a traveler goal. It has numerous yearly occasions and celebrations, the most unmistakable of which is the National Hard Crab Derby. Crisfield is the southern-most city in the province of Maryland; the point most distant south is geologically situated at Ape Hole. Notwithstanding this, Southern Maryland is an official locale of the state not related with the Eastern Shore, and territories of Saint Mary's County are at times professed to be the southernmost purpose of the state.