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The Cheriton area is one of the oldest settled parts of the Eastern Shore. When Captain John Smith explored the Chesapeake Bay and the Eastern Shore in 1608, he wrote in his journal about landing at Cheriton and being brought by Indians to their Werrowance in Accawmacke. Cheriton started out as a railroad town and can trace its beginnings to 1884 when the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Company was extended from Maryland to Cape Charles. Today Cheriton is an attractive town with many late 19th and early 20th century homes, as well as several historic churches and commercial buildings.