Marydel, MD

Marydel is an incorporated town in Caroline County, Maryland, United States. The 2020 census counted 176 residents. Its name is a portmanteau, after its location, being partially located in Maryland and partially in Delaware. Marydel was originally known as Halltown. In Marydel, history and present-day settings sit close enough to belong to the same local picture. The map tells the story in Marydel, where earlier chapters remain visible in current streets, buildings, and gathering places. Publisher James Gordon Bennett Jr. Marydel was settled by Austro-Hungarian Catholic farmers circa 1914, around the time that the Austro-Hungarian Empire was about to plunge Europe into World War I, and some immigrants from that area came to the United States. In recent times, beginning in the 1990s, the town became home to a large community of Hispanic immigrants of Guatemalan descent.