Category: People from Worcester County, Massachusetts

* Joseph A. Smith ( died 2003 ), American politician ; Sheriff of Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1962 – 1977

Agnew died unexpectedly on September 17, 1996, aged 77 at Atlantic General Hospital, in Berlin, Maryland, in Worcester County ( near his Ocean City home ), only a few hours after being hospitalized and diagnosed with an advanced, yet to that point undetected, form of leukemia.

Category: People from Worcester County, Massachusetts

Worcester County is the name of two counties in the United States of America:

* Worcester County, Massachusetts

* Worcester County, Maryland

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On 1 April 1998 the County of Hereford and Worcester was abolished, and Herefordshire and Worcestershire were re-established as separate counties, although with slightly altered borders.

* Stephen Decatur High School ( Maryland ), Worcester County

* Stephen Decatur Middle School, Worcester County, Maryland

** Worcester County, Massachusetts

* Worcester Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

* Worcester County, Maryland

* Germantown, Worcester County, Maryland, an unincorporated community

Of the 23 counties in Maryland, nine are on the Eastern Shore: Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot, Caroline, Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset, and Worcester, as well as a portion of Cecil County.

In 1742 Worcester County was created from Somerset County.

In 1867 portions of Somerset and Worcester Counties were taken to create Wicomico County.

Wicomico County was created from Somerset and Worcester counties in 1867.

A track connection still exists with the main line ( now the Framingham / Worcester Line ); catenary is installed up to the junction for offloading trolleys delivered by the railroad onto the light rail network.

The former monastic library of Worcester contained a considerable number of manuscripts which are, among other libraries, now scattered over Cambridge, London ( British Library ), Oxford Bodleian, and the Cathedral library at Worcester of today.

Elgar revised the final variation, adding 100 new bars and an organ part ; the new version, the one usually played today, was played at the Worcester Three Choirs Festival on 13 September 1899, with Elgar conducting.

Successive waves of immigrants have in the past formed coherent ethnic enclaves, some of which continue to contribute to the rich ethnic texture of Worcester today.

Worcester County was separated from Somerset in 1742, and by 1774 Sandy Hill had grown large enough to merit a chapel of ease within All Hallows ' Parish, today called Holy Cross Chapel.

Although Worcester is near the centre of Oxford today, it was on the edge of the city in the eighteenth century.

However, it is now recognised that the work as it survives today was authored by John, a fellow monk at Worcester, whose signature is found in two later entries ( s. a. 1128 and 1138 ).

A few of these are on display in museums today: the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has one, as does the Higgins Armory in Worcester, Massachusetts ; the armour of Henry VIII in the Tower of London has a codpiece.

Arthur was buried in Worcester Cathedral where " Prince Arthur's Chantry " stands today.

A journey from London to Worcester takes much longer today than before rationalisation, in spite of faster rolling stock.

During the Civil War, provincial mints produced very rare unites to pay the troops, at Chester, Oxford, Bristol, Exeter, Worcester and Shrewsbury -- some of these unites are today unique coins.

His work can be found today at art museums across the United States and the United Kingdom, most notably the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Frick Collection in New York City, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., the National Portrait Gallery in London, Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

A document that Howard Colvin found at Worcester College library in Oxford in the 1960s confirmed not only de Caus as the architect, but that the original plan for the south facade was to have been over twice the length of that built ; what we see today was intended to be only one of two identical wings linked by a central portico of six Corinthian columns.

After a petition by some notable citizens of Worcester to endow the school permanently, the school was given a Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth I in 1561 and a governing body known as the Six Masters was set up, which remains as the governing body of the new RGS Worcester school today.

The 1906 Charity Commission survey also recorded a number of Pubs in Worcester which still exist today.

The Worcester and Birmingham raised their water level by six inches to minimise water loss and today the two pairs of lock gates have been removed.

The grounds are known today mainly as the home ballpark of the National League's Worcester Worcesters from 1880 to 1882.

This futuristic concept mall was designed to be the mecca of suburban shopping between Boston and Worcester, as the area around its original property remains today.

The family lived at Diglis House in Worcester ( today the Diglis Hotel ).

In 1651 before the Battle of Worcester the hill was turned into a redoubt by the Royalists, ( the remains of which can be seen today in Fort Royal Hill Park ).