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Cambridge is a city in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 13,096 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Dorchester County and the county’s largest municipality. Cambridge is the fourth most populous city in Maryland’s Eastern Shore region, after Salisbury, Elkton and Easton.

Settled by English colonists in 1684, Cambridge is one of the oldest colonial cities in Maryland. At the become old of English colonization, the Algonquian-speaking Choptank Indians were aimless along the river of the similar name. During the colonial years, the English colonists developed farming on the Eastern Shore. The largest plantations were devoted first to tobacco, and then polluted farming. Planters bought enslaved people to farm tobacco and tainted farming. The town was a trading center for the area. The town pier was the center for slave trading for the region, a history competently documented by historical markers throughout the town center.

It was incorporated officially in 1793, and occupies part of the former Choptank Indian Reservation. Cambridge was named after the city and county in England. The town became a stop on the Underground Railroad, which had an extensive network of secure houses for enslaved people escaping to the north.