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Vienna is a town located in Dorchester County. Before the Europeans colonized the area, a Nanticoke town known as “Chicacone” lived there. The Nanticokes are an Algonquian people. Chicacone was the largest Nanticoke settlement when John Smith explored the Chesapeake Bay in 1608. English colonizers continually violated Indian reservation rights. This cause the Nanticoke people to abandon Chicacone 1742. In 1768 and 1769, the Colony of Maryland dissolved the Nanticoke reservation. Many of the Nanticokes of Chicacone migrated north to Pennsylvania, New York and Canada. Others stayed and were assimilated into the white or black communities of lower Dorchester County and Wicomico County.
Vienna was founded in 1706. It thrived on trade, shipbuilding and tobacco farming. The wreck of a 45-foot cargo ship was found in 2015. It was under the Route U.S. 50 Bridge over the Nanticoke River. It is believed the ship was likely built at a small shipyard or plantation in Maryland. Charring of the wreckage suggests it was torched by British sympathizers in the 1780’s. The British raided Vienna repeatedly during the American Revolutionary War, and again during the War of 1812. A wall was built across the city’s waterfront on the Nanticoke River. The wall is now in ruins.
The Town of Vienna was incorporated in 1833. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town of Vienna has a total area of 0.19 square miles. All of that area is land.