Harmony is a small unincorporated community in Caroline County

Caroline County, Maryland

Caroline County is a wholly rural county located in the U.S. state of Maryland on its Eastern Shore. It is bordered by Queen Anne's County to the north, Talbot County to the west, Dorchester County to the south, Kent County, Delaware, to the east, and Sussex County, Delaware, to the southeast. As...

, Maryland

Maryland

Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...

, United States

United States

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. It is little more than an intersection of state Routes 16

Maryland Route 16

Maryland Route 16 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs from Taylors Island east to the Delaware state line in Hickman, where the highway continues as Delaware Route 16...

 and 578

Maryland Route 578

Maryland Route 578 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Bethlehem Road, the state highway runs from MD 331 in Bethlehem east to MD 16 in Harmony. The first segment of MD 578 was completed in the mid 1930s; the remainder was built in the early 1940s.-Route description:MD...

 on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Its original name was Fowling Creek named after a stream nearby that is a tributary of the Choptank River

Choptank River

The Choptank River is a major tributary of the Chesapeake Bay on the Delmarva Peninsula. Running for , it rises in Kent County, Delaware, runs through Caroline County, Maryland and forms much of the border between Talbot County, Maryland on the north, and Caroline County and Dorchester County on...

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There is a small country store with one gas pump, a church, a local produce stand, and lots of farmland. While many of the farmers in the area are of German

Germans

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 descent as can be seen in last names such as Kraus, Steenken, and Worm; they settled later after the civil war filling the void of the men lost in the war. The older families of Towers, Todd, and Wyddel were the original settlers that came from England

England

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 in the early eighteenth century as can be confirmed from the original patents granted to them one of which is Wyddels Venture, the oldest century farm in the county.

The soil is sandy and requires irrigation

Irrigation

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, unlike many farms in nearby Talbot County

Talbot County, Maryland

-2010:Whereas according to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau:*81.4% White*12.8% Black*0.2% Native American*1.2% Asian*0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander*1.6% Two or more races*2.7% Other races*5.5% Hispanic or Latino -2000:...

. There are many cash crop

Cash crop

In agriculture, a cash crop is a crop which is grown for profit.The term is used to differentiate from subsistence crops, which are those fed to the producer's own livestock or grown as food for the producer's family...

s grown such as sweet corn, cantaloupes, tomatoes, squash, etc... There are quite a few migrant camps for Mexican workers who help with the crops in the summer. Most farms also have chicken houses as a second means of income.