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History and location
Built in 1959. Owner-run since 1961.
Cloverfields has never waited on anyone else to look after it. That started early.
Our story
The owners took charge
Cloverfields was started in 1959 by David M. Nichols and Company, a Baltimore realtor, on the Chester River side of Kent Island.
By the summer of 1961, rumor had it the Nichols company was headed for bankruptcy. A group of lot owners did not wait to find out. They formed the Cloverfields Improvement Association and incorporated it under Maryland law on September 12, 1961.
That association is today's Cloverfields Property Owners' Association. It holds title to the beach, the marina, the pool and the clubhouse on behalf of its members. More than sixty years on, the neighborhood is still run by the people who live in it.
- 1959David M. Nichols and Company begins Cloverfields.
- 1961Lot owners organize and incorporate on September 12.
- 1968First issue of the Cloverfields News, with photos of the neighborhood's dirt roads.
- 2003Hurricane Isabel strikes on September 19 and damages the beach and marina.
- TodayA volunteer board and ten committees carry on the work.
Where we are
Kent Island, on the Chester River
Cloverfields is in Stevensville, Queen Anne's County, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, just over the Bay Bridge.
Local services
Who handles what
The association looks after the amenities. These are yours to set up.