Centreville is an incorporated town in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, United States on the Delmarva Peninsula.

It hosts the Queen Anne's County Fair each summer and was home to three franchises during the existence of the Eastern Shore Baseball League—the Colts, Red Sox, and Orioles.

[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.45 square miles (6.35 km2), all land.

[6] The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.

[12] In 1782, the Queen Anne's county courthouse was moved from its original location in Queenstown, Maryland to an area that would, twelve years later, be named Centreville.

Easy access to shipping, trading, and naval waters allowed the town to flourish and to become an important Maryland location.

The Maryland Municipal League's Website, "The Association of Cities and Towns", notes that Centreville's, "[h]istory is reflected in the diverse architecture seen along the streets of the town—elegant Victorian homes with their wrap-around porches, neo-classical public buildings, late-19th-century commercial rows, late-20th-century institutional and government structures, and all the variations and curiosities in between".

John H. Ozmon Store, Readbourne, Reed's Creek Farm, and Stratton are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

[17] Charles was born in Centreville and educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he met fellow student Anne Dickie Warner, a native of Wilmington, Delaware.

The West Gallery includes a collection of their paintings, many depicting local subjects such as watermen at work, historic buildings and daily life in Centreville."

Charles taught painting and sculpture at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland and is best known for his painting "The Narrows" which was exhibited alongside Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe [18] The main means of travel to and from Centreville is by road, and four state highways serve the town.

U.S. Route 301 passes to the southeast, providing a high-speed highway to metropolitan areas such as Philadelphia and Washington D.C..

The location for the courthouse, and for the town of Centreville, was a piece of land on which Judge Joseph Hopper Nicholson lived on at the time.

Here, he writes, "Executed by an unknown hand, undoubtedly that of an artisan rather than an artist...our eagle looked down upon the comings and going of the courtyard, the tears and smiles of its citizens and the successes and failures of the political system which it was designed to represent".

[20] Today, the courthouse remains an important figure in Centreville, Queen Anne's County, and the state of Maryland.