Kent county cricket teams matches at Town Malling between 1836 and 1841. The expense of running county games meant that Town Malling proved too small to support a county club, despite the large attendances that games attracted, and in 1842 Pilch moved to the Beverley club at Canterbury. Kent struggled against the prominence of Sussex in the early roundarm years but then enjoyed a glorious period in the middle of the century. Rowland Bowen has recorded that a Maidstone newspaper in 1837 described a match between Kent and Nottinghamshire as for the County Championship. This is the earliest known use of the term although
Kent County, Maryland Neck, and then to the site of modern Chestertown. Before the American Revolution New Town on Chester, now Chestertown, was a port entry for the counties of Cecil, Kent, and Queen Anne's. The county has a number of properties which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Kent County was the mean center of US population in the census of 1790. In 1793, the county had its first newspaper, called "Apollo, or Chestertown Spy." It was succeeded by local papers such as the "Chestertown Gazette". Washington College, the oldest college in Maryland, is located in Kent County. Kent