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Perryville is an incorporated town in Cecil County, Maryland, governed by a mayor and commissioners; it was incorporated in 1882.

The town sits near an Interstate 95 interchange on the north side of the outlet of the Susquehanna River, where the river empties into the Chesapeake Bay.

Perryville was first settled by Europeans in 1622, when Edward Palmer was granted a patent for a settlement on what is now Garrett Island.

Before incorporation the settlement was known as Lower Ferry (around 1695) and later as Susquehanna, and it was finally named Perryville after Mary Perry, the wife of John Bateman.

During the Revolutionary War, Perryville served as a staging area for the Continental Army: Colonel John Rodgers, who operated the ferry and tavern there, raised the 5th Company of the Maryland Militia, which became part of the famous Flying Camp, and George Washington stopped frequently at Rodgers Tavern, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Colonel Rodgers' son John Rodgers, born in Perryville, became a commodore who suppressed the Tripolitan pirates and distinguished himself in the War of 1812, and is known as the Father of the American Navy.

During the 19th century Perryville was the midway station on the Wilmington-to-Baltimore rail line, and during the Civil War, after the rail line to Baltimore was destroyed, the Union Army revived the Susquehanna ferry to move troops and munitions toward Annapolis.

The 2020 census counted 4,391 people in Perryville, in 1,851 households, with 2,024 housing units and a median resident age of 41.8 years.

Perryville is the northern terminus of MARC's Penn Line commuter rail service to Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and its station, built in 1905, also serves as a railroad museum and an Amtrak maintenance facility.

The town is home to the Perry Point Veterans Medical Center, on a campus at the outlet of the Susquehanna River into the Chesapeake Bay that also hosts the Northeast Campus of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.