Kennedyville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Kent County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 199.

Knocks Folly, Shrewsbury Church, and Woodland Hall are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Geography

Kennedyville is in eastern Kent County, 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Chestertown, the county seat, and the same distance southwest of Galena, along Maryland Route 213. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.5 km), of which 0.01 square miles (0.02 km), or 1.15%, are water. The community is drained by tributaries of Morgan Creek, a south-flowing tributary of the Chester River.

Demographics

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
2020	230		—
U.S. Decennial Census

Education

It is in the Kent County Public Schools. Kent County Middle School is in Chestertown, and Kent County High School is in an unincorporated area, in the Butlertown census-designated place with a Worton postal address.

The community was formerly assigned to Worton Elementary School. In 2017 the school board voted to close Worton Elementary.

Notable people

• Wayne Gilchrest, former congressman from the first district of Maryland
• John Needles (1786 – 1878), Quaker abolitionist and a master craftsman of fine furniture