“A county settlement located in Dorchester County, 8 miles west of Cambridge, the banking town, 65 by boat from Baltimore, and 2 from Traver’s Wharf, the shipping station. On Great Choptank River. Population 150. J.M.Beckwith, postmaster” Asplen, Ethel, teacher Beckwith, , J.E., &Co, general store Beckwith, J.M., postmaster (note: the post office opened on 1/4/1856, Beckwith, Nehemiah, wheelwright with Samuel Corner as P/M. It was to Hastings, J.A., saw and corn mill close on 11/30/1931, as were many others Linthicum, S.W., saw mill in the Depression.) (RFD 5, Cambridge Md.) Jackson, L., Rev Moore, D.L., shoemaker, carpenter and justice of the peace Newcomb, G., blacksmith Stokes, S.A., physician (RFD 5,Cambridge) Area Farmers: Barrack, William Beckwith, J. Ennalls Beckwith, John, M. Cannon, Wash Cook, Samuel Corkran, Norman H. Spedden, Graves Hill, J. Hill, Samuel Hubbard, T.R. Layton, William LeCompte, Caleb Linthicum, W.W. Malone, Harry Mowbray, William Moore, S.L. North, Lake Spedden, Calvin Travers, T.B. Wheatley, John Wheatley, W. Wingate, Frank