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Dorchester County Commercial Directory

Finchville 1908-1909

With 65 inhabitants, is located in Dorchester County, on the county road, 
8 miles from Oak Grove, Del., the shipping point, 25 NE of Cambridge, 
10 from Seaford, Del., the banking town, and on the Nanticoke River (Seaford).  
Mail, Oak Grove, Del. 

Business Persons:

Stanton, John T., mason            (note: the post office opened here on 
Wheatley, Green, carpenter          11/21/1879, with James M. Smith as
Wheatley, J.T., saw and planing     the P/M. It closed on 8/31/1903).
mill, packing house and
general store

Area Farmers:

Bradley, William S         Wheatley, E.A..
Bramble, B.F.              Wheatley, Green
Coulborn, A.M.             Wheatley, Isaac L.
Hackett, Lucke K.          Wheatley, J.J.
Johnson, J.C.              Wheatley, Josiah
Jones, Benjamin            Wilson, J.N.
LeCompte, N.B.
Lyons, W.D. 
Milligan, P.E.
Milligan, S.
Mitchell, William
Smoot, William P.
Spoul, Henry
Stanton, J.T.
Tull, W.L.D.
Wheatley, A.J.
Wheatley, Alfred