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