Dorchester County Commercial Directory
Rhodesdale 1908-1909
“On the Balto.,Chesapeake, & Atlantic Rwy, in Dorchester County, 17 miles
from Cambridge. Hurlock is the banking town. Population is 50. Daily stage
to Brookview and Walnut Landing.. M.L.Murphy, postmaster.”
Business Persons:
Collison, T.W., deputy sheriff & Farmers, cont’d:
constable McWilliams, G.W.
Corkran, J.M., physician Morgan, John
Dolby, H.J., general store and Murphy, D.W.
cannery Murphy, John
Haggott, Howard, L., blacksmith Pickrune, William
McWilliams, O.W., general store & Reid, L.C.
justice of the peace Rhodes, W.L.
Murphy, D.W., general store Ross, C.N.
Murphy, Marie L.& Co.,genl store Short, W.D.
Pabst, W.P., blacksmith Smith, M.J.T.
Rhodes, W.W., physician Smith, W.
Rhodes, J.W., general store Thomas, E.
Wilson, John, general store Thomas, J.
Wright, O.R. & Bro., canning Thompson, G.A.
factory. Thompson, J.R.
Tubman, L.E.
Local Farmers: Vane, S.P.
Aydelott, Henry Wainwright, John
Bennett, J.E. Webster, George
Camper, J. Windsor, William
Corkran, Daniel Woollen, W.J.
Corkran, L.N.
Dunn, Thomas (note: the P.O. opened here 5/8/1891, not long after the
Ellis, W.J. new Balto. & Eastern Shore RR started coming through
Gale, George on its way from Claiborne in Talbot County to Ocean
Hooper, A.N. City. By 1894 there was a major rail merger, and the
Jackson, George resulting new RR was called the Balto, Chesapeake, and
Jackson, L.N. Atlantic Rwy. The 1st postmaster was Johney T. Vane)
Jones, Minos
Layton, J.T.
Layton, R.
Loomis, F.E.
Lord, G.E.C.