Dorchester County Commercial Directory
Taylor's Island 1908-1909
“is on an island of same name, in Dorchester County, 19 miles southwest of
Cambridge, the banking town, and nearest rail approach. Ship by water
direct. Population 980…daily stage from Cambridge. Bernard L. McGuire,
postmaster.”
Barnes, Allen T., general store Local farmers:
Brooks, D. Rev. Keene, O.A.
Dashiell, William, blacksmith Lambden, R.D.
Dean & Bro., fish Leonard, J.T.
Harrington, B.F., fertilizer, lumber, Maguire, John
canning factory and genl store. Meekins, G.E.
Keene, O.A., genl store Noble, D.L.
Lambdin, H.W., undertaker Noble, Lee
Leonard, J.T., genl store North, Joseph
Prettyman, C.B., saw mill Prettyman, D.J.
Robinson, M.F., blacksmith Robinson, J.H.
Shriver, J.K.,Jr., physician Slacum, C.
Smith, Laurence, Rev. Slacum, N.
Spicer & Harrington, fish and Spicer, James
oysters. Spicer, T.T., Jr.
Staplefort Thomas W., magistrate Spilman, H.P.
Thiel, Paul, genl store Staplefort, T.W.
Tolley, Benjamin, wagonmaker Sterling, E.G.
Woolford, S.M., express agent Thompson, T.S.
Tolley, B.F.
Local Farmers Travers, Harry
Aaron, B.L. Vickers, Thomas H.
W.B. Barnes Willey, H.E.
Bosley, J.H. Woolford, Milbourn
Brannock, William
Brown, W.S. (Note: this P.O. was opened 5/18/1850,
Cator, Charles B. with Thomas H. Keene as P.M.)
Dashiell, W.F.
Dunnock, M.M.
Edmondson, E.H.
Horseman, Jenkins
Horseman, Martin E.
Jarrett, Samuel
Jones, Eugene