OVERBROOK
SUSSEX COUNTY, DELAWARE
BROADKILL HUNDRED
Dick Clark's “History of
Sussex County” relates the Overbrook was never a town or village,
rather a neighborhood of of
prosperous farms. It was also a station on the QueenAnne's Railroad
in
1900's when excursion
trains which ran to Lewes' Queen Anne's Pier and on to Cape May, New
Jersey.
Clark goes on the tell the
Overbrook area was home to the lower Delaware fox hunters
group, a rugged, wild and
boistterous, down to earth bunch, unlike the more elegant
participants of
Virginia and Maryland in
their well taylored habits , riding to the hounds and sound of
brass
hunting horns. Many local
farmers had packs of hounds, five or more, that they let loose to
run
across the winter fields and
forest , baying, with the farmers right behind, whooping and
hollering.
I believe I have record
that Overbrook at one time had a post office in a general store, and
even a schoolhouse.
I'll add this later, if I
can find it.
Abstract October 22, 2017,
by Harrison H, from “History of Sussex County”, Delaware Coast
Press.
By Dick Clark, 1976.
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