HURLOCK

1902 HURLOCK

Hurlock came with the Dorchester & Delaware Railroad in 1867 when they put a station

there. Later the railroad became the Cambridge and Seaford Rail Road,.

John M. Hurlock built the first storehouse in 1869 who also built the first dwelling in 1872.

At that time there was a fine forest of oak on all sides of the station  and here the Methodist

held camp meetings each year.     James M. Andrews sold lots for $25.

William Wesley Howeth built the second home there in 1885, after which the following

families of T. W. Noble, Henry Sinclair, B. F. Carroll, Thomas Wright and Thomas Hackett

built dwelling in 1887. Also in 1887 James Dean built a hotel.

Hurlock continued to grow, so in 1893 it was incorporated. There were fifteen stores of all

descriptions, two hotels, a grist mill, a saw mill and a box factory that had twenty men

employed, two canning houses, a creamery, a machine shop and the Hurlock Drop

Forge a principal industrial enterprise. The town had a post office with a postmaster,

William H. Stevens. Hurlock had t wo churches, Methodist Episcopal and Methodist

Protestant, two doctors, Dr. Nichols and Dr. Haefner.

In 1890, another railroad, the B. C. & A. R. R. came to cross the Cambridge & Seaford R. R.

which gave Hurlock a boom with 460 inhabitants and growing thriftly.

Abstract: March 14, 2019, by Harrison H. for www.delmarhistory.blogspot.com & facebook's

Rembering Hurlock page. Source: 'History of Dorchester County Maryland' by Elias Jones,

Baltimore Maryland 1902.