GHOST ISLAND

DORCHESTER COUNTY MARYLAND HISTORY

LEGEND OF GHOST ISLAND

Ghost Island is just to the southwest of the Lewis Wharf homestead near Henrys Crossroads on Elliott Island Road. It is really not an island, being surrounded by marsh land, not waters, it is small, less than an acre, with Peach Orchard Creek to it's north.

In the early 1800's Lewis Wharf and the homestead were purchased

by three men and one, Jesse Wainwright, took residence in the haunted

Lewis house. Wainwright , it has been told, got rid of the Lewis house

ghost, but the small island west of the house still had 'sightings' of a ghost

said to be one of the past Lewis house owners.

While out hunting muskrats, a neighbor in his row boat was sitting

up the creek when he heard a rustling noise in the marsh reeds and was

ready to take another fat muskrat, when by moonlight saw a man walking

out of the reeds, on top of the creek waters, without falling in. The muskrat

hunter wasted no time leaving and was soon telling his story to Jesse

Wainwright. Jesse told him he hadn’t seen anything yet , but wait till old

man Levins Lewis, now in the grave by the Lewis house, comes riding

his white mule on Ghost Island.

The story here is that the gold treasure hid in the old Lewis house had

been found and removed, so the ghost of Ghost Island, had lost their job of

guarding it and left.

Abstract : Between the Blackwater & Nanticoke by Bruce Neal Stump.