City on the Choptank
harbor, making it more accessible to shipping activities. The railroad and new improved harbor facilities stimulated trade in Cambridge and other port towns in the county, as records show that large amounts of grain, crabs, oysters, fish and fruits moved through the area in 1869 and 1870. The first large manufacturing company was founded in 1869 on the east side of Cambridge Creek by J.W. Crowell and Company. This firm provided flour and lumber, supplying white oak timber for the cars of the Central Pacific Railroad. Local progress was temporarily halted on July 30, 1892, when a terrible fire wrought destruction on the growing town. The blaze
wounded at Gettysburg. Captured by the Federal Army, he was imprisoned at Fort McHenry and later exchanged for Federal prisoners in 1864. Colonel Woolford established an oyster packing firm in Cambridge after the Civil War. Change came to Cambridge after the Civil War. The Dorchester and Delaware Railroad, incorporated in 1866, connected the town with Seaford, Delaware, in 1868. A telegraph company was established in 1868. During the same year, the Cambridge Harbor Internal Navigation Wharf Company was organized to dredge the
Monument at Gettysburg pays tribute to the First Eastern Shore Regiment of Infantry, Maryland Volunteers. 56