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Description: The Nanticoke & Wicomico Railroad
Date: April 30 1886Newspaper published in: Baltimore
Source: newspaper archives
Salisbury, Md., April 29, 1886:
A meeting of the directors of the Nanticoke & Wicomico Railroad was held at Barren Creek Springs yesterday to perfect an organization of the company. JOHN W. WELLING was called to the chair with GEORGE A. BOUNDS, secretary. The following officers were elected for one year;
JOHN ROBINSON, president; R. S. TOADVINE, secretary; JOHN W. WELLING, treasurer.
JOHN ROBINSON, E. S. TOADVINE, GEORGE A. BOUNDS, and THOMAS TAYLOR, were appointed a committee to draw up by laws and report at the next meeting. Also a committee of five, consisting of; JOHN ROBINSON, LEVIN M. WILSON, A. J. HORSEY, LEVIN J. GALE and E. S. TOADVINE, were appointed to confer with officials of other roads with which the new road is proposed to connect. MR. HARVEY, one of the directors, thought Laurel, Del., the best place to connect with the Delaware Railroad, and others were of the opinion that it would be best to make a junction with the proposed Baltimore and Eastern Shore Railroad as it would give an outlet to Baltimore as well as the Philadelphia and northern markets. The meeting then adjourned subject to the call of the president. The charter of the Nanticoke & Wicomico Railroad provides for the building of the road from some point on the Dorchester & Delaware Railroad near Sharptown on the Delaware state line, thence to Sharptown, thence on to or near the village of Barren Creek and Quantico to some point on the Wicomico or Nanticoke rivers so as to open up the immense oyster beds of those rivers and place them thirty miles nearer market by rail.