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A Good Map Can sit here and stare, romantic notions in of Opossum Hill, Downes or Melville
my head of what once might have been. Crossroads. When the folks from the
Clue You In railroad planned out a route from the
Growing up, I considered myself a
Nearly As Well As Prestonian though I have only lived a main line in Seaford, Delaware, to run
down to Cambridge, they drew the line
a History Book couple of my years within its city limits. through Federalsburg. Shipping built
In school I joked that I was actually
the town and sustains it yet. If Chicago
from “North Linchester” but I was the
by Bryan Gadow only one to laugh. (Nothing new with is America’s Second City, Federalsburg
is Caroline’s. While most of the county
I’ve heard it said that “nobody listens that.) When I moved on to Colonel is connected with the Choptank (or its
to the radio anymore”. Well, recently I Richardson I delighted in a rivalry with tributary, the Tuckahoe) down here we
was listening and the DJ related a news the Federalsburgers, constantly running have a river of our own. Th e railroad?
story stating that maps are coming back down their town. That all seems My map tells me it would have been
into style. Really! Younger generations childish now, and not just because I easier to run it through Finchville,
have discovered them and sales are up. happen to live in “the Burg” myself home today to a blinking light...and
(This message brought to you by Maps, these days. How did Federalsburg not much else. But the only rail service

the American Map Board, and your grow to become the second largest in our county still runs strong, the

Map Checkoff.) And so, here I sit with town in the county? A good map can Maryland & Delaware housing its
my nifty street map of Caroline County. clue you in nearly as well as a history corporate headquarters in our train

My attention is especially drawn to book: it happens to be the farthest up station.
the names in smaller type: so many the Marshyhope that you can get in
stories they have to tell! I suppose a any kind of real boat. In the horse and Federalsburg “made it” but what of
book may have been written to explain buggy days, when a trip to the county the others? My grandfather used to
them every one, and wouldn’t it be a sad seat was an all-day affair, waterways speak of someone who lived “over near

state of aff airs if I lived my whole life were as good as today’s interstates. Bureau”. There was something about

and never read it? As it is, I can only That modest creek was a gateway to the that name that always intrigued me,
world, and one not available to the likes but I always felt uneasy when Pop-Pop

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