Milford chronicle., 1883-07-06
HARRINGTON.
ITS RAPID GROWTH AND BRIGHT
PROSPECTS.

! The famed West presents but few ex.
} amplrs of rapid growth in towns more
marked than the town of Harrington,
Delaware. From the small railway
station Of few pears ago, it has de-
veloped into prosperous town with
= busy factories, aud an industrious pop
ulation. The growth is a healthy one
that Is begOlten Ofthe natural surround
lhgs ana that promises TO continue
nom the same causes until this shall
be the centre of "a teeming and pros
porous population. Its situation is
upon the highest level of the peniusu-
la, whence the water drains either
way TO the Chesapeake and Delaware
| Bays. Already the town can toast of
2 spoke mills; large grist mill; the
largest works on the Peninsula for sup
| plying white oak timber for car build-
ing a basket factory; a canning facto-
iyi an evapOrating establishments: an
extensive brick yard; groceries; ana
the usual complement Ofdealers in dry |
goods, hardware, boots I'd shoes, mil |
linery, drugs. &c. Four physicians |
and two hotels look after the health
aud comfort of the resident and visit
ing population.
A Methodist Episcopal, a Methodist
Pr0lestanta Presbyterian and an Epis-
cnpal Church open their doors each
week for the wOrshippers of the re.
spective denominations.
A new and enlarged school is being
built that is arranged for six teachers ,
with as many departments, under the
most approve system of grading.
Harrington is fast gaining in repu- :
tation as market; its local demand !,
Tor the products of the farm is yearly I
To supply the tables of its
hechanlcs and merchants; and beside
{ IS dvautageOusly located at the
JUNCTION OF two railroads, the one, Del
ware road, extending lengthwise of =,
he Peninsula, ru frequent trains of
ars specially fitted for marketing the Ol
uit and grain of the peninsula in m
or any of the interior n,
tiles of the North; the other rOad, the
DEL, Md d Va, connection by boat
With New York at Lewes offers ~
pecial advantages and small expense
ence to that great center of American at
rade. vi
The farm lands of the neighborhood tb
re among the most easily cultivated.
eadily improved and cap4ble of as
reat production as any that may be Er
'und in the Union. The principal the
usS are COTHs WueaL, oats, rye, pOta- VI
es, grass, berries and peaches. Mr.. :
ule has cut this year about thirty tor
MS OF timothy aud clover hay from =
le piece of II acres. near town. =.
The prices of land range low in all lue
is section owing to the trans tion I
ate of agriculture from the holding at
large farms in the past, cultivated in tior
ain only, to the smaller farms of the y
ture with diversified husbandry. -,
frequently happens that an owner ~. ~,
II sell one or more Ofhis many farms aHl
the cost of the improvements there tneI
in order to wheel into line of the
W system of fewer acres aud higher ton
age. that
The money necessary to transport be +
nmiiy from the Atlantic SeabOard visit
the chrap lands of the West will ".
y a comfortable home in Delaware; =.
l when located here, the surround VI
g will be found the most cheering IRON
/ emulating. Markets are handy, agai
Ools and churches convenient, the tow
nate is invigorating and healthful if an
the natural advance ofproperty nate