Milford chronicle., 1883-08-01
HARRINGTON.
ITS RAPID GROWTH AND BRIGHT
PROSPECTS.

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The famed West presents but few ex-
amples of rapid growth in towns more
marked than the town of Harrington,
| Delaware. From the small railway
station Of a few pears ago, it has de
velOped into a prosperous town with
busy factories, and an industrious pop
ulatiOn. The growth is Il healthy one
that is begOtten of the natural surround
ings and that promises to continue
from 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 peninsu-
la, whence the water drains either
way to the Chesapeake and Delaware
Bays. Already the town can boast of
spoke mills; a 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-
~; All evaporating establishments; an
extensive brick yard; groceries; and
the usual complement Ofdealers in dry
goods, hardware boots and shoes, mil
linery, drugs, sc. -Four physicians
and two hotels look after the health
and comfort of the resident and visit
ing population.
A Methodist Episcopal, Methodist
PrOtestant,a Presbyterian and an Epis-
copal Church open their doors each
week for the wOTshippers 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 a market; its local demand /
for the products of the farm is yearly |
increasing to supply the tables of its
mechanics and merchants; and beside /
it is advantageOusly located at the |
junction Of two railroads. the one, Del |
aware road, extending lengthwise of
the Peninsula, III IS frequent trains Of |
cars specially fitted for marketing the /
fruit and grain of the peninsula in +
Philadelphia, or any of the interior
cities Of the North; the other road, the
Del, Md d Va, connection by boat
with New York at Lewes offers
special advantages and small expense
hence to that great center of American
trade.
The farm lands of the neighhorhOod
are among the most easily cultivated,
readily improved and capable of as
great pIOuQCAibii aS any AiAAt may NC
found in the Union. The principal
crops are corn. wheat, oats, rye, pOta-
toes, grass, berries aud peaches. AR.
Cole has cut this year about thirty
tons of timothy aud clover hay from
one piece of II acres. near town.
The prices of land range lowin all
this section owing to the transition
State of agriculture from the holding
Of large farms in the past, cultivated in
grain only, to the smaller farms Of the
future with a diversified husbandry
It frequently happens that an owner
will sell one or more of his many farms
or the cost of the improvements there
IN in order to wheel into line of the
new system of fewer acres and higher
illage.
The money necessary to transport /,
. family from the Atlantic Seaboard
o the cheap lands of the West will
Juy a comfortable home in Delaware;
md when located here, the surround /.
ngs will be found the most cheering I,
md emulating. Markets are handy,
chools and churches convenient, the \
Innate is inYigoTatipg and healthful
md the natural advance Of property