The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-09-03

Commemorative Of the Completion
Of the F'ifty-first Year Of
The Cecil Whiq.

FIPON the concurrent authority historians Maryland Captain
John Smith intrepid der OF the Virginia colonsts the first
white man who set foot upon Cecil county, explored its
the impressions made him
aboriginal Suquennocks had the daune5s captain ed long
enough upon banks the picturesque which they
the halo that rests over the OF the
Pochonas by rival OF that gigantic
tribe and royal Powhaan that flows the Of
Vrgnas daughters enriched that of her equally fair
Maryland birth great that the
accident Of circumstance often lends adventous charm to family
ancestry . , ,.,
spestown and the Virginia settlements of
eN& permanent sefleent made by others Pames
Island on the sSuquehanna and in 1927
ii saFsf .sf events of history of tCecil county
Captain Smith when he hight the first glimpse in zoos of
the rwards bounty looked
upo flowing honevk behed grand noble
kwng towards the which in the march of the
Empire destined soon to become the busy highways her
heard the eloing cascades, and miniature
many conbuoy hing the rocks and bouldes in
the Chesapeake and which to the keeny commercial
- pioneer suggestive of busy mill SITES and the titanic
aa gave ponderou machinery, and speed to whrlng
He primeval forests enriched by the unduDed growth OF
Ia centuries hill side and mountain hiding emboweled
III mineral He meadows and wide stretches of
s. s eultes toucf bearing their the abun
Il hsards pioneer husbandman He the blue depths of
x river eemng with food for be had without price, and
darkened by flight edible fowl in countless mlors
bd he saw podiea lavshng han1 abun
Mand still greater o! future tuny TOR man, II the
the means of life liberty and happiness What counys
typography pristine wealth promised early settlers when
lind of enterprise industry touched it, to be realized
v early history became the OF multiplied munuactu
pnty by presenting number its leading manufactures rather
III trace the history ofs industrial development short
a reference latter does not seem inappropriate
~ INDUSTRIAL L PAST.
first mill Of which any the early records of
county was that deed from George Talbot Jacob
1857 about hundred and FIVE was
sbess Touring MILL located ct the head OF stream
of the Susquhanna then known Pny Creek but suo
called and Mill Creek In this deed the yearly
10 ing sterling covenanted to be paid the oc OIL
at the Creekhe present Pnnpo
the
p;n Ctandee the OF the firm of Chandee Sons at
ow Calve belongs distinction of achieving the first
;on &c Cecil county manufacturer. AS early I74 he had
established wide reputation as MANUFACTURED Oh ' ;s
surveyors compasse &C. the production OF which required
G attainment as mechanical genius and skill AS early as
r7s lanes William Brown who were the pioneer settlers o o
. Touring mill North East Creek known as ur
frds MILL previous to that Isaac Van mao
me unon Bohemia Rlver called Mill ofeek' On " S
tnovn as Suyers mill and which the first mill mentioned
-: f that part Cecil county The spirit OF
however, exhibited itself still earlier the Head OF ELK
William Smith had erected the first mill in this section
&C early as 1906. The earliest landowner the immediate
Of North of whom mention is made In the county fecoo
Iob named who had OF land con
mned in 171 mill site at the junction Oh tne east anu %
t Creek Previous Robert Dutton owned mill near
= site OF the Mccullough CompanyS Iron Works Ibis mill
located near bottom OF the main tails OF Norm East anu was
iron mill On Big Elk Creek of Cowanown lii 1928
Psooao Iu;rowoth was doing ourshng business at his MILL
eph in this county point omportance in the
IRON in 12o works being located there early I7o the
~ which that time members OF the PrncP'o company
one Of the companies organized In Cecil county o the
snch was - rop father and brother of General Washington
A :t in this company In merchant During mills
ned bno business Rock Run the Slsquehanna, and
aos pearces MILL equally well known the lower sections
the county ot fecI counv u,s not only shown in
ING which took against the expressions OF
e pn in the Revolutionary struggle but as well the'r na,
fea br e colonial army Col Henry Holngsworth the grand
citizen John Partridge Esq was one VINO
AAher o o ou,1v enterprise and patriotism 10 the colonial
ss @ met at Annapolis January I776, COL Hongs-
proposition to manufacture gun barrels and Dayone'S % s
uth which proposition accepted IN May that year, ana
uona " advanced the Colonel 10 begin their
Ve Skilled and steel workers were difficult to hnd and
uac succeeded manufacturing the arms on
oDgh inc ed of quality and returned to him.
M annoyance. Fifteen years previous in 10I the ELK Forge
eh TO m roanzsd by John Roberts, David DAVIS thomas May
We" Of Philadelphia, who formed partnership under the
o the g for T the % oe of bar Gn i
ffFFsrse was w. ~ doinp thriving business
company hrrchman Noting and Samuel Hughes formed
In 1885 Jo constructed the Ocoo the site
m the Cecil Mills In 1901 it came into the possession
pp Frey Matthew Irwin" and ''' Some "S was Know" Frey
ne.