Evening journal., 1896-11-19
MARYLAED'S CURIOUS NAMES.
SINGULAR POST OFFICE NOMEN-
CLATURE AND ITS ORIGIN IN
NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.

SINGULAR POST OFFICE NOMEN-
CLATURE AND IT'S ORIGIN IN
NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.
EAsTON, Md. Nov 19.-Once in
awhile there are published curious ami
outre names of post offices In various
parts of the United States. The news
paper writer's who compile the articles
generally leave Maryland out. though
the state can make a valuable contri-
button to such a list.
In Talbot the old post offices at pres
ent existing are Oxford St. Michaels
Trappe and Easton. There was an old
post Office i'm the Fourth election dis
trict called Chapel. and which gave the
name to the district but the site and
name has been abolished as "a post Of
fee, the name being preserved in "a
railroad station. Another old post Of
flee was Bay Hundred. frequently WRIT
ten Bay 100, which was the only post
Office west of ST. Michael's when The
mail came across the Chesapeake I'm
batteau from Annapolis To- Haddaway'f
Ferry, and was taken on horseback
later In a gig, over the post road from
Bay Hundred 10 Snow Hill.
West of ST.. MiChaels there are now
six Talbot post offices, each supplied
with n daily mail They are whitman
named for "a merchant who was its FIRST
postmaster; Sherwood named i'm honor
of Thomas l. Sherwood. who bad an
estate and built q village theroabOut.
Tilghman. on the island OF that name.
and Fairbank, on the same island
named for one of its original settlers
These are i'm Bay Hundred election dis
trict. I'm Broad Creek Neck. part of
ST. Michaels election district are Nca-
WITT named for Merchant Henry Clay
Neavitt. at whose store il was cstab-
lished and who has been postmaster
there for thirty-fOur consecutive years
and Bozman. named for tho "Histor-
ian of Maryland. Between Royal Oak
and Easton Is Kirlham post office, on
tract OF land whosooriginal name was
Kirkham. Bellevue, fancy name is on
the Tired Avon river. opposite oxford.
Tunis Mills, named for Tunis Brothers
lumber mills. is in Miles River Neck
There is also "a Tunis post Office in
North Carolina named for a member o.
the same family. who settled there
In Talbot, ON the highway between
Easton and Centreville, are Longwood.
established when the road passed
through q wood two miles long but
which has almost entirely yielded to
the woOdman' Sldpton, the origin OF
whose name is unknown. and Wye
named for the river, which was itself
named I'm early colonial days. either
because it is shaped like the letter Y
or because the first settlers We're emil
grants from the Wye region of the old
country On the Delaware and Chosa-
peake railway are Woodland Cordova
and Queen Anne. The last is near
whore the three couuties-Talhot
Queen Anne and Caroline come TO a
junction Woodland tells ON ITSELF
and CordOva has the meliluOuE Span
ish tone about Il. and was named, fam
cifully, for the Spanish city.
Another Talbot post office is Ham
hlcton. iu Trappc district named for
a distinguished family that had farms
and mill seat there The old name
of the old village before Il reached the
dignity of being a post town was Hole
in-the-Wall The antiquarian has never
been able 20 ascertain the origin of that
name Matthews lis star-route post
Office in Easton district, nance for
Charles Pulaski Polk Matthews who
was i'm business there. and Windy Hin
in Trappe district has recently been
established on q farm of chat name
4 I'AA AANNN W"AAi liN"A NNA ANNi .tNAAN'k 4 AAN
orners, captain John Smith called the
whole of the Eastern Shore Taverner's
Woods), Dundee and Manassas, but
they have been abolished. Through
several administrations a woman, Miss
Mary w. Stewart has been postmasterai
Oxford. lt is not probable she viii hi
removed as long as she wishes to re-
tain the Office by any administration
Whoever is partisan enough or solhsl
enough to try to get the Office from Mis-.
Stewart would find himself an a hope
less minority
Among curious names of post office.
on the Eastern Shore are Agner Amer
lean Corner and Two Johns. in Caro-
line; Blucball, Rising Sun and Thoo
dore. I'm Cecil; Bestpitch. Beulah. Bish
ops Head, Crapo. Eldorado. Hawkeyl
and Secretary, i'm Dorchester; Morg
nee, I'm Kent; Guy and Mattapex. IN
Queen Anne, Danes Quarter, Edwin
Habnab. Jason, Marumsco. Oriole. We
mona and Widgeon, ia Somerset, Bi
valve, Rockawalking, Tyashin an,
Wango. In Wicomico, BoxirOn. Girdle
tree lronshiro and Kloi Grange. il
Worcester; which also has "a BshOl
and a IiIehnnViIln rraf GfIfnr