Abstracts from the "Port Tobacco Times & Charles County Advertiser" Volume Three, 1870-1875 by Wearmouth, Roberta J - 2019

Heritage Books, Inc. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2019. First Edition; First Impression. Paperback. 1556138784 . Book looks new and never read. Volume 3 of the Abstracts re-opens a door long considered or thought shut on the years that saw the beginning of events that led to the destruction of the town of Port Tobacco. Just before Christmas of 1872 the tracks of southern Maryland's first railroad finally reached the sleepy shore of the Potomac River. Studding the right-of-way of the new rail line from the main road seventy miles north appeared almost overnight a series of new stations built hurriedly to support commerce and communications from Huntingtown to Popes Creek on the river. One of them, La Plata Station, sprung up four miles east of Port Tobacco. This single event, more than any other, led to political and commercial bitterness marked by a viciousness that pitted old established families against one another. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 266 pages .