A post on the "Cambridge Maryland Memories - come share yours" Facebook group in late May 2020, got me thinking of the siding that ran from the station across Maryland Avenue & out to the mouth of Cambridge Creek.
Not only did the siding serve the Cambridge Shipbuilders and the Cambridge Manufacturing Company, the Port of Cambridge was built off of this line & DORCO (Dorchester Fertilizer
& Lime Company - they changed their name to "DORCO" sometime between 1951-1952) also were on this single siding off of the Cambridge Secondary.
Specifically, DORCO's facility burned in
1963, and was purchased and rebuilt by the Baugh Company who continued
fertilizer production from 1964 to 1965. Kerr-McGee purchased the
plant in 1965, and continued fertilizer production until the plant
closed in 1977. In 1978, the Arundel Corporation purchased the plant
and used it for the storage of aggregate for concrete operations.
Today, you wouldn't recognize the location of all of this industry, but some of the buildings from the Shipbuilders and the Manufacturing companies still stand as part of the boatyard off of Hayward Street.
Cambridge Shipbuilders and Cambridge Manufacturing Company in the late 1940 by H. Robins Hollyday, Talbot County Historical Society.
Cambridge Shipyard and DORCO in Cambridge, MD in 1963 by William D. Brightwell.
Cambridge Yacht Club, Cambridge Creek where it meets the Choptank River, Cambridge, MD in the 1960s by Walter C. Thurston, Jr.
Port of Cambridge, Cambridge, MD in the (early) 1960s by an unknown photographer.
