The Dorchester & Delaware Railroad laid a line connecting Cambridge to Seaford in 1869. The D&D went bankrupt in 1883, and the Pennsylvania Railroad gained control of the peninsular railroad system in 1891, renaming it the Cambridge & Seaford.
The railroad provided easy market access for Dorchester County’s seafood and farm produce. Due in part to that, Cambridge saw rapid population, industrial, and commercial growth in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
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