![]() ![]() An abandoned oyster packing house (correct me if I’m wrong!) off George Island Landing. In the 2000 census, the population of Stockton was 143. Most of the oyster packing houses were never rebuilt today, however, commercial crabbing and clamming remain strong. The new Inlet in Ocean City resulted in an influx of saltwater to the Stockton bays and caused parasites that decimated the local oyster population. 15 oyster packing houses were destroyed in the storm. In 1933, the famous storm that cut the Ocean City Inlet and ultimately built Ocean City as the destination it is today, led to the rapid decline of Stockton and George Island Landing. A school bus passes an old *grocery store, once known as Fleming’s IGA, in Stockton. The town was complete with three churches, a school, a hotel, a steam sawmill, a train depot, downtown stores and shops and a nearby grist mill, though a fire that started in a general store destroyed most of the town’s business district in 1906. The name Stockton came in the late 1800s, after Methodist minister Thomas H. Stockton was once known as Sandy Hill, Maryland, and until the 1930s, it was a prosperous watermen’s village with commercial fishing operations and an economy that relied on their famous Chincoteague oysters. Driving though Stockton to George Island Landing. You just keep going until you run out of everything. But the middle of nowhere is an interesting place. ![]() Unless you’re driving south to Chincoteague and making a detour on George Island Landing Rd., the beachy boat launch spot and the little town it’s nestled in, Stockton, are easy to miss. and just north of Virginia is George Island Landing, an unincorporated community in Worcester County about an hour’s drive from Ocean City. ![]()
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