The Chapter Forming
On May 21, 1932, a group of ladies met at the home of Elba Wright Wheatley in the town of Hurlock in Dorchester County, Maryland, to organize this chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. They adopted the name “Nanticoke” for the chapter, naming it after the Nanticoke Indians and the river that flowed from Sussex County, Delaware to the Chesapeake Bay. In those early days, meetings were held in the homes of the members, most of whom lived in Dorchester, Talbot, or Wicomico County, Maryland, or Sussex County, Delaware.
