This 1877 map (from An Illustrated Atlas of Kent & Queen Anne Counties Maryland. Lake, Griffings & Stevenson. Philadelphia. 1877) shows Crumpton as it was approximately 45 years prior to the times described in the narrated tour. (Click on the map to see enlarged version.)
This webpage was created by Ran Hock, one of Art's two sons. (May 16, 2016) For further information, etc., please contact Ran at ran@onstrat.com. Ran will be particularly pleased to hear from anyone who is interested in the history of Crumpton.
Art Hock first saw Crumpton when he was in his late teens. When he first approached the town by Crumpton Lane, he was profoundly impressed by the view of the white oyster shell road at his this feet, green weeping willows above the road, the old drawbridge and the town before him, and the scenic Chester River to his left and right. He decided that what he saw was where he would like to spend the rest of his life. With brief exceptions, that is what he did.
In 1976, the year before Art's death, he recorded, in the form of an audio "guided tour", his recollections of the town as it was in the early 1920s -- all of its streets and adjacent roads, its houses, stores, and people -- who they were and what they did. He loved Crumpton. Please let him take you back to Crumpton in the 1920s by clicking the arrow on the audio controls below. (If you prefer to read rather than listen, click here)
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 Art, at the
time he describes in the tour.
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 Art around
1962, several years before he recorded the tour.
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The Steamer Corsica