Shortly after its establishment in the late 1880s, George W. Brock was appointed postmaster of the new Eastport post office, The Sun reported July 30, 1887.

Located in the business heart of the community on what was then Main Street, the area surrounding the post office was the hub of social activity until after World War II, encircled by two barbershops, a shoe repair store, three bars, two grocery stores and a police station.

Although the name of the waterfront town had changed from Horne Point, Horne Point Village and Severn City since colonists first arrived there in 1665, the name Eastport stuck when it was used on the application for the post office in the late 1880s.

The post office came at a time when the glass-blowing industry was booming in Eastport. Established in 1885, the Annapolis Glass Works, historians said, was the earliest major nonmaritime business founded on the peninsula and employed much of the Eastport population.

[Source: Paul McCardell, Sun library researcher]