Historic Georgetown Train Station

Georgetown's place on the rails goes back to the nineteenth-century lines across Sussex County that were folded into the Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Railroad. Until the late 1940s the Pennsylvania Railroad ran passenger trains through Georgetown over the former DMV line: travelers from New York or Philadelphia rode to Wilmington, changed for Harrington, and there boarded the DMV train south through Georgetown toward Berlin, Maryland — near Ocean City — and Franklin City, Virginia. The corridor never disappeared. The Delmarva Central Railroad's Indian River Subdivision, the old DMV route, still carries freight north-south through town today, and its Lewes Industrial Track branches east at Georgetown toward Cool Spring. The town's historic train station, remembered locally alongside the old Georgetown firehouse, is a surviving landmark of that passenger era.