The town was never incorporated, but streets were laid out and several businesses and residences came, surrounding the current Delmarva Central Railroad line.

[citation needed] In the 2020 United States census, Lincoln was added as a census-designated place.

"[6] Early mention of the area include the Library of Congress which has record of a newspaper, The Lincoln Herald, published in the community beginning in October 1865 and the paper was later mentioned in The New York Times in the March 2, 1866 issue.

[7] The Evening Telegraph makes mention of a fundraising effort in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to erect a church in Lincoln in the May 29, 1869 issue.

Colonel Small established a lumber and planing mill in the community, but it was destroyed by fire on January 2, 1889.