Notable People
- Marguerite Henry, author; Marguerite, meeting with her literary agent in the 1940s at a cocktail party, became aware of the Chincoteague Pony Penning. She flew to Virginia, witnessed the 1945 penning, and wrote "Misty of Chincoteague". Despite the fictionalized account of the Beebe children keeping Misty, Marguerite actually owned Misty and kept her on her Army Trail Road estate named "Mole Meadow". Misty arrived in Wayne on November 18, 1946 after being shipped to Geneva, Illinois on the Chicago and North Western Railway train #3 from Virginia. Marguerite annually brought Misty to Wayne Elementary School and celebrated the horse's birthday with the schoolchildren. The horse was later returned to Chincoteague and died there in 1972. Misty's Corner, a small natural area on the northeast corner of Army Trail and Dunham Road, is named after Misty of Chincoteague.
- Joy Morton, founder of Morton Salt; president of Dunham Woods in the 1930s
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