Ames Hitchens Chicken Farm
Ames Hitchens Chicken Farm | |
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Location | North of Delaware Route 24, near Millsboro, Delaware |
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Coordinates | 38°36′25″N 75°13′6″W / 38.60694°N 75.21833°WCoordinates: 38°36′25″N 75°13′6″W / 38.60694°N 75.21833°W |
Area | 3 acres (1.2 ha) |
MPS | Nanticoke Indian Community TR |
NRHP reference No. | 79003311[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 26, 1979 |
Ames Hitchens Chicken Farm was a historic home and farm located near Millsboro, Sussex County, Delaware. It included a two-story, wood frame, gable front dwelling and two long, one-story, flatroofed buildings, used as chicken houses. It was the last of these structures still standing within the Indian River Nanticoke community.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1] It is listed on the Delaware Cultural and Historic Resources GIS system as destroyed or demolished.[3]
References[]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Richard B. Carter (November 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Ames Hitchens Chicken Farm".
- ^ "Hitchens, Ames, Chicken Farm". Delaware Cultural and Historic GIS system. State of Delaware. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
Categories:
- Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware
- Houses in Sussex County, Delaware
- Nanticoke tribe
- National Register of Historic Places in Sussex County, Delaware
- Delaware Registered Historic Place stubs