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Bethany Beach: 39: Dodd Homestead: August 26, 1982 : West of Rehoboth Beach on Delaware Route 1: Rehoboth Beach: Listed as destroyed or demolished 40: Draper House: Draper House: April 22, 1982 : 200 Lakeview Ave.
Delaware is divided into three counties and contains 57 incorporated places consisting of cities, towns, and villages. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Of these, there are 10 cities, 3 villages, and 44 towns. As of 2020, the largest municipality by population in Delaware is Wilmington with 70,898 residents, while the largest by area is Dover which spans 23.668 sq ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [1] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [2]
Bethany Beach is an incorporated town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. According to the 2010 Census Bureau figures, the population of the town is 1,060; [3] however, during the summer months some 15,000 more populate the town as vacationers. [4] It is part of the Salisbury, MD-DE Metropolitan Statistical Area.
named in 1673 by Dutch Governor Anthony Colve for the town of New Castle, Delaware as an Anglicization of Nieuw Amstel. 578,592: 494 sq mi (1,279 km 2) Sussex County: 005: Georgetown: 1664: Created from Whorekill (Hoarkill) District. Formerly known as Deale County: named in 1682 by William Penn for the English county of Sussex, which was his ...
Sussex County is a county in the southern part of the U.S. state of Delaware, on the Delmarva Peninsula.As of the 2020 census, the population was 237,378, making it the state's second most populated county only behind New Castle and ahead of Kent. [1]
Lewes (/ ˈ l uː. ə s / LOO-əss) [5] is an incorporated city on the Delaware Bay in eastern Sussex County, Delaware, United States. According to the 2020 census, its population was 3,303. [6] Along with neighboring Rehoboth Beach, Lewes is one of the principal cities of Delaware's rapidly growing Cape Region.
The town was an unincorporated area between South Bethany and Ocean City, Maryland, until July 1953, when the Delaware General Assembly passed an act to incorporate the town. Local sentiment demanded incorporation to prevent the relentless high-rise development of Ocean City from creeping north into Fenwick Island.