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The Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge is a 15,978-acre (64.66 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located along the eastern coast of Kent County, Delaware, United States, on Delaware Bay. It was established on March 16, 1937, as a refuge and breeding ground for migratory and wintering waterfowl along the Atlantic Flyway.
The Allee House is a historic home located on the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, near Dutch Neck Crossroads, overlooking the fields and marshes of Kent County, Delaware. It is believed to have been built in about 1753 by Abraham Allee, Sr., son of John Allee, who purchased the land in 1706 and 1711.
Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge: Kent County: 1937 16,251 acres (65.77 km 2) [69] Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge: Sussex County: 1963 10,144 acres (41.05 km ...
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The byway provides access to several natural and historical sites and towns along the Delaware Bay and inland rivers, including Milton, the Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Slaughter Beach, Milford, South Bowers, Bowers Beach, the John Dickinson Plantation and First State Heritage Park in Dover, the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge ...
The Simons River is a short river in Delaware in the United States, approximately 3 mi (5 km) long.It drains a wetlands area on the southern shore of Delaware Bay.. It is formed in Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge approximately 5 mi (8 km) northwest of Dover, Delaware, by the confluence of Herring Branch and Green Creek.
The Ship John Shoal Light marks the north side of the ship channel in Delaware Bay on the east coast of the United States, near the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge.Its cast iron superstructure was exhibited at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In 2013, the infectious agent of American tick bite fever, Rickettsia parkeri was detected in a female A. maculatum collected at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, near Smyrna, Delaware, providing the first evidence of association of this pathogen of humans with this species of tick in the state. [10]