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Website. www.sussexcountyde.gov. 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] The county seat is Georgetown.
October 20, 2023 at 5:12 AM. A company hoping to build a solar farm in Frankford is suing the Sussex County Council after they denied an application for a conditional use permit. Frankford ...
The southern and western portions of present-day Sussex County were organized as portions of several adjacent Maryland counties and were not recognized as part of Delaware until the Mason-Dixon Survey was run in 1767. [9] In 1791, with the expansion of Sussex County to the south and west, the county seat was moved to Georgetown. [6]
Millsboro is located at 38°35′29″N75°17′29″W38.59139°N 75.29139°W (38.5915023, –75.2913018). 7 The town is approximately 20 miles from the Delaware and Maryland beaches - as well as Salisbury, Maryland - and around 10 miles from the Maryland state line.
The following properties are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted August 16, 2024. [1]
Managed by. Delaware Department of Correction. The Sussex Correctional Institution (SCI) is located in unincorporated Sussex County, Delaware, [1] near Georgetown. Opened in 1931, SCI, a part of the Delaware Department of Correction, is one of Delaware's oldest correctional facilities. SCI houses maximum, medium, and minimum security inmates.
Jimtown was from early on an African-American community. In the early 20th century, the site was the location of a "colored" schoolhouse [4] during an era when segregation was still legal in Delaware. Jimtown made state headlines in 1915, during the prohibition era, when twelve Jimtown residents were arrested in state raids on alcoholic ...
Added to NRHP. June 4, 1973. Sussex County Courthouse and the Circle is a historic courthouse located at The Circle in Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware. It was designed by noted Philadelphia architect William Strickland (1788–1854) and built between 1837 and 1840. It is a two-story, brick structure with a brick tower over the entrance hall.