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Camden Historic District is a national historic district located at Camden, Kent County, Delaware. It encompasses 65 contributing buildings in the crossroads community of Camden. At least 18 of the contributing buildings date between 1780 and 1820, with the remainder dated to the 19th century.
Camden is located at (39.1134458, –75.5418687 [7]According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km 2), all land.. Because of the small size of this town, and its even smaller neighbor of Wyoming, the U.S. Postal Service has jointly assigned the towns a single ZIP code, 19934, which is designated as the Camden-Wyoming ZIP code.
Camden Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house located on Delaware Route 10 (Camden Wyoming Avenue) in Camden, Kent County, Delaware.It was built in 1805, and was still in operation as a Quaker meeting house when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Delaware Federal Writers' Project; Delaware: A Guide to the First State (famous WPA guidebook 1938) Hancock, Harold. "Civil War Comes to Delaware." Civil War History 2.4 (1956): 29-46 online. Hancock, Harold Bell. The Loyalists of Revolutionary Delaware (2nd ed 1977) online free to borrow; Johnson, Amandus The Swedes in America 1638–1900: Vol.
William Brinkley (c. 1814 – January 5, 1887) was a conductor on the Underground Railroad who helped more than 100 people achieve freedom by traveling from Camden, Delaware, past the "notoriously dangerous" towns of Dover and Smyrna north to Blackbird and sometimes as far as Wilmington, which was also very dangerous for runaway enslaved people.
Buildings, sites, districts, and objects in Delaware listed on the National Register of Historic Places: - for Dover, see: Kent County - for Georgetown, see: Sussex County - for Newark, see: Northern New Castle County - for Wilmington, see: Wilmington
Camden County was formed in 1844 from part of Gloucester County, containing the City of Camden along with Delaware, Gloucester, Newton, Union, Waterford, and Washington Townships. [1] There are 37 current municipalities in Camden County, each marked with an * below: [2]
Great Geneva is a historic home located near Camden, Kent County, Delaware. It was built in about 1765, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story, brick, hall-and-parlor plan dwelling with a small frame kitchen wing.