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Ames Hitchens Chicken Farm

Coordinates: 38°36′25″N 75°13′6″W / 38.60694°N 75.21833°W / 38.60694; -75.21833
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Ames Hitchens Chicken Farm
Ames Hitchens Chicken Farm is located in Delaware
Ames Hitchens Chicken Farm
Ames Hitchens Chicken Farm is located in the United States
Ames Hitchens Chicken Farm
LocationNorth of Delaware Route 24, near Millsboro, Delaware
Coordinates38°36′25″N 75°13′6″W / 38.60694°N 75.21833°W / 38.60694; -75.21833
Area3 acres (1.2 ha)
MPSNanticoke Indian Community TR
NRHP reference No.79003311[1]
Added to NRHPApril 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

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Richard B. Carter (November 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Ames Hitchens Chicken Farm".
  3. ^ "Hitchens, Ames, Chicken Farm". Delaware Cultural and Historic GIS system. State of Delaware. Retrieved May 18, 2018.