Ames Hitchens Chicken Farm

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 Indian Association 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

  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.