Ames Hitchens Chicken Farm

Ames Hitchens Chicken Farm
Location North of Delaware Route 24, near Millsboro, Delaware
Coordinates 38°36′25″N 75°13′6″W / 38.60694°N 75.21833°W / 38.60694; -75.21833Coordinates: 38°36′25″N 75°13′6″W / 38.60694°N 75.21833°W / 38.60694; -75.21833
Area 3 acres (1.2 ha)
MPS Nanticoke Indian Community TR
NRHP Reference # 79003311[1]
Added to NRHP April 26, 1979

Ames Hitchens Chicken Farm is a historic home and farm located near Millsboro, Sussex County, Delaware. It includes a two-story, wood frame, gable front dwelling and two long, one-story, flatroofed buildings, used as chicken houses. It is 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]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Richard B. Carter (November 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Ames Hitchens Chicken Farm" (PDF).


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