Port Penn Historic District
Port Penn Historic District is a national historic district located at Port Penn, New Castle County, Delaware. It encompasses 48 contributing buildings and 5 contributing sites in the original eight block town plan and one block 19th century extension of Port Penn.Photo: Smallbones, CC0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Reedy Island and Ashton Historic District.
Reedy Island
Islet
Reedy Island is a small island in the middle of the channel of the Delaware River near its mouth on the Delaware Bay in the U.S. state of Delaware. It is about one mile east of Port Penn, Delaware and five miles southwest of Salem, New Jersey.
Ashton Historic District
Protected area
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Ashton Historic District is a national historic district located near Port Penn, New Castle County, Delaware, United States. It encompasses six contributing buildings associated with an original settler and his immediate descendants on early land grant in St. Ashton Historic District is situated 1¼ miles north of Port Penn Historic District.
Augustine Beach Hotel
Pub
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Augustine Beach Hotel is a historic hotel located at Augustine Beach near Port Penn, New Castle County, Delaware. It was erected about 1814, and is a two-story, six bay by three bay, brick building with a gable roof. Augustine Beach Hotel is situated 3,000 feet south of Port Penn Historic District.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port Penn and Biddles Corner.
Port Penn
Hamlet
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Port Penn is a census-designated place located in St. Georges Hundred, southern New Castle County, Delaware, United States, below the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal on the west bank of the Delaware River.
Biddles Corner
Hamlet
Biddles Corner is a location in St. George's Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, United States. Biddles Corner is at the intersection of U.S. Route 13 and Port Penn Road just east of the Biddles Corner toll plaza on the Delaware Route 1 toll road south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and the northern terminus of U.S. Route 301. Biddles Corner is situated 4 miles west of Port Penn Historic District.
Boyds Corner
Hamlet
Boyds Corner is an unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. Boyds Corner is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 13 and Delaware Route 896, north of Odessa. Boyds Corner is situated 4 miles west of Port Penn Historic District.
Port Penn Historic District
- Type: Protected area
- Description: historic district in Delaware, United States
- Categories: historic district, heritage site, and historic site
- Location: New Castle County, Delaware, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.5155° or 39° 30′ 56″ northLongitude
-75.57631° or 75° 34′ 35″ westOpen location code
87F6GC8F+5FOpenStreetMap ID
way 369204345OpenStreetMap feature
historic=heritageWikidata ID
Q14685752
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