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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CZ5_slave-quarter_Seaford-DE.html
This is the only documented log slave quarter still in existence in Delaware. This 1 ½ story framed quarter was 24' by 16' with a porch. The interior walls were lath and plaster.
Governor Ross had as many as fourteen slaves. Some probably …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CYB_family-home-of-william-h-h-ross_Seaford-DE.html
William Henry Harrison Ross Delaware's 27th andyoungest governor from1851 - 1855
Following his term as governor, Ross began construction of this Italian Villa style house. This was a popular 19th century architectural style.
This structure e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BGL_macedonia-a-m-e-church_Seaford-DE.html
The origin of this congregation can be traced to the organization of a local society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church circa 1852. Desiring a permanent place of worship, the group obtained the old Bochim's Meeting House and moved it to a l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19SA_the-cannon-johnson-kidnapping-gang_Seaford-DE.html
In the early 1800s the headquarters of the notorious Cannon/Johnson Kidnapping Gang was located close to this site. After the importation of African slaves was legally outlawed in 1808, demand for slave labor in the expanding states of the Deep So…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15MC_st-johns-united-methodist-church_Seaford-DE.html
In the late 18th century, Francis Asbury and other pioneers of American Methodism traveled throughout this area bringing the message of their faith to the people. A local Methodist Society was organized at that time, first meeting in the homes of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15FR_hearns-pond_Seaford-DE.html
This body of water was created in 1816, when a grist mill was established on Clear Brook Branchat this location by Nathaniel Ross. Known byvarious names, most notebly those of two earlyowners, William Cannon and William Ross, themill was destroyed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQBQ_hardscrabble_Seaford-DE.html
The term "Hardscrabble" was created during the 1700s when two men of Irish extraction engaged in a rough fight where Sussex 473 and 446 cross. The skirmish ended in a stalemate, even when the first structured store was built in 1895 by Garrison Me…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPVM_oak-grove-crownstone_Seaford-DE.html
Charged with marking the long-disputed boundaries of the colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania (including the "Three Lower Counties" of Delaware), English astronomers Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon landed in America on November 15, 1763. The fol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPVL_concord-united-methodist-church_Seaford-DE.html
On August 24, 1804, the trustees of the Concord Methodist Meeting House purchased this site from Robert Boyce and his wife Nancy. Part of a larger tract known as "New Ireland," the land consisted of approximately three-eighths of an acre on which …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPVK_pilot-town_Seaford-DE.html
Pilot Town is the section of the Hamlet of Concord where many free black families have lived in harmony with the white families since around 1765. It was so named for the many Negro pilots who lived in the area and piloted vessels down the Nantico…