The Nanticoke Indian Tribe established Indian Mission School on this site in the 1920s. Tribal members built and operated a one-room school to educate Nanticoke students in grades 1-8. In 1948, the original wood-framed structure burned in a fire and was replaced with a stuccoed masonry building. Students continued attending the school through the 1961-1962 school year. Some graduates attended the Haskell Institute, an Indian boarding school, in Lawrence, Kansas. After the Indian Mission School closed, the building became the Nanticoke Indian Tribal Center, the administrative and cultural center of the Nanticoke Indian Association.
SC-283: Installed in 2021.
27073 John J Williams Highway, Millsboro, DE 19966
Related Topics: Haskell Institute, Historical Markers, Indian Mission School, Nanticoke Indian Association, Nanticoke Indian Powwow, Nanticoke Indian Tribal Center, Nanticoke Indian Tripe
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