SC-5: originally installed in 1966.

Town laid out, 1799. Then called “Hooper’s Landing.” First incorporated 1865. Seaford Academy located here from 1819 until some time before the Civil War. Rev. Leonidas Polk, later Episcopal Bishop and Major General in the Confederate Army was a student at Academy. Home of William H. Ross, thirty-seventh Governor of Delaware.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Location: Just east of intersection of Middleford Rd and Route 13 North Seaford, DE 19973