Church of the Nazarene
“Harrington Pilgrim Holiness and the Church of the Nazarene. In 1902, the Apostolic Holiness Union Church held a revival in a hall at Harrington. The crowds became so large and so enthusiastic that, fearing for the safety of the building, the meetings were transferred to the shirt factory. The church was incorporated on June 4, […]
Harrington
KC-48. Formerly known as Clark’s Corner, the roots of this community can be traced to settlement by the Clark family in the 1730’s and the subsequent establishment of an inn, tavern, store, and mill nearby. The village was little more than a country crossroads before the coming to the railroad in 1856. In that same […]
St. Paul AME Church
KC-122: Originally installed 8/5/2017. St. Paul AME was established as a congregation in 1830. Members met in congregants’ houses and public spaces before building a church. Construction of the church began in 1895 on New Street making St. Paul the last of eleven AME churches built in Kent County between 1867 and 1895. The congregation […]
Delaware State Fair
In 1919 local residents held several meetings to discuss the establishment of a fair. On January 12, 1920, the Kent and Sussex County Fair Association was organized for the purposes of “promoting and encouraging agriculture” and “giving pleasures and diversions to the inhabitants of rural communities.” The first fair was held in July, 1920. In […]
Harrington
KC-49: Originally Installed in 1992. Formerly known as Clark’s Corner, the roots of this community can be traced to settlement by the Clark family in the 1730s and the subsequent establishment of an inn, tavern, store, and mill nearby. The village was little more than a country crossroads before the coming to the railroad […]
Clarks Corner
On September 17, 1740, Thomas Clark received a Proprietary Warrant from Thomas Penn for lands “adjoining his dwelling place” which he named “Clark’s Folly.” By the 1790’s Benjamin Clark and his son Matthew had established an inn and tavern on this land at a location which became known as Clark’s Corner. A mill, store, and […]
Harrington
RG# 6060 In the 1780s, Benjamin Clark established a tavern where the road from Milford intersected with the road from Frederica. A community grew at this location, called Clarke’s Corner. When the north-south line of the Delaware Railroad was being laid out in 1856, this stagecoach stop became a junction stop on the railroad. […]
