Pencader Hundred

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Pencader Hundred is an unincorporated subdivision of

Originally, the default boundary of Delaware and Maryland was the vague height of land between the Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay drainage basins and Pencader Hundred extended only to that point. With the running of the Mason–Dixon line in 1767, the western boundary of Delaware was established in its present location and became Pencader Hundred's western boundary. A portion of the city of Newark and the Glasgow Census Designated Place (CDP) is in Pencader Hundred.

Pencader Hundred is rural and agricultural in places, but there has been considerable residential and commercial development in the 1980s and 1990s which continues to this day. This area is among the fastest growing parts of Delaware.

Important geographical features, in addition to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Christiana River, and Back Creek, include Five Mile Run, Chestnut Hill and

Important roads include portions of Interstate 95, the Pulaski Highway (U.S. Route 40), Summit Bridge Road (Delaware Route 896), and the old main highway between Wilmington and Baltimore, now Old Baltimore Pike. A portion of the old Delaware Railroad, subsequently the Delmarva branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad runs north–south at the eastern edge. The old Newark-Delaware City railroad, now Norfolk Southern Railway's Delmarva Secondary, crosses the northeastern corner.

The Pencader Heritage Museum:

• http://www.pencaderheritage.org/
• https://thesavingdelawarehistorypodcast.buzzsprout.com/1451614/7485241-pencader-heritage