St. George's Hundred, Delaware
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St. Georges Hundred is an unincorporated subdivision of
Boundaries and formation
St. Georges Hundred is that portion 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 St. Georges 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 a portion of St. Georges Hundred's western boundary. The towns of Middletown and Odessa and the community of Port Penn are in St. Georges Hundred.[1]
Development
St. Georges 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.
Geography
Important geographical features, in addition to the
Transportation
Important roads include portions of the Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway (Delaware Route 1), the DuPont Highway (U.S. Route 13), Levels Road, U.S. Route 301, Summit Bridge Road and Boyd's Corner Road (Delaware Route 896), Augustine Beach Road and Taylor's Bridge Road (Delaware Route 9). A portion of the old Delaware Railroad, subsequently the Delmarva branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, now the Delmarva Central Railroad's Delmarva Subdivision, runs north–south through Middletown.
References
- ^ "St. George's Hundred". wikimapia.org. Retrieved 2023-12-07.