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List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kent County, Delaware
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted October 25, 2024.
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- 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ↑ Custer, Jay (Fall 1990). "A Re-examination of the Island Field Site (7K-F-17), Kent County, Delaware". Archaeology of Eastern North America. 18. JSTOR 40914323.
- ↑ "Sacred Del. Indians Want Remains Returned To Burial Ground". Philadelphia Inquirer. May 17, 1986. Archived from the original on July 18, 2015.
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