Jimtown, Delaware | |
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  Jimtown  Jimtown | |
| Coordinates: 38°43′55″N75°11′12″W / 38.73194°N 75.18667°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Delaware |
| County | Sussex |
| Elevation | 20 ft (6 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| Area code | 302 |
| GNIS feature ID | 216126 [1] |
Jimtown is an unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States.
Jimtown is located on Delaware Route 23 southwest of Lewes. It is along Jimtown Road, near Goslee Creek. [2] Less than a mile south of Jimtown is Goslee Mill Pond.
The area around Jimtown was settled by whites as early as the 1690s when the court at either Lewes or Sussex County [lower-alpha 1] granted a petitioner land on Bundick's Branch to build a mill, so long as he "build the mill within fifteen months and [...] attend and minde the same and grind the grain well and in due course as it is brought thither without respect of persons, at the eighth part tolle for wheat and the sixth part tolle for Indian corne." [3] Two years later, Jonathan Bailey built a mill on this stream. [3]
However, Scharf's History of Delaware states that no village was in this part of Delaware as late as 1888. [3]
Jimtown was from early on an African-American community. In the early 20th century, the site was the location of a "colored" schoolhouse [4] during an era when segregation was still legal in Delaware.
Jimtown made state headlines in 1915, during the prohibition era, when twelve Jimtown residents were arrested in state raids on alcoholic establishments. Most of those arrested were African-Americans. [5]
Some residents in Jimtown clashed with the Delaware Department of Transportation and real estate developers in 2004 regarding upgrades to Jimtown Road. Residents stated that the department's plans to upgrade only a portion of the road clashed with the plan to build 650 houses adjacent to the historic community. [2] Residents in Jimtown clashed again with the owners of the neighboring subdivision of Coastal Club near Lewes in 2014 over the issue of streetlights, sidewalks, and sewer connections in the community; the plan at that time was to offer Jimtown residents sewer and streetlights connecting to the new subdivision. [6] In 2018, a 49-lot subdivision adjacent to Jimtown, named Marine, was approved by Sussex County officials. [7]
Sussex County is located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Delaware, on the Delmarva Peninsula. As of the 2020 census, the population was 237,378, making it the state's second most populated county only behind New Castle and ahead of Kent. The county seat is Georgetown.
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Dewey Beach is an incorporated coastal town in eastern Sussex County, Delaware, United States. According to the 2010 census, the population of the town is 341, an increase of 13.3% over the previous decade. It is part of the rapidly growing Cape Region and lies within the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 2011, the NRDC awarded Dewey Beach with a 5-Star rating in water quality. This award was given only to 12 other locations, one being neighboring Rehoboth Beach. Out of the 30 states with coastline, the Delaware Beaches ranked number 1 in water quality in 2011.
Georgetown is a town and the county seat of Sussex County, Delaware, United States. According to the 2010 census, the population of the town is 6,422, an increase of 38.3% over the previous decade.
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Daniel Rodney was an American merchant and politician from Lewes in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, and later the National Republican Party, who served as Governor of Delaware, U. S. Representative from Delaware and U.S. Senator from Delaware.
David Hall was an American lawyer and politician from Lewes, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and member of the Democratic-Republican Party, who served as Governor of Delaware.
Joseph Haslet was an American planter and politician from Cedar Creek Village in Cedar Creek Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, who served twice as Governor of Delaware.
Samuel Paynter was an American merchant and politician from Drawbridge, in Broadkill Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as Governor of Delaware.
Lincoln is an unincorporated community in northern Sussex County, Delaware, United States. It is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. The planner who originally laid out the town planned for it to become the county seat. Lincoln lies on U.S. Route 113 between Ellendale and Milford. The town was never incorporated, but streets were laid out and several businesses and residences came, surrounding the current Delmarva Central Railroad line. Lincoln was formerly the headquarters of the Delaware Coast Line Railroad.
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The Cape Henlopen Region, or the Cape Region, is a region in Sussex County, in southern Delaware, on the Delmarva Peninsula. The region is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. The region takes its name from Cape Henlopen, as does the Cape Henlopen School District and Cape Henlopen State Park. Much of the region's populated areas are found along the Delaware Bay, Rehoboth Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Northern and western parts of the Cape Region are rural areas dominated by farmland and wetlands. The area is often referred to as the Delaware Beaches.
The Edward C. Knight, also known as the E. C. Knight, was a 19th-century pilot boat built by the C. & R. Poillon shipyard in 1875 for the Delaware River Pilots. She was the finest and fastest pilot-boat belonging to the Philadelphia port. She was sold to the Brunswick Pilots' Association of Georgia in 1898.
The Pilots' Association For The Bay & River Delaware is the official maritime pilot group for the Delaware Bay and Delaware River. The association is one of the oldest state pilot organizations in the nation that was founded in 1896. Delaware Bay Pilots are licensed maritime pilots for the Delaware Bay and River. Delaware pilots guide oceangoing vessels, passenger liners, freighters and tankers in and out of the harbor. The Delaware Bay is bordered inland by the States of New Jersey and Delaware, and the Delaware Capes, Cape Henlopen to the south and Cape May to the north, on the Atlantic Ocean.
The Enoch Turley was a 19th-century Pennsylvania pilot schooner built in 1842 in Baltimore, Maryland. In the 1880s she was caught up in the competition and rivalry between New Jersey and Pennsylvania pilots and the Delaware pilots. She survived the Great Blizzard of 1888, but was swept away in 1889, with all hands lost, during a powerful gale.
The Breakwater Light, later known as The Delaware Pilot, was an American weekly newspaper based in Lewes, Delaware, United States. It was founded in 1871 by I. H. D. Knowles as the first newspaper in the town's history, and ran under the name Breakwater Light for twenty years. It was sold to future state governor Ebe W. Tunnell in 1891, who renamed it to the Delaware Pilot. It continued under this name before suspending operations in 1920, later returning in 1938 for a few years before disestablishing permanently in c. 1942.
Armwell Long was an American military officer and politician. He served in the Revolutionary War, being close friends with George Washington, was one of Delaware's commanding lieutenant colonels during the War of 1812, and served six terms in the Delaware General Assembly as a member of the House of Representatives.
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