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- ↑ Quesada-Embid, Mercedes (2004), "Five Hundred Years on Five Thousand Acres: Human Attitudes and Land Use at Nassawango Creek", Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture, Native Americans of the Delmarva Peninsula, Salisbury, MD, archived from the original on 2012-12-14, retrieved June 21, 2020
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed April 1, 2011
- ↑ "Nassawango Creek Preserve". The Nature Conservancy . Archived from the original on 2008-10-02. Retrieved June 21, 2020.