Hares Corner, Delaware

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Hares Corner, Delaware
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 39°39′55″N75°36′15″W / 39.66528°N 75.60417°W / 39.66528; -75.60417
Country United States
State Delaware
County New Castle
Elevation
66 ft (20 m)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code 302
GNIS feature ID216108 [1]

Hares Corner is an unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. Hares Corner is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 13/U.S. Route 40 and Delaware Route 273, west of New Castle and immediately south of Wilmington Airport. [2]

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History

The community was once a stagecoach stop and a cattle market. [3] Hares Corner was home to the Green Tree Inn, which was demolished in 1931 to allow US 13 to be widened to a divided highway. [4]

The Hares Corner post office operated from 1863 to 1891. [5] According to historian Harvey Cochran Bounds, the 1890 opening of the post office at nearby Farnhurst "had more than a little to do" with the closure of the Hares Corner post office. [6] In 1890, Hares Corner's population was 50. [7] In the 1920s, Hares Corner was the site of fox hunting; these events were hosted by the Hares Corner Community Club. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Hares Corner". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ Delaware Department of Transportation (2008). Delaware Official Transportation Map (PDF) (Map). Dover: Delaware Department of Transportation.
  3. ↑ "The backstory on odd Delaware place names".
  4. ↑ Federal Writers' Project (1938). The ocean highway: New Brunswick, New Jersey to Jacksonville, Florida. American Guide Series. New York: Modern Age Books. ISBN   9780403022144 . Retrieved April 10, 2009.
  5. ↑ "Post Offices". www.postalhistory.com. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  6. ↑ Bounds, Harvey Cochran (1938). A Postal History of Delaware. Press of Kells. p. 51.
  7. ↑ Cram, George Franklin (1890). Cram's Universal Atlas: Geographical, Astronomical and Historical, Containing a Complete Series of Maps of Modern Geography, Illustrated by Numerous Views and Charts ; the Whole Supplemented with Valuable Statistics, Diagrams, and a Complete Gazetteer of the United States. G.F. Cram. p. 356.
  8. ↑ "Hare's Corner Dogs Get Fox in River". Wilmington Evening Journal. February 1, 1923. p. 23. Retrieved August 19, 2021.


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