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  2. Lums Pond State Park - Wikipedia

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    The park surrounds Lums Pond, an impoundment built by the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal on St. Georges Creek. The C&D built the pond as a source of water to fill the locks of the canal that connected the Chesapeake Bay with the Delaware River during the early 19th century. Lums Pond State Park is open for a wide variety of year-round recreation.

  3. List of Delaware state parks - Wikipedia

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    Killens Pond: Kent: 1,488 acres (602 ha) [10] 1965 The core of this park is a 66-acre millpond, but it also includes campgrounds, hiking trails, and a water park. Lums Pond: New Castle: 1,790 acres (720 ha) 1963 Lums Pond was originally used to supply water for the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal when the facility still used canal locks. It is the ...

  4. List of nature centers in Delaware - Wikipedia

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    Killens Pond Nature Center: Felton: Kent: Central: Located on the 66 acre pond in Killens Pond State Park Lums Pond State Park: Bear: New Castle: Northern: 1,790 acres, features the Whale Wallow Nature Center Redden Forest Education Center: Georgetown: Sussex: Southern: Exhibits and programs about Redden State Forest: Seaside Nature Center ...

  5. List of Delaware state wildlife areas - Wikipedia

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    Tappahanna Wildlife Area: Kent: Norman G. Wilder Wildlife Area: Kent: 1940 [12] 4,441 [12]-acre (1,797 ha) Contains some of the largest intact blocks of forest in the state wildlife area system. Named for the first Director of the Division of Fish and Wildlife. McGinnis Pond Wildlife Area: Kent: 31 [13]-acre (13 ha) A small fishing pond ...

  6. Lum's Mill House - Wikipedia

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    Lum's Mill House, also known as the Clement House, Samuel Davies House, and Lum House, is a historic home located at Lums Pond State Park, Kirkwood, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1713, and is a two-story, three-bay brick house. An original one-story, three-bay, extension was raised to two stories about 1809.

  7. Blackbird State Forest - Wikipedia

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    Blackbird Pond is located on the Meadows Tract of Blackbird State Forest in New Castle County, Delaware. Blackbird State Forest is a 6,000-acre (24 km 2) state forest of Delaware located in New Castle County and Kent County, north of Smyrna. The ten tracts of Blackbird State Forest feature 40 mi (64 km) of trails and are open to the public year ...

  8. Trap Pond State Park - Wikipedia

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    Cluster of bald cypress trees in Trap Pond State Park. The bald cypress is a wetland tree adapted to areas of calm, shallow standing water. Trap Pond State Park is the northernmost park in North America that includes cypress and bald cypress, although the actual range continues further north, ending just north of Georgetown, Delaware, in the Ellendale State Forest.

  9. Delaware Bicycle Route 1 - Wikipedia

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    It then turns east on Howell School Road, running along the northern boundary of Lums Pond State Park. The bike route then heads north on Woods Road and then east on Porter Road, entering a more suburban setting. The bike route follows Porter Road east to Delaware Route 72, where Porter Road veers to the north, passing a railroad junction.