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Frederica is a town in Kent County, Delaware, United States.It is part of the Dover metropolitan area.The population was 1,073 in 2020. [3] ILC Dover, the company which manufactured the spacesuits for the Apollo and Skylab astronauts of the 1960s and 1970s, along with fabricating the suit component of the Space Shuttle's Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), is located nearby.
The Frederica Historic District is a national historic district located at Frederica, Kent County, Delaware. It encompasses 118 contributing buildings in the town of Frederica. The oldest buildings date to the middle of the 18th century.
October 10, 1972 (North of Frederica on Delaware Route 1: Frederica: 20: Belmont Hall: Belmont Hall: December 16, 1971 (217 Smyrna-Leipsic Rd. Smyrna: 21: Bethel Methodist Protestant Church
According to the 2016 United States Census estimate, Delaware is the 6th least populous state with 989,948 inhabitants but the 2nd smallest by land area spanning 1,948.54 square miles (5,046.7 km 2) of land. [1] Delaware is divided into three counties and contains 57 incorporated places consisting of cities, towns, and villages.
Delaware had a high proportion of free blacks among its African-American population by the early 19th century. The new courthouse In the 1960s, Dover was a center of manufacturing of spacesuits worn by NASA astronauts in the Apollo moon flights by ILC Dover , now based in the small town of Frederica .
Mordington, also known as the Douqlass House, is a historic home located near Frederica, Kent County, Delaware.It dates to about 1785, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, three-bay, double-pile plan, brick dwelling in the Georgian-style.
Barratt Hall, also known as the Philip Barratt House, is a historic home located near Frederica, Kent County, Delaware.It dates to the mid-18th century, and is a two-story, three-bay, center-hall plan brick dwelling in the Georgian-style.
Barratt's Chapel is a chapel located to the north of Frederica in Kent County, Delaware. It was built in 1780 on land donated by Philip Barratt, owner of Barratt Hall, and a prominent local landowner and political figure. Barratt, who had recently become a Methodist, wanted to build a center for the growing Methodist movement in Delaware.