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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.
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 ...
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.
The Declaration of Independence was read to the citizens of Dover from the Green in 1776, and it was the site of the mustering of a Continental Army regiment during the Revolution. When the proximity of the British navy threatened New Castle, the state changed its capital city to Dover in 1777, and a State House was built just off the Green in ...
This map show the landscape on which local property owner Michael Patterson is hoping to build and open a campground at Sand Pond in Sanford, Maine. The area in green is the proposed footprint of ...
Landowner calls proposed campground his dream. Patterson, who also lives at Sand Pond, appeared before the city’s Site Plan Review Committee with his proposal earlier this month. In an email on ...
Cape Henlopen State Park is a Delaware state park on 5,193 acres (2,102 ha) on Cape Henlopen in Sussex County, Delaware, in the United States. William Penn made the beaches of Cape Henlopen one of the first public lands established in what has become the United States in 1682 with the declaration that Cape Henlopen would be for "the usage of the citizens of Lewes and Sussex County."
The Junction and Breakwater Trail is a 6-mile (9.7 km) long rail trail located on the southwestern side of Cape Henlopen State Park connecting Lewes and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, United States.