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Milford is a city in Kent and Sussex counties in the U.S. state of Delaware.According to the 2020 census, the population of the city is 11,190 people and 4,356 households in the city.
Tourism also plays a large part of the economy, particularly in eastern Sussex County. According to SeaGrant Delaware, the Delaware Beaches generate $6.9 billion annually and over $711 million in tax revenue. [35] The average home and property price in Sussex County increased 250% in the ten years between 1995 and 2005.
Property taxes in the United States originated during colonial times. [65] By 1796, state and local governments in fourteen of the fifteen states taxed land, but only four taxed inventory (stock in trade). Delaware did not tax property, but rather the income from it.
Cedar Creek Hundred is a "hundred" located in Sussex County, Delaware that was established in 1702. The counties of Delaware were originally divided into Hundreds based on the English use of dividing up counties. On October 25, 1682, William Penn directed that Delaware be divided into hundreds for the purposes of taxation. [2]
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Following the English conquest of 1664, all of the land on the western side of the Delaware River and Delaware Bay was governed as part of the New York Colony and administered from the town of New Castle. During the brief recapture of the colony by the Dutch in 1673, additional court districts were created around Upland and Whorekill. [4]
The University of Delaware Library (2001). The Hundreds of Delaware Archived 2015-09-08 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved August 17, 2005. The Delaware Genealogical research Guide (1997). Delaware Counties and Hundreds. Retrieved August 17, 2005. The Historical Society of Delaware. Delaware Counties. Retrieved August 17, 2005.
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