Ellendale State Forest Picnic Facility

US 113, 1/2 mi. S of DE 16, Georgetown Hundred, Ellendale, Delaware. County/parish: Sussex.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 22, 1991. NRIS 91000913.

3 contributing buildings. 3 contributing structures.

Also known as:

  • CCC Picnic Area
  • S-8151

From Wikipedia:

Ellendale State Forest Picnic Facility

Ellendale State Forest Picnic Facility, also known as CCC Picnic Area/S-8151, is a historic picnic facility located at Ellendale, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1938-1939 by the Civilian Conservation Corps and designed to serve as a road-side rest facility for tourists and long-distance travelers on the DuPont Boulevard. It consists of three buildings and three structures. The largest of these is a 20 feet, 10 inch, square pyramidal-roofed log pavilion. Also on the property are two wood gable-roofed picnic tables shelters, a fieldstone trash pit, fieldstone fireplace hearth, and foundation and water pipe for a fountain.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75324675

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