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DE A giant squatting island tiki god can be seen outside a travel agency north of Smyrna on Route 13.DE
DE BIG AMISH: A wayward Amish man welcomes travelers to the Country Pantry Restaurant on US 13 in Dover, DE
DE, Fountain of Youth, Lewes DE
DE Beloved Merman of Delaware:Zwaanendael Museum, Lewes,DE
DE Large wooden Ark, Route 13 Seaford, DE Actually a church.
DE Old Ditch, the oldest ditch in the original 13 colonies, DE
DE Places with guts, Broad Gut, Indian Gut, Old Women Gut, Joes Gut, Wire Gut, Crooked Gut, Quarter Gut, Head of Gut, DE
DE Sockorockets Ditch, the only landfuill for space debry? You heard it here! DE
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DE Appoquinmink Friends Meeting House, Odessa,DE More Info
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| Bethany
Beach - Addy-Sea Inn - Rooms 1, 6 11 are haunted by different ghosts. Dover - Dickinson Mansion - John Dickinson's ghost haunts this house, recordings of sounds have been made here also. New Castle - David Finney Inn - third floor is haunted by unknown ghost New Castle - Amstel House - haunted by unknown spirit that also haunts his son's house down the street. Wilmington - Rockwood Mansion -
balls of light and strange sounds are observed here. |
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| The Appoquinimink Friends
Meetings House, erected in 1783, is located in a community where a strong Quaker
antislavery movement existed. The Meeting House is associated with John Hunn (1818-1894)
and John Alston (1794-1874), two Underground Railroad "station masters" who were
members of the congregation. Referenced in William Still's 1872 book The Underground
Railroad, John Hunn gained notoriety by helping several fugitive slaves, who were in
the care of freedman and famous "conductor" Samuel Burris, escape through
Delaware and into Pennsylvania to freedom in 1844. Turned in to local law officials by
neighbors who lived near Hunn, the two men were sued by the owners of the fugitive slaves
for loss of property under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793; Hunn was fined $2,500, which
forced him to sell his farm, and Burris was sentenced back into slavery, but was later
purchased from the auction block by a Philadelphia antislavery activist. John Alston,
another member of Appoquinimink involved in the Underground Railroad, worked with his
cousin, John Hunn, in helping fugitive slaves escape to freedom. An 1841 entry in Alston's
diary closes with: "O Lord...enable me to keep my heart and house open to receive thy
servants that they may rest in their travels that this house that thou has enabled me to
build may be holy dictates unto thee of the pilgrim's rest." Alston was the treasurer
of the Appoquinimink Meeting and was the weekly caretaker of the building until his death
in 1874.
Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House is located in Odessa, Delaware on Main Street,
just northeast of Dupont Parkway. It is open to the public. |
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