Staats-Dukes Farm
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2010-02-26T20:24:35Z
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The Dukes Farm is located north of Cedar Swamp Road, approximately one mile east of Taylors Bridge in Blackbird
Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. The 420 acre farm is bounded by the estuaries of the Blackbird Creek to the west and north and by those of the Delaware River to the
east. The farm complex lies at the end of an unpaved lane, circa 1500 feet north of Cedar Swamp Road. The complex consists of a farmhouse and five outbuilding: a modern
garage, a boat/machine shed with an attached kennel, a granarylcorn crib, a modern machine shed, and a dairy barn with an attached sheeplmachine shed.
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New Castle County, Delaware, Blackbird Hundred, Delaware, Taylors Bridge Vicinity, Delaware, Granary, Corn crib, Dairy barn, Frame dwelling, c. 1850, date of construction