Geographic Center of Delaware

Geographic Center of Delaware is a Delaware historical marker in Felton, Kent County, dedicated 1997.

Kent County · dedicated 1997 · 1345 Midstate Road, Felton

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In 1989, a curious seventh grader from the Caesar Rodney School District asked where the center of Delaware was located. With the help of his teacher and the Kent County Department of Planning, it was determined that the geographic center of the state was located approximately eleven miles south of Dover in the field just south of this marker, on the Killen Farm.

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