Gumboro Hundred

Gumboro Hundred is a Delaware historical marker in Frankford, Sussex County, dedicated 1932.

Sussex County · dedicated 1932 · 34216 Millsboro Highway (Marker is approx 400 ft north of intersection with RD 413. Marker sits on west side of Millsboro Highway), Frankford

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Created 1873 by Act of General Assembly from the southern parts of Broad Creek and Dagsboro Hundreds.

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under a mile from where William Gabby lived in the 1760s

what this marker records spans 1777 to 1789, overlapping William Gabby's years here

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