Built 1938-1939 NRHP Reference # 91000913 Added to NRHP 22 July 1991 | Architectural style Other, Rustic Area 4,000 m² | |
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Location U.S. Route 113, ½ mile south of Delaware Route 16 in Georgetown Hundred, Ellendale, Delaware Built by Delaware State Forester, Civilian Conservation Corps | ||
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 fountain.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
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