Isaac Harmon Farmhouse

Isaac Harmon Farmhouse
Location Road 312A, near Millsboro, Delaware
Coordinates 38°35′56″N 75°11′55″W / 38.59889°N 75.19861°W / 38.59889; -75.19861Coordinates: 38°35′56″N 75°11′55″W / 38.59889°N 75.19861°W / 38.59889; -75.19861
Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built c. 1845 (1845)
MPS Nanticoke Indian Community TR
NRHP Reference # 79003315[1]
Added to NRHP April 26, 1979

Isaac Harmon Farmhouse is a historic farmhouse located near Millsboro, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built about 1845, and is a two-story, four bay, single pile, wood frame dwelling clad in clapboard. It has a gable roof pierced by interior end brick chimneys. It was one of the first properties in the Indian River community to be owned by an Indian family. Isaac Harmon was one of the leaders in the Nanticoke separatist movement of the 1880s.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. unknown (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Isaac Harmon Farmhouse" (PDF).


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