Georgetown - Georgetown, DE
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N 38° 41.832 W 075° 22.481
18S E 467417 N 4283242
Georgetown DE Historical Marker located on US Rt. 9
Waymark Code: WM6X02
Location: Delaware, United States
Date Posted: 07/30/2009
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Georgetown
Site of town purchased May 9, 1791 from Abraham Harris, Rowland Bevins, and Joshua Pepper, and laid out for county-seat of Sussex County in accordance with Act of General Assembly of January 29, 1791. Named Georgetown in honor of George Mitchell, for several sessions Speaker of State Senate and prominent member of commission appointed to lay out the town. Home of Governor Charles C. Stockley.
Historic Markers Commission 1933
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