Laurel, Delaware

Laurel Historic District is a national historic district located at Laurel, Sussex County, Delaware. The district includes 701 contributing buildings, 5 contributing sites, 4 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Laurel. It includes residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings dated from the late-18th century to the 1930s. The residential buildings are mostly frame structures in the "I-house" plan. Most commercial buildings re brick structure and date to the early-20th century. Notable non-residential buildings include the Dashiell Building, Sussex Trust Building, Mellon Bank Building, Laurel Railroad Station (c. 1905), firehouse (1937), the original water company building, more recent town water buildings, U.S. Post Office (1935), Centenary Methodist Church, St. Phillip's Episcopal Church the Methodist Protestant Church, and the I.O.O.F. Meeting Hall. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Laurel High School is a public high school in Laurel, Delaware, a community in Sussex County. It is a part of the Laurel School District. In addition to Laurel the school district serves Bethel.

Spring Garden, also known as the Lewis Homestead, is a historic home located near Laurel, Sussex County, Delaware. It is an L-shaped, brick-and-frame dwelling built in three sections over a 100-year period. The large brick main core was built about 1782, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, double-pile, center-hall plan structure with a three-bay facade in the Federal style. The interior has Georgian style details. It has a summer kitchen addition built about 1860, and it is a 1+1⁄2-story, single-pile structure added to the rear of the main core. About 1880, a large, two-story, frame addition was built onto the west gable end of the original brick section. It is in the Victorian Gothic style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

North Laurel is a former town in Sussex County, Delaware. It was merged with the town of Laurel on April 13, 1929.

Graham Branch is a 2.84 mi (4.57 km) long 2nd order tributary to Tubbs Branch in Sussex County, Delaware.

Little Creek is a 3.63 mi (5.84 km) long 3rd order tributary to Broad Creek in Sussex County, Delaware.

Little Creek Hundred is a hundred in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. Little Creek Hundred was formed in 1774 from Somerset County, Maryland. Its primary community is Laurel. Little Creek Hundred is one of two Delaware hundreds of the name, the other being Little Creek Hundred in Kent County.

Horseys Pond is a freshwater reservoir in Laurel, Delaware. It is located to the south of Laurel, with Little Creek linking the pond to the Broad Creek Hundred.

James Branch is a 10.97 mi (17.65 km) long tributary to Records Pond (Broad Creek) that rises in northern Wicomico County, Maryland and flows north into Sussex County, Delaware. James Branch is listed as a state-protected paddling trail by Delaware.

Laurel Airport (FAA LID: N06) is a public-use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) southwest of the central business district of Laurel, a city in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. It is privately owned by Dest Inc. It is currently referred to as Laurel Airport by both the Federal Aviation Administration and Delaware Department of Transportation. However, it had been renamed Western Sussex Airport-Booth Field by a prior owner known as Aerospace House Inc.

Broad Creek is an unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. Broad Creek is 2 miles (3.2 km) north-northwest of Laurel. Broad Creek is named after the river of that name that drains the Bald Cypress swamps of both Trap Pond and Trussum Pond.

Chipman's Mill was located near Laurel, Delaware, and is now the name of a Delaware State Park which encompasses the mill pond, including a boat ramp for fishing (now the primary activity). Chipman's Mill functioned into the late 1940s. Arson destroyed the structures in November 1986. The relatively remote area had been one of the last remaining residences of the Lenni Lenape, who left Delaware and the Chipman's Pond area in 1748. Settlers soon came, attracted by the available timber and water power. Christ Church was built nearby, which still survives. The destroyed mill had two structures. In 1884, Joseph Chipman had built a one-story mill over the millrace (which survives), which contained turbines and millstones. The wooden superstructure featured mortise and tenon joinery. An adjoining two story section was moved to the site from elsewhere.