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Ellendale State Forest Picnic Facility

Buildings and structures completed in 1939Buildings and structures in Sussex County, DelawareDelaware Registered Historic Place stubsNational Register of Historic Places in Sussex County, DelawarePark buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware
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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 a fountain.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

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Ellendale State Forest Picnic Facility
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Dupont Boulevard
19941
Delaware, United States
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