Federalsburg, Delaware
Unincorporated community
Federalsburg is located in Delaware
Federalsburg
Federalsburg
Federalsburg is located in the United States
Federalsburg
Federalsburg
Coordinates: 38°49′41″N 75°25′46″W / 38.82806°N 75.42944°W / 38.82806; -75.42944
CountryUnited States
StateDelaware
CountySussex
Elevation
49 ft (15 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code302
GNIS feature ID216748[1]

Federalsburg (also known as Fleatown) is an unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. Federalsburg was located at the intersection of Old State Road and Fleatown Road, north of Ellendale.

History

The area was originally known as Fleatown and was the location of the historic Fleatown Inn from circa 1740 until it was torn down in April, 1895.[2] The community housed two taverns on the Old State Road that served stagecoaches and travelers on the road from Milford to Georgetown, but the taverns closed and the community faded after the Junction and Breakwater Railroad depot was built in Ellendale in 1866.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  2. ^ "Relics of Old Fleatown". The Evening Journal(Wilmington, Delaware). April 24, 1895.
  3. ^ "Looking Around Delaware". The Morning News(Wilmington, Delaware). December 6, 1935.
  4. ^ Conrad, Henry C. "History or The State Of Delaware". Henry C. Conrad. Retrieved October 10, 2021. On the main road from Milford to Georgetown, in the south-westerly part of the Hundred, a short distance from the present town of Ellendale, was an ancient village or cross-roads, known as Fleatown, but this name, evidently forbidding in its sound and meaning, was afterwards charged to the more dignified Federalsburg. Here existed for many years two taverns, for the refreshment of both man and beast, and though neither has existed as a publichouse for sixty years, many are the stories that have come down to this generation of the wild orgies that were held beneath their roofs, and yet it is claimed that so keen was the competition that existed between Milloway White, mine host of the one, with Samuel Warren, the keeper of the other, that the stage-coach traveler was always assured of the cleanest of beds and a bill of fare that would tempt the appetite of the most fastidious epicurean. The advent of the railroad ended Federalsburg and its taverns.


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