Federalsburg, Delaware Explained

Official Name:Federalsburg, Delaware
Settlement Type:Unincorporated community
Pushpin Map:Delaware#USA
Pushpin Label:Federalsburg
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:United States
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Delaware
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Sussex
Timezone:Eastern (EST)
Utc Offset:-5
Timezone Dst:EDT
Utc Offset Dst:-4
Elevation Ft:49
Coordinates:38.8281°N -75.4294°W
Area Code:302
Blank Name:GNIS feature ID
Blank Info:216748[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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: US Board on Geographic Names. 2008-01-31. United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25.
  2. News: Relics of Old Fleatown. The Evening Journal(Wilmington, Delaware). April 24, 1895.
  3. News: Looking Around Delaware. The Morning News(Wilmington, Delaware). December 6, 1935.
  4. Web site: Conrad. Henry C.. History or The State Of Delaware. Henry C. Conrad. 10 October 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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