Ellendale State Forest Picnic Facility

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.[2]

Ellendale State Forest Picnic Facility
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Ellendale Picnic Area in 2018
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Location	U.S. Route 113, ½ mile south of Delaware Route 16 in Georgetown Hundred, Ellendale, Delaware
Coordinates	38°46′32″N 75°26′15″W
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1938–1939
Built by	Delaware State Forester, Civilian Conservation Corps
Architectural style	Rustic
NRHP reference No.	91000913[1]
Added to NRHP	July 22, 1991

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Don Duhadaway; Kimberly Sebold; Steve Del Sordo (September 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Ellendale State Forest Picnic Facility". and Accompanying six photos