Harrington (Delaware)

Kent County

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Harrington is a small town in Kent County in the U.S. state of Delaware, United States, with 3,562 inhabitants ( 2010). It is located on Highway 13 about 1,000 kilometers south of New York City and 10 km from the Atlantic Ocean. Approximately 11 % of the population can point to German -speaking ancestors.

Activities

In addition to several small museums such as the Messick Agricultural Museum and the Railroad Museum, the city has the Quillen Arena, a 80,500 square feet large covered arena with up to 2,100 fixed seats. There rodeos and exhibitions are held for the city and the surrounding area. Another attraction is the skating rink The Centre Ice Rink and the Racecourse Harrington Raceway, where may be wagered in the year to 90 days.

City ​​History

The origin of the town goes back to a Clark family who lived there in the 1730s. Around 1800, two roads led to their possession over and so the family built a small store with snacks, whose name was Clark's Corner. In 1856 was in the neighborhood of a railway line to the Delaware railroad, the Pennsylvania Railroad owned railway company. Matthew J. Clark piecewise then sold a portion of his land to new residents willing to invest and so emerged homes and shops for the surrounding farms. In 1859 the then still received Junction Station area called the name Harrington and ten years later, 1869, it was now called a city. Construction of the Junction and Breakwater railway line, the importance of strengthened Harrington and so lived in 1887 already 1,300 people in the town.