Nassau is an

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in eastern Sussex County,

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, United States. It lies just off

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west of the city of

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and northeast of the town of Georgetown, the

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of Sussex County. Its elevation is 26 feet (8 m). It has a

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with the ZIP code 19969.Zip Code Lookup
/ref> Nassau, like much of central

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, is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Delaware Coast Line Railway passed through Nassau on its way to its customer in Lewes, SPI Pharma, and maintained a run-around track in Nassau to facilitate the moves to SPI Pharma, the locomotive using the run-around to then continue pushing the consist of tankcars and/or covered hoppers over the trackage between Nassau and

to the end-of-track for the Lewes Branch at SPI Pharma, just outside the main entrance to

Cape Henlopen State Park Cape Henlopen State Park is a Delaware state park on on Cape Henlopen in Sussex County, Delaware, in the United States. William Penn made the beaches of Cape Henlopen one of the first public lands established in what has become the United State ...

. The last train run was in 2017. The ROW is now a bike and pedestrian trail.

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* Unincorporated communities in Sussex County, Delaware Unincorporated communities in Delaware {{Delaware-geo-stub