Richards Historic District is a national

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located in

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. The district includes 21 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site encompassing portions of three separate farms with three groupings of farm buildings. The farms are Poplar Level Farm, Locust Grove Farm, and Middle Space Farm. The three houses in the district were constructed by various members of the Richards family between 1758 and 1868. The earliest structure in the district is Poplar Level, the main section of which was built about 1758 by John Richards. and ' It was added to the

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in 1983.

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Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Historic districts in Sussex County, Delaware National Register of Historic Places in Sussex County, Delaware {{Delaware-NRHP-stub