Short Homestead, also known as the James Baxter House, is a historic home and farm located near Georgetown,

Sussex County, Delaware Sussex County is located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Delaware, on the Delmarva Peninsula. As of the 2020 census, the population was 237,378. The county seat is Georgetown. The first European settlement in the state of Delaware w ...

. The earlier section is dated to the mid-18th century, and is a two-story, three-bay, double-pile brick structure. A two-story, two-bay frame wing was built in the mid-19th century. Both sections have gable roofs. The house was once the center of a 500-acre plantation. The house was "modernized" in the late-19th century. and ' The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

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