Little Heaven, Delaware
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Little Heaven is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in Kent County,
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, United States. Its elevation is and its position . It is north of Frederica at the interchange between
Delaware Route 1 Delaware Route 1 (DE 1) is the longest numbered state highway in the U.S. state of Delaware. The route runs from the Maryland state line in Fenwick Island, Delaware, Fenwick Island, Sussex County, Delaware, Sussex County, where the ...
and Bowers Beach Road/Clapham Road. It originated in a group of cabins built by local farmer Jahu Reed in the 1870s for the Irish workers he employed in his orchards. The Jehu Reed House was listed on the
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in 1973.


Notable person

*Traves Brownlee,
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of the American Party in the
1984 United States presidential election Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Republican president Ronald Reagan and his running mate, incumbent vice president George H. W. Bush, were reelected to a second term in a landslide. They def ...


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