Owens Station, Delaware was a community in

Delaware Delaware ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic states, South Atlantic regions of the United States. It borders Maryland to its south and west, Pennsylvania to its north, New Jersey ...

, U.S.A.

History

Owens station was a stop on the now defunct Queen Anne's Railroad line between Ellendale and Greenwood. After the railroad closed down and the tracks were removed, all property owned by the railroad was returned to its previous landowners and several small communities built around the stops disappeared. Some houses still exist from the town, at the intersection of Beach Highway and Owens Rd, but most of the former town has disappeared. The Owens Station Hunting Preserve takes its name from the former rail community. The remains of the settlement, now called simply Owens, 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 ...

located on

Delaware Route 16 Delaware Route 16 (DE 16) is an east-west state highway in Delaware, mainly across northern Sussex County, Delaware, Sussex County, with a small portion near the Maryland border in extreme southwestern Kent County, Delaware, Kent Cou ...

east of Greenwood. Owens' population was 18 in 1900, and was 62 in 1925.

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