List of ghost towns in Delaware

This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Delaware.

A destroyed Glenville, Delaware home, two weeks after Hurricane Isabel impacted Delaware (photo taken October 2, 2003)

Ghost Towns

Town name	Other name(s)	County	Established	Disestablished	Remarks
Banning		Sussex
Glenville		New Castle			Never recovered from the damage caused by Tropical Storm Henri in 2003 and was abandoned by 2004.[1]
New Market		Sussex
Owens Station		Sussex
Saint Johnstown		Sussex
Woodland		Sussex
Woodland Beach		Kent
Zwaanendael	Swaanendael, Zwaanendael Colony, Swaanendael Colony	New Castle			First settlement in the state[2]

See also

• Queen Anne's Railroad

References

1. Chadderdon, Jesse (August 19, 2005). "Ceremony marks end of Glenville community" (PDF). Brandywine Community News. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 3, 2006. Retrieved January 29, 2007.
2. Keeling, Stephen (2020). "Delaware". USA. Donna Dailey, Mike Gerrard, Taraneh Ghajar Jerven, Patricia Harris, David Lyon, Paul Oswell. New York. p. 228. ISBN 978-0-241-40863-6. OCLC 1153969073.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)