Thompson's Loss and Gain Site

The Thompson's Loss and Gain Site is a colonial-era historic site near Rehoboth Beach in Sussex County, Delaware. It is an archaeological site encompassing a tenant farm that was in active use from about 1720 to 1780. The site includes the site of a house, root cellar, and well.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]

Thompson's Loss and Gain Site
Nearest cityRehoboth Beach, Delaware
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
NRHP reference No.78000925[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 13, 1978

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Marginal Farms on the Edge of Town: Final Archaeological Investigations at the Moore-Taylor, Benjamin Wynn (Lewis-E), and Wilson-Lewis Farmsteads, State Route 1 Corridor, Kent County, Delaware: Intersite Analysis" (PDF). Delaware Department of Transportation. Retrieved June 13, 2014.