Editing Farmington, Delaware (section)

==History==
Farmington was originally settled as Flatiron in 1855 when the railroad built a station at a crossroads at this location. A [[post office]] was established in 1858. The town was the location of the Farmington Academy from 1868 to 1878. Farmington had 300 people in the 1880s and was home to canning and fruit-evaporating plants.<ref name=fwp>{{cite book |author=Federal Writers' Project |author-link=Federal Writers' Project |title=The ocean highway: New Brunswick, New Jersey to Jacksonville, Florida|url=https://archive.org/stream/oceanhighwaynewb00federich/oceanhighwaynewb00federich_djvu.txt |access-date=April 10, 2009 | year=1938 |publisher=Modern Age Books |location=[[New York City|New York]]|series=American Guide Series|isbn=978-0-403-02214-4 }}</ref> The [[Tharp House (Farmington, Delaware)|Tharp House]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1973.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> Farmington formerly had a post office with a [[ZIP code]] of 19942; however, the post office closed and the ZIP code was discontinued on January 13, 1996.<ref>{{cite web|title=Postmaster Finder - Post Offices by ZIP Code|url=http://webpmt.usps.gov/pmt008.cfm|publisher=[[United States Postal Service]]|accessdate=December 19, 2015|archive-date=April 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428153255/https://webpmt.usps.gov/pmt008.cfm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Farmington is currently served by the [[Greenwood, Delaware|Greenwood]] post office with a ZIP code of 19950.