Editing Kenton, Delaware (section)

==History==
The Village of Kenton is a crossroads community located at the intersection of [[Delaware Route 42|Route 42]] and [[Delaware Route 300|Route 300]] in [[Kenton Hundred]], Delaware. The village dates from the last decade of the 18th century, but did not achieve its peak until the last half of the 19th century when the [[Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad|Delaware and Maryland Railroad]] line was put through from Clayton to Maryland.<ref name=nrhpdoc>{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=83001396}} |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Kenton Historic District |author=Stephen G. Del Sordo|date=March 1983 |publisher=National Park Service}} and {{NRHP url|id=83001396|title=accompanying 33 photos|photos=y}}</ref>

Kenton was first laid out in 1796 by Philip Lewis who had begun to acquire property in the area five years before in 1791. The community was first known as Georgetown, then as Lewis Crossroads and finally, in 1806, by the name of Kenton.<ref name=nrhpdoc/>

The [[Kenton Historic District]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1983. Other sites at or near Kenton on the National Register of Historic Places are the: [[George Arnold House]], [[Aspendale (Kenton)|Aspendale]], [[Thomas Attix House]], [[J. F. Betz House]], [[Benjamin Blackiston House]], [[W. D. Burrows House]], [[Cheney Clow|Scene of Cheyney Clow's Rebellion]], [[Clark-Pratt House]], [[Cooper House (Kenton, Delaware)|Cooper House]], [[Thomas Davis House (Kenton, Delaware)|Thomas Davis House]], [[N. C. Downs House]], [[T.H. Denny House]], [[Green Mansion House (Kenton, Delaware)]], [[Robert Hill House]], [[Hoffecker-Lockwood House]], [[Alfred L. Hudson House]], [[Kenton Post Office]], [[Thomas Lamb Farm]], [[Thomas Lamb House]], [[Jefferson Lewis House]], [[Delaplane McDaniel House]], [[Poinsett House]], [[Somerville (Kenton, Delaware)|Somerville]], [[William Stevens House (Kenton, Delaware)|William Stevens House]], [[James Williams House (Kenton, Delaware)|James Williams House]], and [[Wright-Carry House]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>