Ellendale is a town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. The population was 487 at the 2020 census, an buildup of 27.8% since the 2010 census, and a 48.9% increase in the past the year 2000. It is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. Ellendale is the “Gateway to Delaware’s Resort Beaches” because it is the town located on U.S. Route 113, the resort area’s westernmost border, and Delaware Route 16, the resort area’s northernmost be next to with the eastern border being the Delaware Bay and Atlantic Ocean and the southern be neighboring to being the give leave to enter line in imitation of Maryland.

Ellendale started as a tree-plant and swamp on the divide in the midst of the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay. The swamp was the hunting grounds of the Nanticoke Indian Tribe until they were driven out by the Lenni Lenape Tribe upon the Battle Green close Chestnut Ridge, a hill upon Ellendale’s north side. The Lenape Trace, a main thoroughfare of a trail, passed through Ellendale as a Native American trade route from Pocomoke City, Maryland to Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania. With the beginning of Europeans, the Ellendale Place was a province of fur traders and hunters. Early in the 18th century, farming and timbering pushed urge on the swamp that in the same way as covered the area. The tract of land on which the town would vanguard be built was originally deeded in 1740 as “Bennett’s Pleasure”.

The “Nanticoke Swamp,” as the Ellendale Swamp was then called, was depicted as a place where criminals routinely hid from the feign in the depositions of a 1759 murder that occurred. One of the main causes visceral the business of jurisdiction as both Maryland and Delaware were in a boundary row and claimed the area. The Ellendale Swamp became a refuge for Loyalists at the grow old of the 1780 Black Camp Insurrection during the American Revolution. Harold Hancock describes the insurrection in his History of Sussex County: “With the removal of the British from Philadelphia in the spring of 1778, the number of enemy vessels in Delaware Bay decreased, and the activities of Sussex County Tories diminished. Only one supplementary insurrection in Sussex County occurred – the well-known Black Camp Rebellion of 1780. The insurrectionists were mainly from Cedar Creek and Slaughter Neck Hundred, and their headquarters were in a swamp practically six miles (10 km) north of Georgetown. Their leaders, Bartholomew Banynum (Banum) and William Dutton, had just about 400 men formed in “Associations” or militia companies. An investigator reported the causes as follows: ‘Some of these ignorant people were for opposing all law, others for establishing what they called the King’s Laws – and others for opposing the payment of taxes – but generally seem to have believed that everything to the southward of Chesapeake Bay had laid alongside their arms and submitted to the King’s Laws – and that they should very easy make Sussex County realize the same.’

Militia from Kent County dispersed the insurrectionists. Some were sent off to promote in the Continental Army, and thirty-seven were indicted for treason in the State Supreme Court. Eight were ordered to be hanged ‘by the neck but not till you be dead, for next your bowels must be taken out and burnt before your face, then your head must be severed from your body, and your body on bad terms into four Quarters, and these must be at the disposal of the Supreme Authority in the State. Fortunately this sentence which was standard for treason was not carried out, and everything the participants were pardoned by the General Assembly upon November 4, 1780.”