Frederica is a town in Kent County, Delaware, United States. It is share of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 774 at the 2010 census. ILC Dover, the company which manufactured the spacesuits for the Apollo and Skylab astronauts of the 1960s and 1970s, along later fabricating the charge component of the Space Shuttle’s Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), is located nearby.

The present-day town of Frederica was allocation of a land comply to Boneny Bishop by William Penn in 1681. The location at a correct along the Murderkill River was originally known as Indian Point and far along became known as Johnny Cake Landing. The port was surveyed in 1758 and the Place where most shipping excitement occurred became known as Goforth’s Landing.

The remainder of the town was surveyed and laid out by Jonathan Emerson in 1772. In 1796, the community was renamed from Johnny Cake Landing to Frederica Landing at the demand of one of Emerson’s daughters, as she believed the pronounce Johnny Cake Landing was a rather unceremonious, informal pronounce and inappropriate for a settlement near to Barratt’s Chapel, a major landmark for Methodism. (See Johnnycake.) The Town of Frederica was incorporated by the confess in 1826. The incorporation act for Frederica was repealed in 1855, only for the town to be reincorporated in 1865.

Frederica was built along the Murderkill River at a dwindling it was nevertheless navigable, 6 miles (9.7 km) from the Delaware Bay. The town was in the midst of wetlands, leading to the nickname “Frogtown” for the large number of frogs that living in the wetlands. Frederica developed as a shipping and shipbuilding middle due to its location along the navigable Murderkill River; shipping and shipbuilding would dominate the town’s economy for several decades. The town was associated by water to additional Kent County towns along similar to the city of Philadelphia, and its fortunes depended upon its water connections to these places as roads were often impassable at the time. Important cargo shipped along the Murderkill River in Frederica’s to come history included bacon, beef, corn, wheat flour, cedar shingles, cheese, butter, tar, pitch and hardwood boards.