Laurel is a town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. The population was 3,708 at the era of the 2010 census. Laurel is allowance of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. It taking into consideration hosted the Laurel Blue Hens of the Eastern Shore Baseball League.

The site of the town of Laurel was a Nanticoke Indian settlement known as Broad Creek Town during most of the eighteenth century. Its Nanticoke name is unknown. The Indian unity was created upon tracts known as Bachelor’s Delight and Greenland in 1711 past the management of Maryland, who originally claimed this part of Delaware, set aside estate for the Nanticoke Indians. Nearly anything the Indian settlers left within 50 years, relocating to western Pennsylvania.^{[citation needed]} The present town was laid out along the Broad Creek in the 1790s and was named for the laurel bushes that grew to the side of the creek.

The Chipman Potato House, Chipman’s Mill, Collins Potato House, Hearn Potato House, E. L. Hitch Potato House, Laurel Historic District, Moore Potato House, Old Christ Church, Phillips Potato House, Ralph Potato House, Rider Potato House, Ross Point School, Spring Garden, Stanley Potato House, and Wright Potato House are listed upon the National Register of Historic Places.

On March 29, 1929, the town was merged taking into account the adjoining town of North Laurel which comprised most of the current town north of Broad Creek (then known as Laurel River). This join up was not properly reported to the United States Census Bureau, which resulted in the North Laurel’s population not creature included considering the population of Laurel in the 1930 United States Census. As such, the US Census Bureau did not brusquely make a tweak to the 1930 population statistics subsequently the mistake was discovered, however it normal in 1940 that the perfect population for Laurel in 1930 was 2,542.