Peterson and Mustard's Hermitage Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Peterson and Mustard's Hermitage Farm is a historic home located near Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware. It built about 1863, and is a two-story, L-shaped frame dwelling in the Italianate "peach house" style.”
Wikipedia article Peterson and Mustard's Hermitage Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. E of Smyrna off DE 325, Smyrna, 19977
When was it listed? October 1982
Category. building
Census division. Smyrna
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 82001027 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Peterson and Mustard's Hermitage Farm between 1997 and 1999, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
20 June 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	ENTRANCE
18 March 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	MISERY

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Peterson and Mustard's Hermitage Farm: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hoskinson Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this property

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smyrna, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 19 thunderstorm wind, 4 heavy rain, 3 lightning, 3 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2002	Hail	Smyrna	$100,000	no account filed
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Smyrna	$25,000	A severe thunderstorm tore siding from homes, knocked down trees and mail boxes in Smyrna.
July 2004	Lightning	Smyrna	$10,000	no account filed
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Smyrna	$1,000	A severe thunderstorm knocked down a couple of trees and wires in Smyrna.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Smyrna	-	Multiple large trees and power lines were blown down in Smyrna.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Smyrna	-	Wires down in Smyrna. Time estimated from radar.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Smyrna	-	Report of a tree blown down into a structure in Smryna. Time estimated from radar.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Smyrna	-	Large tree limb down along Smyrna-Leipsic Road near Sunnyside Road. Report via social media. Time estimated from radar.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Smyrna	-	Multiple large trees were reported down, some causing property damage. Time estimated from radar.
July 2017	Heavy Rain	Smyrna	-	Several inches of rain fell in a quick time-span.
July 2017	Heavy Rain	Smyrna	-	Around three and a half inches of rain fell at this DEOS.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Smyrna	-	Around three inches of rain fell.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Smyrna	-	Trees downed due to thunderstorm winds in Smyrna and Clayton.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Smyrna	-	A severe thunderstorm generated a wind gust of 59 mph in Smyrna. Widely scattered power outages also occurred.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Smyrna	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down a few trees in Smyrna.
May 2011	Hail	Smyrna	-	Penny size hail fell in Smyrna.
August 2011	Flash Flood	Smyrna	-	Repeat thunderstorms with heavy rain dropped around six inches of rain across most of the northern third of Kent County. This caused small stream, field and poor drainage flash flooding. Several roads were flooded and closed from near Dover northward. Delaware State Route 6 was closed near Clayton as was Main Street within Clayton itself. Just south of Smyrna, the northbound exit off of Delaware State Route 1 was closed. Event precipitation totals included 5.11 inches in Smyrna and 3.98 inches in Kenton.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Smyrna	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down a few trees in Smyrna.
July 2017	Heavy Rain	Smyrna	-	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Smyrna	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Smyrna	-	no account filed
June 2005	Funnel Cloud	Smyrna	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Smyrna	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Smyrna	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Smyrna	-	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Smyrna	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Smyrna	-	no account filed
August 1998	Lightning	Smyrna	-	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Smyrna	-	no account filed
June 1997	Lightning	Smyrna	-	no account filed
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Smyrna	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kent County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
David J. Cummins House	0.4 miles	1983
Ivy Dale Farm	0.7 miles	1973
Woodlawn	1.4 miles	1982
Belmont Hall	1.4 miles	1971
George Farmhouse	1.6 miles	1982
Timothy Cummins House	1.9 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82001027 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kent County	All 136 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.