Teddy's Tavern

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“Teddy's Tavern, originally called the Blue Hen Garage, is a historic tavern located at Ellendale, Sussex County, Delaware, USA. It was built about 1923, as a service station catering to motorists on the newly constructed Du Pont Highway.”
Wikipedia article Teddy's Tavern, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Sussex County · listed in 1991 · 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. E side Du Pont Blvd., 0.6 mi. N of jct. with DE 16, Cedar Creek Hundred, Ellendale, 19941
When was it listed? July 1991
Category. building
Census division. Milford South
Architectural style. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 91000911 - 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

41 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Teddy's Tavern between 2002 and 2019, burning about 154 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	7
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	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
9 September 2013	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	not named
9 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 September 2016	Smoking	1.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	FLEATOWN
10 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
9 August 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
20 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this property

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellendale, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 8 heavy rain, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 lightning. 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
September 2007	Lightning	Ellendale	$5,000	A lightning strike and ensuing fire caused a shed fire on a property on Reynolds Pond Road east of Ellendale. Damage was estimated at $5,000.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellendale	-	Reports of on and off wind damage from Route 13 to Route 113. Likely due to tornado. Time estimated via radar.
August 2018	Flash Flood	Ellendale	-	Locally heavy rain resulted in flash flooding in areas along Route 113 from around Ellendale southward.
July 2017	Flood	Ellendale	-	Reynolds Pond road from routes 16 to 30 flooded.
July 2017	Heavy Rain	Ellendale	-	Just over four and a half inches of rain fell at this DEOS site.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Ellendale	-	Four and just under a third of an inch of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Ellendale	-	Four and a third inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Ellendale	-	Just under four and a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Ellendale	-	Four and a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Ellendale	-	Just under four and a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Ellendale	-	Over five and a half inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Ellendale	-	Just over six inches of rain fell.
May 2014	Hail	Ellendale	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped half dollar size hail in Ellendale.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellendale	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down a couple of trees in and around Ellendale.
July 2002	Flash Flood	Ellendale	-	no account filed
June 2001	Flash Flood	Ellendale	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellendale	-	no account filed
July 2000	Lightning	Ellendale	-	no account filed
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellendale	-	no account filed
September 1997	Funnel Cloud	Ellendale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sussex 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
Ellendale State Forest Picnic Facility	2.7 miles	1991
Fort Miles Historic District	3.4 miles	2004
McColley's Chapel	4.8 miles	2011
Redden Forest Lodge, Forester's House, and Stable	5.3 miles	1980
Abbott's Mill	5.3 miles	1972
Abbott's Mill (Boundary Increase)	5.4 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000911 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sussex 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.
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.