Delaware

Walls’ Homestead, Georgetown, Delaware (38.687995, -75.338097)

Primary House House Felling Dates: Undated

Kitchen - Ex-sit Timbers Felling Dates: Winter 1809/10

Site Master (oak) WHDEx2 (t = 7.69 POPMASTE; 7.04 MDOAK; 6.90 LMP).

The Walls’ Homestead started out as a small, three-bay, two-story framed house. A one-and-a-half-story kitchen (later raised to a full two stories) was added to the east gable, while a two-story ell was added to the north side of the structure.

Dendrochronological analysis has shown that the kitchen was constructed from timbers felled in the winter of 1809/10. The primary construction phase of the house could not be dated.

Worthington, M J and Seiter, J I 2022 “The Tree-Ring Dating of Walls’ Homestead, Georgetown, Delaware ”, unpublished Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory archive report 2022/10

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