Slaughter Beach, Delaware

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The population was 198 at the 2000 census. Slaughter Beach was founded in 1681 and incorporated in 1931. There are at least two stories of where the towns name came from: The first is that it was named after William Slaughter, A local postmaster in the mid 1800s. The second story claims “the name came from the horseshoe crabs that wash up on shore and die each year. They come near shore to shallow water to lay their eggs and the low tide strands them leaving them to die, thus the "slaughter."
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Coordinates:   38°54'55"N   75°17'58"W
This article was last modified 14 years ago