Ocean View, Delaware
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Birthplace of the Commercial Broiler Industry
In 1923, Cecile Long Steele started a flock of 500 chicks. At 16 weeks, they weighted 2 and ¼ pounds and sold for 62 cents a pound. By 1989, growers produce birds of twice the weight in half the time. Sussex County leads the nation in broiler production, now a multibillion dollar industry.
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In 1923, Cecile Long Steele started a flock of 500 chicks. At 16 weeks, they weighted 2 and ¼ pounds and sold for 62 cents a pound. By 1989, growers produce birds of twice the weight in half the time. Sussex County leads the nation in broiler production, now a multibillion dollar industry.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_View,_Delaware
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 38°32'39"N 75°5'24"W
- Little Assawoman Bay 6 km
- Peninsula Lakes 13 km
- Winding Creek Village 14 km
- Angola Beach and Estates 16 km
- Angola by the Bay 17 km
- Jones Crossroads Landfill (DSWA) 32 km
- South Point 37 km
- Stein Highway 55 km
- Metompkin Bay 100 km
- Sandbridge Beach 212 km
- Village at Bear Trap Dunes 2.1 km
- Bayside Resort Golf Club 9 km
- Bayside - A golf community 10 km
- Baltimore Hundred 10 km
- Transpeninsular Line 10 km
- Links at Lighthouse Sound 15 km
- Dagsboro Hundred 18 km
- Sussex County, Delaware 31 km
- Worcester County, Maryland 43 km
- Mason Dixon Line 150 km