Redden is an
unincorporated community in
Sussex County,
Delaware, United States. The community became an important railroad center on the Junction and Breakwater Railroad in the 1800s. The site of a historic 19th-century church and a
World War II mess hall, Redden lost its post office and school in the 1930s.
The original
McColley's Chapel, a
Methodist church in Redden, was built sometime after the land was donated, in 1857.[2] The original building was replaced with the current chapel in 1898.[2]
Redden was originally known as Carey. It was renamed in honor of Col. William O. Redden, who had prominent role in Sussex County in the mid-19th century.[3] The Redden post office began operation in 1868.[4]
The Redden School, numbered 180, was still in operation in 1928,[9] but by 1930, a recommendation was made by the Delaware State Board of Education to close the Redden School.[10]
Redden Community Hall, used as a
mess hall during World War II, is "a rare surviving example of an intact
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp facility in Delaware".[11] Around this time, the Redden post office closed; it ceased operations in 1933.[4]
^Miller, Richard F. (2015),
States at War, vol. 4 A Reference Guide for Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey in the Civil War, University Press of New England,
ISBN9781611686210,
archived from the original on February 14, 2024, retrieved August 9, 2021