Georgetown Coal Gasification Plant
Georgetown Coal Gasification Plant | |
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| Location | N. Railroad Ave., Georgetown, Delaware |
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| Area | 0.3 acres (0.12 ha) |
| Built | 1880s |
| Demolished | 1960-1980 (partial).[3] After 1985, before 2005 (full)[4] |
| NRHP reference No. | 85002696[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 30, 1985 |
Georgetown Coal Gasification Plant, also known as the Georgetown Service and Gas Company, is a historic coal gasification plant located at Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in the late-19th century, and is a rectangular one-story, three bay by three bay brick structure measuring 40 feet by 25 feet. It has a gable roof with a smaller gable roofed ventilator. Also on the property is a small brick gable roofed brick building measuring 8 feet by 10 feet; a small, square concrete building; a large, cylindrical "surge tank;" 500-gallon bottled-gas tank; and a covered pit for impurities. The complex was privately owned and developed starting in the 1880s to provide metered gas for domestic lighting, town street lights, municipal and domestic uses. The coal gasification process was discontinued in the 1940s.[3]
The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1] It is listed on the Delaware Cultural and Historic Resources GIS system as destroyed or demolished.[5]
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- Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware
- Buildings and structures in Georgetown, Delaware
- Coal gasification technologies
- National Register of Historic Places in Sussex County, Delaware
- Energy infrastructure completed in the 19th century
- 1880s establishments in Delaware
- Demolished buildings and structures in Delaware
- Demolished but still listed on the National Register of Historic Places
- Energy infrastructure in Delaware
- Energy infrastructure on the National Register of Historic Places
- Delaware Registered Historic Place stubs