Northwest Fork Hundred in Bridgeville in Sussex County, Delaware — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Veterans Memorial

Photographed by Pete Skillman, August 29, 2025

1. Veterans Memorial Marker

Inscription.
In Memory of Those who Gave Their Lives in the Service of their Country.

American Legion Post No. 26

1917 Raymond Smith 1943
1920 Wilford Black 1944
1922 Loran C. Adams 1944
1924 Harry N. Russell 1944
1925 William J. Chalmers 1943
1948 Gene Tyndall Grant 1968
1948 Dennis Ray Mowbray 1969

1885 Lillie M. Owens, R.N. 1918

World War I 1917 - 1918
World War II 1941 - 1945
Korea 1950 - 1953
Vietnam 1964 - 1975

Erected by American Legion Post No. 26.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World I • War, World II.

Location. 38° 44.659′ N, 75° 36.175′ W. Memorial is in Bridgeville, Delaware, in Sussex County. It is in Northwest Fork Hundred. It can be reached from North Laws Street. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 2 N Laws St, Bridgeville DE 19933, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the American Mid-Atlantic

and on the Delmarva Peninsula.

Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western

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Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Netherland,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Old Bridgeville Firehouse (about 700 feet away, measured in a direct line); Edward Redfield (approx. 0.2 miles away); Bridgeville, Delaware (approx. 0.2 miles away); a different marker also named Sudler House (approx. ¼ mile away); Phillis Wheatley School (approx. half a mile away); Jack Lewis (approx. 0.6 miles away); Elizabeth Smith-Cornish (approx. 0.6 miles away); Site of Jacobs School #143 (approx. 1.9 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Bridgeville.

Another marker is no longer nearby. Sudler House (was approx. ¼ mile away but has been replaced with another marker now near it).

Veterans Memorial - top face image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Pete Skillman, August 29, 2025

2. Veterans Memorial - top face

Veterans Memorial - wide view with flagpole image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Pete Skillman, August 29, 2025

3. Veterans Memorial - wide view with flagpole

Credits. This page was last revised on June 5, 2026. It was originally submitted on August 29, 2025, by Pete Skillman of Townsend, Delaware. This page has been viewed 90 times since then and 15 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on August 29, 2025, by Pete Skillman of Townsend, Delaware.