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The Collins-Sharp House c.1700, one of Delaware’s oldest structures, is a center for educational programming. Hearth-cooking demonstrations feature documented recipes from the late 18th- and early 19th- centuries.

Local patron H. Rodney Sharp restored this and other buildings in Odessa in the middle of the last century, helping to preserve the community's unique legacy.

From the Collection

Looking glass

Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.
1765-1780
The firm of Pomeroy and Beers produced an atlas in 1868 called the Atlas of the State of Delaware. It was the first atlas ever published of the State of Delaware. The multi-page atlas included counties, major towns and cities including Odessa, DE.