Fleming’s Landing marks the boundary between New Castle and Kent Counties. It is the site of an attractive mid-19th- century farm as well as a small fleet of oyster boats. From the 1700’s through the 1800’s, the Smyrna River was known as Duck Creek, and it is still called Duck Creek by some local residents. Here you can get a close look at typical marsh grasses—big cordgrass, feather grass, the shorter salt marsh cordgrass, and salt hay. Anywhere you see the word “landing” in a place name, there was once an actual landing where farmers brought their livestock and produce to be loaded onto barges and shipped to either Wilmington or Philadelphia. Some of these landings are still in operation today.

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