Between 1763 and 1767, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon surveyed the Mason-Dixon line settling Sussex County's western and southern borders.

Most of Sussex County's economy was based on agriculture ( chiefly dairy farming ) and the mining industry.

In 2008, the county voted for Republican John McCain by an 18. 4 % margin over Democrat Barack Obama, making it McCain's second-strongest county in New Jersey behind Sussex County, with Obama winning the Garden State by 15. 5 % margin over McCain, who carried Ocean County's every municipality except South Toms River.

Henlopen Acres ' municipal government generally maintains amicable relations with the government of Rehoboth Beach, follows Sussex County's lead on how to react to emergencies such as major storms and whether or not to evacuate in the face of them.

The principal area of settlement in the 5th century has been identified as between the lower Ouse and Cuckmere rivers in East Sussex, based on the number of Anglo-Saxon cemeteries there.

Rye is a small town in East Sussex, England, which stands approximately two miles from the open sea and is at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede.

When the Ice Age ended, the snowfields covering the South Downs melted, and rivers formed across Sussex.

* Small sections of eastern Sussex County drain into the watersheds of the Pequannock River, Passaic River, and Rockaway River which end in Newark Bay.

To this day traffic flow on Sussex Drive has been hampered by the closing of one of the lanes in order to place extra barriers.

From north to south, these three counties are New Castle, Kent, and Sussex.

They sailed in three divisions, and probably landed at Richborough in Kent, although some suggest that at least part of the invasion force landed on the south coast, in the Fishbourne area of West Sussex.

* According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Aelle, first king of the South Saxons, lands on the Sussex coast ( England ), with his three sons, near Cymenshore.

Born in Horsham, West Sussex, he is the oldest of three children, the son of English television, radio and newspaper journalist and presenter Edward Enfield.

Sussex has three main geographic sub-regions, each orientated approximately east to west.

Most historians regard the foundation of Sussex with Ælle landing with three ships and three sons as a myth.

Jones portrays a masked gentleman known as " The Scarecrow ," who travels at night on horseback with three others and returns home to Sussex, an ordinary family man.

All three counties in Delaware — New Castle, Kent, and Sussex — are located on the peninsula ( though upper New Castle county only in part ).

Then, three weeks later, William of Normandy defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings, in Sussex, and in December he accepted the submission of Edgar the Ætheling, last in the line of Anglo-Saxon kings, at Berkhamsted.

Newark was originally to be one of three cities to represent New Jersey in the Can-Am League along with Little Falls, home of the New Jersey Jackals, and Augusta, home of the Sussex Skyhawks.

In 1682, English King Charles II awarded the Delaware territories to William Penn in settlement of family debts, and Penn reorganized all three Delaware counties: Deale County become Sussex County, and St. Jones County became Kent County, in recognition of Penn's homelands in Sussex County, England.

The route the three men traveled is unknown, but they may have traveled through Sussex County, Warren County, Hunterdon County or Pennsylvania.

In a few key locations the king gave his followers compact groups of estates including the six rapes of Sussex and the three earldoms of Chester, Shrewsbury and Hereford ; intended to protect the line of communication with Normandy and the Welsh border respectively.

He is married with three children and lives in Arundel, West Sussex, England.

When he was three years old, in December 1962 his family moved to Horley in Surrey, where he later attended St. Francis Primary School, before moving to Crawley in West Sussex in March 1966, where he attended St. Francis Junior School.

Non-Oxbridge institutions that have won University Challenge more than once have been University of Manchester with three wins, and Durham, Sussex, the Open University and Imperial College, London, who have each won twice.

* In 1955, three pairs of Bee-eaters nested in Streat sand quarry near Plumpton, East Sussex.

The most well known piers are perhaps the two at Brighton in East Sussex and the three at Blackpool in Lancashire.

As a son of the sovereign, the Duke of Sussex had use of the arms of the kingdom, differenced by a label argent of three points, the centre point bearing a two hearts gules, the outer points each bearing a cross gules.

On March 18, 2010, plans to widen the section between Handcross and Warninglid in West Sussex to three lanes, removing an accident prone bend, were given the go ahead.

Along with the Forest of Dean and the Weald of Kent and Sussex, this area of Northamptonshire " was one of the three great centres of iron-working in Roman Britain ".

To mark the ten-year anniversary of their first single, " Fear of Drowning ", the band played three intimate shows at Berwick Village Hall in East Sussex in May 2011.

Galston found that excessive usage of the compound caused catastrophic defoliation — a finding later used by his colleague Ian Sussex to develop the family of herbicides used in Operation Ranch Hand.

He died of mesothelioma, sitting in a high-backed chair, surrounded by books — at his home in Lewes, East Sussex on April 19, 2004.

Two official residences are provided to the prime minister — 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa and Harrington Lake, a country retreat in Gatineau Park — as well an office in the Langevin Block, across from Parliament Hill.

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* 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa — Prime Minister of Canada ( who also has a country residence Harrington Lake )

Among the dukedoms granted to still younger sons of the Sovereign are Cambridge, Connaught, Cumberland, Edinburgh, Gloucester, Kent and Sussex — others in the Scottish peerage have included Ross and Kintyre.

Mulroney also did not immediately vacate 24 Sussex Drive after Campbell was sworn in as Prime Minister — as their new private residence in Montreal was still undergoing renovations, Brian and Mila Mulroney did not move out of 24 Sussex until their new home was ready.

Dupont, Jr. also writes that in the late 19th century two places named Vernon existed — the one in Sussex County and another in Essex County.

* Stories that explain why Vortigern granted land in Britain to the Saxons — first Thanet, in exchange for service as foederati troops ; then the rest of Kent, in exchange for the hand of Hengest's daughter ; then Essex and Sussex, after a banquet where the Saxons treacherously slew all of the leaders of the British, but saved Vortigern to extract this ransom.

The June 2004 election returned four Conservatives, two Liberal Democrats, two UK Independents, one Labour, and one Green — none of whom live in East Sussex.

* Virgin Atlantic Airways — an international carrier based in Crawley, West Sussex, UK ( 51 % owned by Virgin Group )

* 1 March — formation of Sussex CCC out of the Sussex Cricket Fund organisation that had been set up in 1836 ; Sussex is the oldest county club

* 10 – 11 June — Sussex CCC plays its inaugural first-class match versus Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) at Lord's

The speech of the Sussex characters is a parody of rural dialects ( in particular Sussex and West Country accents — another parody of novelists who use phonics to portray various accents and dialects ) and is sprinkled with fake but authentic-sounding local vocabulary such as mollocking ( Seth's favourite activity, undefined but invariably resulting in the pregnancy of a local maid ), sukebind ( a weed whose flowering in the Spring symbolises the quickening of sexual urges in man and beast ; the word is presumably formed by analogy to ' woodbine ' ( honeysuckle ) and bindweed ) and clettering ( an impractical method used by Adam for washing dishes, which involves scraping them with a dry twig or clettering stick ).

* 17 June — a meeting in Brighton establishes a " Sussex Cricket Fund " to support county matches and it is from this organisation that Sussex CCC is formally constituted in 1839

From this time onwards, Sussex was divided into — from west to east — Chichester, Arundel, Bramber, Lewes, Pevensey and Hastings rapes.