History
By 1920, what is now DE 12 existed as an unimproved county road. By 1924, the route was completed as a state highway between Hollandsville and Frederica and was proposed as a state highway between the Maryland border in Whiteleysburg and Hollandsville and within Frederica. The entire road between Whiteleysburg and Frederica was built as a state highway by 1925. When Delaware created its state highway system by 1936, DE 12 was assigned to run from US 13 in Felton to US 113 in Frederica. By 1938, DE 12 was extended west to the Maryland border in Whiteleysburg. In 1965, US 113 was moved to a bypass to the east of Frederica, and DE 12 was extended north on the former alignment of US 113 to end at that route a short distance north of Frederica. In November 2009, construction began for a grade-separated interchange between at DE 1; the interchange was completed in June 2011.
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