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A part of Beaver Valley's history lives on in The Brandywine Summit Camp Meeting on Beaver Valley Road. Established barely one year after the end of the Civil War in 1866, it is one of the oldest continually operating camp meetings in Pennsylvania, becoming a summertime destination of middle class Methodists from Wilmington, DE to West Chester ...
Library and research center. The society provides free access to a research library with unique special collections. The collection includes work on Delaware genealogy, maps, and Underground Railroad as well as a letter from George Washington to Caesar Rodney. [4] Senator William V. Roth's widow donated all of his papers to the library. [5]
Delaware has 3 caves or rock shelters in total, however, Beaver Valley Rock Shelter Site is the only formally recognized cave by the National Speleological Society. There are two other caves in Delaware: Gaige’s Cave and the Brandywine Springs Cave.
Map of the history of the DuPont family and company along Delaware Route 141. Along Delaware Route 141 there are a number of historic sites that trace the history of both the Du Pont family and the DuPont company. At the southwest end is DuPont’s Chestnut Run Plaza and at the northeastern end is the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children.
The park covers the early colonial history of Delaware and the role Delaware played in the establishment of the nation, leading up to it being the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. It tells the unique story of the early settlement of the Delaware Valley by the Dutch, Swedes, Finns, and English and their relationship with Native ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in New Castle County, Delaware north of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, excluding the city of Wilmington. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included ...
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Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library. This list of museums in Delaware contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.