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The Twelve-Mile Circle. In 1682, James, the Duke of York gave William Penn a deed for land consisting of a 12-mile circle around the town of New Castle. The borders established by this deed were almost immediately contested by Lord Baltimore, proprietor of the colony of Maryland, and thus began an 87-year legal struggle between the two families.
New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware (New Castle, Kent, and Sussex).As of the 2020 census, the population was 570,719, [1] making it the most populous county in Delaware, with nearly 60% of the state's population of 989,948.
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 ...
English: New Castle County Court House This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America . Its reference number is 72000285 .
The courthouse tower had a flat roof until 2002, when the county invested $225,000 to erect a new cupola with a clock tower, complete with a carillon of chimes. [ 4 ] The bell from the original clock tower now rests in the plaza behind the courthouse near the main entrance to the adjacent Lawrence County Government Center, according to a plaque ...
William Gustavus Whiteley (August 7, 1819 – April 23, 1886) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware.He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U.S. Representative from Delaware, Mayor of Wilmington, and Associate Judge of the Superior Court of Delaware.
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Prior to the establishment of Penn's Philadelphia, New Castle was a center of government.After being transferred to Penn, Delaware's Swedish, Dutch, and English residents became accustomed to the relaxed culture of the Restoration monarchy and grew uncomfortable with the more conservative Quaker influence, so Delaware petitioned for a separate legislature, which was finally granted in 1702.