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Longwood Gardens has a long, varied history. For thousands of years, the native Lenni Lenape tribe fished its streams, hunted its forests, and planted its fields. Evidence of the tribe's existence is found in quartz spear points that have been discovered on and around the property and can be found on display in the Peirce-du Pont House on the Longwood Gardens property.
Du Pont is famous for opening his personal estate, Longwood Gardens, with its beautiful gardens, fountains, and conservatory, to the public. Its construction was inspired by his international travels, visiting the great gardens of the world. The former P. S. Dupont High School in Wilmington, now a middle school, is named in his honor.
Several former du Pont family estates are open to the public as museums, gardens or parks, such as Winterthur, Nemours, Eleutherian Mills, Longwood Gardens, Gibraltar, Mt. Cuba, and Goodstay. [4] The family's interest in horticulture was brought to the United States by their immigrant progenitors from France and reinforced in later generations ...
The centerpiece of this 1050-acre showplace is Longwood’s elegant conservatory complex, almost five acres under glass.
Newly renovated East Conservatory of Longwood Gardens. Longwood Gardens is located just beyond the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 52 and U.S. Route 1. It consists of 1,050 acres (4.2 km 2) of gardens, woodlands, and meadows in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania in the Brandywine Creek Valley and is one of the premier botanical gardens in the ...
Sep. 10—It's been a rough time for Longwood Gardens, the popular Chester County attraction that had been at the center of the manhunt for escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante. But with the news ...
Longwood Gardens features a simple memorial cross dedicated to Hannah Freeman, continuing a nineteenth-century tradition begun by one of the previous owners of the property, George W. Peirce (1814–1880). [10] Freeman preserved a bean traditionally grown by her Lenape people as part of the Three Sisters companion planting technique. [11]
[5] [6] The Bidermanns added expansive gardens, livestock, and pastures. [6] After Bidermann's death, the property passed to his son, James Irénée, who then sold it to his uncle, Henry du Pont. [6] Henry purchased the property for his son, Henry Algernon du Pont. Henry Algernon and his wife, (Mary) Pauline, settled at Winterthur in 1876 and ...