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The mill seen from the south in 2006. The Curtis Paper Mill (also known as the Nonantum Mill) was a factory located near White Clay Creek in Newark, Delaware. Although a mill had existed on the site since the late eighteenth century, the final structure was built in 1870. The Curtis brothers bought the plant in 1848.
Curtis Paper Mill Workers' Houses is set of historic include single and two multi-family dwellings located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. They were built about 1888, and include two rectangular 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 story frame structures which served as multi-family worker's dwellings, and one 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 story, single family house which was ...
Meteer Store House is a historic building located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1808 and is a one-story, rectangular structure built of uncoursed stone rubble. It was built as part of a paper manufacturing complex referred to as "Meteer's Mill." [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]
The park, known also by its initials MRVNA, is located east of downtown Newark amidst residential neighborhoods and other park land. Establishment of MRVNA was begun in 1975; eventually the park reached its current 850 acres (3.4 km 2 ) of forests, fields, creeks, and ponds.
Newark received a license from King George II to hold semi-annual fairs and weekly markets for agricultural exchange in 1758. A paper mill, the first sizable industrial venture in Newark, was created around 1798. [8] This mill, eventually known as the Curtis Paper Mill, was the oldest paper mill in the United States until its closing in 1997.
The complex includes a late 18th-century mill owner's house, a circa mid-19th-century miller's house, and a grist mill that was initially constructed in 1795. The mill is a banked, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story, gable-roofed building that is constructed of uncoursed rubble fieldstone at its basement and first floor levels, and of weatherboarded frame at ...
White Clay Creek State Park is a Delaware state park along White Clay Creek on 3,647 acres (1,476 ha) [1] in New Castle County, near Newark, Delaware in the United States. North of the park is Pennsylvania 's White Clay Creek Preserve , and the two were originally operated as bi-state parks to jointly protect the creek, but now they operate ...
Joseph Dean & Son Woolen Mill, also known as NVF Company, Newark Fibre Plant, is a historic woolen mill located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. The property includes seven contributing buildings and one contributing site. The oldest mill structure is a four-story stone structure with a corbelled brick cornice and flat roof.