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The museum is a program of the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art. It opened in 1971 through the efforts of "Frolic" Weymouth, who also served on its board. [2]In September 2021, the museum's lower level was flooded due to the remnants of Hurricane Ida with mechanical systems, lecture rooms, classrooms and office spaces damaged and estimates around $6 million. [3]
The Brandywine Wildflower and Native Plant Gardens are gardens at the Brandywine River Museum, located on U.S. Route 1 beside the Brandywine Creek in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The gardens were established in 1974 to a design by F. M. Mooberry .
Betsy Wyeth was a defender and restorer of the Brandywine region's vernacular architecture. [2] She helped to save a 19th-century gristmill by encouraging a neighbour, George Weymouth, to buy it and turn it into a museum. [2] This opened in 1971 as the Brandywine River Museum (now known as the Brandywine Museum of Art). [6]
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Karl Kuerner died in 1979, followed by Anna in 1997. In 1999, the farm was acquired by the Brandywine Conservancy, which offers tours of the farm through its Brandywine River Museum. [3] It was designated as a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. In 2014, the listing was expanded to include ...
Brandywine Creek [1] [2] (also called the Brandywine River) is a tributary of the Christina River in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware in the United States.The Lower Brandywine (the main stem) is 20.4 miles (32.8 km) long [3] and is a designated Pennsylvania Scenic River with several tributary streams.
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Brandywine Creek (Christina River tributary), also known as Brandywine River, in Pennsylvania and Delaware; Brandywine River Museum, in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; Brandywine, West Virginia, in Pendleton County; Penn State Brandywine, a Pennsylvania State University campus in Delaware County, Pennsylvania