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Winterthur Museum, Pennsylvania folk art room, c. 1950 Treaty of Paris, 1783 Benjamin West painting (left to right: John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens, and William Temple Franklin) Winterthur is located in northwestern Delaware, six miles north of Wilmington on Delaware Route 52.
Longwood Gardens is a public garden that consists of more than 1,100 acres (445 hectares; 4.45 km 2) of gardens, woodlands, and meadows in the Brandywine Creek Valley in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States. [2]
Joseph Downs (July 24, 1895 – September 8, 1954) was an American museum curator and scholar of American decorative arts.After 17 years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Downs became founding curator of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library from 1949 to 1954.
Winterthur Mansion and Gardens The du Pont family ( English: / d uː ˈ p ɒ n t / ) [ 1 ] or Du Pont family is a prominent American family descended from Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817), a French minor aristocrat.
Unlike other forms of municipalities in Pennsylvania, boroughs and towns are not classified according to population. Boroughs designated in the table below with a dagger (†) are home rule municipalities and are also found in the List of Pennsylvania municipalities and counties with home rule charters, optional charters, or optional plans. The ...
Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted. There are 56 municipalities classified as cities in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [1] Each city is further classified based on population, with Philadelphia being of the first class, Pittsburgh of the second class, Scranton of the second class A, and the remaining 53 cities being of the third class.
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.
The following is a list of the 70 counties of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.The city of Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia County, the municipalities having been consolidated in 1854, and all remaining county government functions having been merged into the city after a 1951 referendum.