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New Castle 39°39′38″N 75°33′48″W / 39.660512°N 75.563312°W / 39.660512; -75.563312 ( New Castle Historic Capital of Delaware colony from 1651 to 1761, having well preserved architecture.
There are 224 sites in northern New Castle County outside Wilmington, which are listed at National Register of Historic Places listings in northern New Castle County, Delaware. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 17, 2025. [2]
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [1] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [2]
The Read House & Gardens is a historic house museum at 42 The Strand in New Castle, Delaware.The house, built in 1797-1804 for George Read, Jr., was the largest and most sophisticated residence in the state at the time, and is a significant early example of high-style Federal period architecture.
The New Castle Court House Museum is the center of a circle with a 12-mile radius that defines most of the border between the states of Delaware and Pennsylvania and parts of the borders between Delaware and New Jersey and Maryland. [3] It is one of the oldest courthouses in the United States and has played a role in a number of historic events.
New Castle is a city in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. The city is located six miles (10 km) south of Wilmington and is situated on the Delaware River. As of 2020, the city's population was 5,551. [3] New Castle constitutes part of the Delaware Valley or Philadelphia metropolitan area.
Mount Cuba Historic District is a national historic district at Mount Cuba, New Castle County, Delaware.It encompasses twelve contributing buildings, one contributing site, and four contributing structures on seven properties that lie along County Road 261.
Old College Historic District is a national historic district located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It consists of six contributing buildings: Old College, Recitation Hall, Recitation Annex, Alumni Hall, Mechanical Hall, and Elliott House. These buildings formed the nucleus, and until the 20th century, the entire campus of Delaware ...