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Map of the history of the DuPont family and company along Delaware Route 141. Along Delaware Route 141 there are a number of historic sites that trace the history of both the Du Pont family and the DuPont company. At the southwest end is DuPont’s Chestnut Run Plaza and at the northeastern end is the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children.
The Nemours Estate is a 200-acre (81 ha) country estate with jardin à la française formal gardens and a French neoclassical mansion in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. Built to resemble a French château , its 105 rooms on four floors occupy nearly 47,000 sq ft (4,400 m 2 ).
Winterthur is located in northwestern Delaware, six miles north of Wilmington on Delaware Route 52. [3] [17] The museum and estate are situated on 979 acres (396 ha), near Brandywine Creek, with 60 acres (24 ha) of naturalistic gardens. [18] The museum contains 175 period-room displays and approximately 90,000 objects.
Bellevue State Park is a 328-acre (133 ha) Delaware state park in the suburbs of Wilmington in New Castle County, Delaware in the United States. The park is named for Bellevue Hall, the former mansion of William du Pont Jr. Many of the facilities at the park were built by du Pont.
The Hagley Museum and Library is a nonprofit educational institution in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, near Wilmington. [2] Covering more than 235 acres (95 ha) along the banks of the Brandywine Creek, the museum and grounds include the first du Pont family home and garden in the United States, the powder yards, and a 19th-century machine shop. [3]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in New Castle County, Delaware north of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, excluding the city of Wilmington. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included ...
Alfred du Pont was born in the Brandywine Valley region of Delaware, where his great-great-grandfather Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours had immigrated with his sons after the French Revolution. [3] [4] His great grandfather Eleuthère Irénée du Pont had founded E. I. du Pont de Nemours and
The Nemours Mansion and Gardens is seen in the upper center. Hagley Museum is off the picture to the immediate left. The DuPont Experimental Station is the largest research and development facility of DuPont, [1] located on the banks of the Brandywine Creek in Wilmington, Delaware