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Nemours was created by Alfred I. du Pont in 1909–1910, and named for a French town affiliated with his great-great-grandfather, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours. Carrère and Hastings designed home in the style of Louis XVI—Rococo French architecture. Guided tours are open to the public with reservations highly recommended and required for ...
The DuPont Highway is a north–south road running the length of the U.S. state of Delaware from Selbyville to Wilmington. The highway, which was finished in 1923, became part of the U.S. Highway System in 1926 and was composed of: U.S. Route 113 between Selbyville and Dover (the portion between Milford and Dover is now Delaware Route 1)
DuPont: From the Banks of the Brandywine to Miracles of Science. Wilmington: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. ISBN 0-8018-7059-3. Ndiaye, Pap A. (trans. 2007). Nylon and Bombs: DuPont and the March of Modern America; Zilg, Gerard Colby. DuPont: Behind the Nylon Curtain (Prentice-Hall: 1974) 623 pages, ISBN 0-13-221077-0; Zilg, Gerard Colby.
On July 20, 1918, DuPont reached an agreement with the state of Delaware for the newly formed DSHD to construct the remaining sections of the highway. DuPont would dissolve Coleman DuPont Road, Inc., and finance the remainder of construction up to $44,000 per mile ($27,000/km), which is equivalent to $590,000 per mile ($370,000/km) in 2023 [66 ...
DE 7 north (South Dupont Highway) DE 72 south (Wrangle Hill Road) to DE 9 – Delaware City: South end of DE 72 concurrency; southern terminus of DE 7: 81.87: 131.76: DE 1 south – Dover, Beaches DE 72 north (Wrangle Hill Road) – Newark: DE 1 exit 152; north end of DE 72 concurrency; south end of DE 1 concurrency: Tybouts Corner: 84.06: 135.28
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 ...
The company was founded in 1958 by Wilbert (Bill) Lee Gore and his wife Genevieve (Vieve) Walton Gore in Newark. Bill Gore had spent 16 years with the DuPont Company in a number of technical positions that included fluoropolymer research when he decided to form his own company.
The Experimental Station is located east from Hagley Museum and west-southwest from Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware. The station serves as the primary research and development facility for DuPont. It is home to DuPont's Central Research and most other business units of DuPont are also represented on site. The Experimental Station is where ...