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Holy Trinity Church, also known as Old Swedes, is a historic church at East 7th and Church Street in Wilmington, Delaware. It was consecrated on Trinity Sunday, June 4, 1699, by a predominantly Swedish congregation formerly of the colony of New Sweden. [3] The church is among the few surviving public buildings that reflect the Swedish colonial ...
The Hendrickson House is part of Old Swedes Historic Site, which includes Holy Trinity Church (Old Swedes) (1698–99) and burial ground (1638), a National Historic Landmark. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] See also
St. Ann's Church (organized 1787) was originally named in honor of Ann Ayscough Sands (1761–1851), who was an early patron with her husband Joshua Sands. [8] The church previously occupied the elaborate High Victorian Gothic building still standing on the northeast corner of Clinton and Livingston streets, built 1877-1878 to designs by James ...
1655 - Fort taken from Swedes by Dutch forces of Peter Stuyvesant. [1] 1664 - English in power. [1] 1682 - New Sweden becomes part of the English colonial Province of Pennsylvania. [1] 1698 - Holy Trinity Church (Old Swedes) built. [1] 1731 - Landowner Thomas Willing names his property "Willingtown" (renamed "Wilmington" around 1739). [1] 1739
Old Asbury Methodist Church; Old Brick Store; Old Christ Church (Laurel, Delaware) Old College Historic District; Old Customshouse (Wilmington, Delaware) Old Drawyers Church; Old First Presbyterian Church (Wilmington, Delaware) Old State House (Dover, Delaware) Old Town Hall (Wilmington, Delaware)
John Hansson Steelman, also known as "Hance" Stillman, Stelman, Tilghman, or Tillmann (1655–1749), the eldest son of Hans Månsson and Ella Olofsdotter Stille. He was a fur trader and interpreter who traded with Shawnee, Susquehannock and Piscataway Indians in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Old Swedes' Church may refer to: Holy Trinity Church (Old Swedes) in Wilmington, Delaware; Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; St. James Kingsessing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is often called "Old Swedes" Trinity Church (Old Swedes' Church) in Swedesboro, New Jersey
Trinity Church, also known as Old Swedes' Church, is a historic church on the northwest corner of Church Street and King's Highway in Swedesboro in Gloucester County, New Jersey, U.S. The congregation was founded as a Swedish Lutheran parish in 1703, after local residents tired of crossing the Delaware River or Philadelphia to worship.