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Fox Point State Park is a Delaware state park on 108 [1] acres (44 ha) along the Delaware River in New Castle County, Delaware in the United States.The park, which opened in 1995, has been built atop a former hazardous waste site that has been rehabilitated under an adaptive reuse program that was spearheaded by S. Marston Fox and the Fox Point Civic Association.
In 1981 Fenwick Island State Park became a separate park; before that it was the southern part of Delaware Seashore State Park. First State Heritage: Kent: 2004 Designed as an urban "park without boundaries," this park links historic and cultural sites throughout the capital city, Dover. Fort Delaware: New Castle: 248.55 acres (100.58 ha) 1951
Fort Delaware State Park is a 288-acre (117 ha), 1 mi (1.6 km) long Delaware state park on Pea Patch Island in the mid channel of the Delaware River near its entrance into Delaware Bay. It is a low, marshy island in New Castle County , Delaware , facing Delaware City on the Delaware shore and Finns Point on the New Jersey shore.
Old Brick Store, also known as the Old Brick Hotel and The Granary, is a historic commercial building located near Smyrna, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1764, and is a two- to three-story, three bay brick building. The building marks the location of what may have been a grain shipping center for southern New Castle County. [2]
Smyrna is a town in Kent and New Castle counties in the U.S. state of Delaware. It is part of the Dover metropolitan statistical area. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2020, the population of the town is 12,883. [3] The international jurist John Bassett Moore was born in Smyrna, as were politicians Louis McLane and James Williams.
In the War of 1812 all Delaware volunteer units saw service at Lewes, where they comprised the bulk of force that drove off a British naval squadron seeking control of the Delaware River. The 198th Signal Battalion (ARNG DE), which traces its lineage to three militia units that were federalized during the War of 1812, is one of only nineteen ...
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Auburn Valley State Park (formerly Auburn Heights Preserve) is a 471-acre (191 ha) public recreation and historic preservation area located in Yorklyn, Delaware, United States. The state park preserves the former home and estate of the Marshall family as well as portions of the family's former mills alongside the Red Clay Creek and additional ...