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The Brandywine Battlefield Historic Site is a National Historical Landmark.The historic park is owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, on 52 acres (210,000 m 2), near Chadds Ford, Delaware County, Pennsylvania in the United States.
James Longstreet (January 8, 1821 – January 2, 1904) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War and was the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse".
The historic park is owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, on 52 acres (21 ha), near Chadds Ford, Delaware County, part of the site of the Battle of Brandywine. The American Battlefield Trust and its partners have acquired and preserved more than 187 acres (0.76 km 2) of the battlefield as of mid-2023. [29]
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In 2012, The Woodlawn Trustees submitted development plans to Concord Township Supervisors in Delaware County for the purpose of constructing approximately 500 housing units and a 225,000 square foot national retail store, all of which would adjoin the First State National Historical Park in Chadds Ford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania ...
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017, its nomination asserted that the district "exhibits a cohesive collection of distinctive architectural resources and landscape features that identify it as an important enclave in the Lower Brandywine Creek Valley of the two types of country estates that were being created within the time frame of the American Country Estate Movement."
US 202 and US 322 follow the Wilmington Pike across the eastern edge of the township along a northwest-southeast alignment. PA 52 follows Lenape Road across the northwestern corner of the township on a north-south alignment. Finally, PA 926 follows Street Road across the central portion of the township on a southwest-northeast alignment.
Longstreet, James, From Manassas to Appomattox. New York: Lippincott, 1895, ISBN 0-306-80464-6. Mendoza, Alexander, Confederate Struggle For Command: General James Longstreet and the First Corps in the West. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. ISBN 1-60344-052-6