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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]
Hagley visitors can discover more than 200 years of Delaware and American history on tours of first du Pont family residence in America.
The cast and crew of Cinecraft Productions filming Miracle on Mulberry Street (1948).Photo courtesy of the Hagley Museum & Library. Cinécraft was founded by Ray and Betty Culley in 1939. [ 4 ] Promoting "Sound Business Pictures in Natural Color," the studio began in rental space in the Card Building on St. Clair Ave. in downtown Cleveland.
In 1952, family members donated 185 acres (0.75 km 2) of land and the DuPont company established a $6,000,000 endowment for the Eleutherian Mill-Hagley Foundation for a museum of industrial history. The Hagley Museum and Library formed in 1957. [4] The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966. [2] [3]
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library. This list of museums in Delaware contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
It is located between the two portions of the Hagley Museum and Library, which commemorates the early industrial history of the du Pont family. The central portion of the house is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story masonry structure with a dormered gable roof and end chimneys. The main facade is four bays wide, with the entrance in the center-left bay.
Breck's Mill Area, also known as Breck's Mill Area-Henry Clay Village Historic District, is a national historic district located along Brandywine Creek in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, near Wilmington. [2]
Henry Francis du Pont (May 27, 1880 – April 11, 1969) was an American horticulturist, collector of early American furniture and decorative arts, breeder of Holstein Friesian cattle, and scion of the powerful du Pont family. [1]