Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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] It encompasses 56 contributing buildings, five contributing sites, and three contributing structures. The district encompasses ...
This is a list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wilmington, Delaware: [1]. For reasons of size, the listings in New Castle County are divided into three lists: those in Wilmington, other listings in northern New Castle County (north of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal), and those in southern New Castle County (south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal).
Brandywine Village Historic District is a national historic district located along Brandywine Creek at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.It encompasses 12 contributing buildings, 7 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures.
Jacob Broom built a cotton mill on the Brandywine Creek just north of Wilmington, Delaware, in 1795, which burned down in 1797.In 1802, he sold the site, complete with a working dam and mill race, to Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, who paid $6,740 for the 95 acres (380,000 m 2), [5] two years after he and his family left France to escape the French Revolution. [6]
Glynrich is the site for two historic homes: the Richard Richardson House and the Brick Mill House. They are located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.The Brick Mill House, also known as the John Richardson House, was built about 1723, and is a two-story, three-bay, gable roof brick structure with Flemish bond and glazed headers on the facade rising from a full raised basement.
The Baynard Boulevard Historic District is a national historic district located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.It encompasses 77 contributing buildings with examples of Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Queen Anne architecture.
Bancroft Mills is an abandoned mill complex along Brandywine Creek in Wilmington, Delaware, United States.It has been the site of some of the earliest and most famous mills near Wilmington and was the largest and longest running complex along the Brandywine.
West 9th Street Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.It encompasses 28 contributing buildings in a commercial area of Wilmington developed in the early 20th century.