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St. Joseph on the Brandywine: 10 Old Church Rd, Greenville: Founded in the 1830s for DuPont Company workers, church dedicated in 1841 [16] Three manual Allen digital computer organ (two organs) St. Mary Magdalen 7 Sharpley Rd, Fairfax: Founded in 1951, church dedicated in 1967 [17] Two manual Zimmer pipe organ
Brandywine Hundred and North Wilmington are commonly used colloquial names for this area. However, while their names still appear on all real estate transactions, all other hundreds in Delaware presently have no meaningful use or purpose except as a geographical point of reference. In the 2010 census, Brandywine had 77,182 people.
Map of the history of the DuPont family and company along Delaware Route 141. Along Delaware Route 141 there are a number of historic sites that trace the history of both the Du Pont family and the DuPont company. At the southwest end is DuPont’s Chestnut Run Plaza and at the northeastern end is the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children.
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April 10, 1972 (401 W. River Rd. 5: Bosler Fireproof Garage: Bosler Fireproof Garage: August 18, 1983 (423 S. 3rd St. Later called the Morrissey Garage, the city of Louisville began demolition of the building April 11–12, 2015 [5]
The Brandywine Creek is in the immediate foreground and right. The stone building in the center of the picture is the original clubhouse of the Dupont Country Club which has now been displaced to the upper left of the photo. The Nemours Mansion and Gardens is seen in the upper center. Hagley Museum is off the picture to the immediate left.
St. Jones Hundred was created in 1682, and was renamed Dover Hundred in 1823; Dover Hundred was subsequently divided into East Dover Hundred and West Dover Hundred in 1859. Murderkill Hundred was created in 1682 and was divided into North Murderkill Hundred and South Murderkill Hundred in 1855.
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]