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In 1971, the estate was given to the Lutheran Church of America. In 1985, Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation and the Fairmount Park Commission assumed ownership of the property. Today, the estate is operated as a historic house museum, whose grounds are a public park. [3] Glen Foerd was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The Baltimore Mills Historic Archaeological Site is a historic industrial mill site in Sussex County, Delaware.It consists of an 18th-century mill complex that included water-powered gristmills and sawmills.
Bellevue Lake is a reservoir created by the impounding of Stoney Creek in 1936. [ 7 ] it has a capacity of 100 millions gallons of water. [ 8 ] Bellevue Lake is a remnant of the Old Bellevue Quarry, [ 9 ] which was allowed to fill. [ 10 ] (
Frankford Creek [1] is a minor tributary of the Delaware River in southeast Pennsylvania.It derived its name from today's Frankford, Philadelphia neighborhood.. The stream originates as Tookany Creek [citation needed] at Hill Crest in Cheltenham Township and meanders eastward, then southeastward, throughout Cheltenham Township, until a sharp bend near the Philadelphia border at Lawncrest ...
Brandywine Creek State Park is a state park, located 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Wilmington, Delaware along the Brandywine Creek.Open year-round, it is 933 acres (378 ha) in area and much of the park was part of a Du Pont family estate and dairy farm before becoming a state park in 1965.
Frankford is a town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. The population was 847 at the 2010 census , an increase of 18.6% over the previous decade. [ 3 ] It is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Thomas Holme's Survey Map (1687) Frankford is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Philadelphia situated about six miles (10 km) northeast of Center City.Although its borders are vaguely defined, the neighborhood is bounded roughly by the original course of Frankford Creek on the south to Castor Avenue on the northwest and southwest, to Cheltenham Avenue on the north, and to Aramingo ...
Nemours Estate from the front. The Nemours Estate is a 200-acre (81 ha) country estate with jardin à la française formal gardens and a French neoclassical mansion in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. Built to resemble a French château, its 105 rooms on four floors occupy nearly 47,000 sq ft (4,400 m 2).