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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQB8_chester-bethel-united-methodist-church_Wilmington-DE.html
The roots of this congregation can be traced to the efforts of Methodist pioneer Thomas Webb, who visited this area to spread the message of his faith in the years prior to the American Revolution. Influenced by his sincerity and eloquence, a loca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQB7_chester-bethel-united-methodist-church-veterans-memorial_Wilmington-DE.html
In memory ofthose who servedin the Armed Forces
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN73_old-st-annes_Middletown-DE.html
As early as 1705 a log chapel was established at '' Appoquinimy' by the S.P.G. with the Rev. Thomas Jenkins appointed its first missionary, 1708. Queen Anne of England, for whom the Church was named, is said to have been a patron. This Church was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGYD_home-of-george-read_New-Castle-DE.html
Site of home of George Read. Born September 18, 1733. Died September 21, 1798. Member of The Congress of the Revolution. The convention that framed The Constitution of The United States, and of the first senate under it. Judge of Admiralty, Presid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGYC_packet-alley_New-Castle-DE.html
Packet boats from Philadelphia met stage coaches here for Frenchtown, Maryland, chief line of communication from North to Baltimore and South. Andrew Jackson, David Crockett, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Lord Ashburton, Sam Houston, Louis Napoleon,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGYB_gunning-bedford-house_New-Castle-DE.html
Built about 1760. Home of Gunning Bedford, eleventh governor of Delaware. Born 1742. Lieut-Col. in Haslet's Delaware Regiment. Wounded in Battle of White Plains 1776. Presidential Elector 1788. Also home of Caleb P. Bennett, twenty-ninth governor …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGXP_broad-dyke_New-Castle-DE.html
Original dyke built by Dutch 1655. Centre of Twelve Mile Circle marking top of Delaware, surveyed 1701, by Empson and Pusey.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGXO_frenchtown-railroad-sleepers_New-Castle-DE.html
These stones were sleepers in the New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad. Completed in 1831. The first railroad in Delaware and one of the first in the United States.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGXN_site-of-fort-casimir_New-Castle-DE.html
One hundred feet to the East of this point is the site of Fort Casimir. Erected by Dutch in 1651. Taken by Swedes 1654, called Fort Trafaldigheets or Trinity, retaken by Dutch under Petrus Stuyvesant in person September 11, 1655.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEB2_sally-port_Delaware-City-DE.html
In its original state, heavy iron-studded oak doors (like the one before you) stood at both ends of the sally port. Large granite blocks, quarried in Quincy, Massachusetts, line its walls. A sample of the fort's fine brickwork can be seen on the c…