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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QFB_judge-morris-estate_Newark-DE.html
This estate, now owned and operated by Delaware State Parks, was once known as Chestnut Hill and contains a manor house and approximately 500 acres of land. John Barclay acquired the property after the American Revolution and in 1792 built the mai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QFA_new-london-avenue-school_Newark-DE.html
The first documented public school for African-American youth in the Newark community was established in 1867 by the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. This was one of several schools established in Delaware during the post Civil Wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DPA_the-chambers-house_Newark-DE.html
Top Panel: A historic house leaves, then returns to the family. The story of the Chambers House begins in 1775 when Benjamin Chambers bought 250 acres of land and set up a sawmill on nearby White Clay Creek. His son Joseph built this house about 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18N7_purple-heart-trail-in-delaware_Newark-DE.html
Dedicated by Governor Jack A. Markell and the Military Order of the Purple Heart, Department of DelawareJuly 27, 2011 The National Purple Heart Trail Memorializes those heroic soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who have had the Purple Heart med…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14S9_talbots-fort_Newark-DE.html
Colonel George Talbot , cousin of Lord Baltimore, in defiance of William Penn's claim to Delaware,erected a fort nearby, 1684, on land of the Widow Ogle. Talbot dispossessed settlers between here and Iron Hill who refused to acknowledge Baltimore …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13AM_british-position_Newark-DE.html
On the morning of September 3, 1777, soldiers of the Hessian Field Jaeger Corps encountered American light infantry positioned in the woods and fields along this road, which led from Aikentown (Glasgow) to Cooch's Bridge. The Americans attacked th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQGV_aikens-tavern-historic-district_Newark-DE.html
In the years prior to the Revolutionary War, John Aiken commenced the operation of a tavern and storehouse at this location near the intersection of two of the major roadways of the Delmarva Peninsula. Aided by their proximity to this important cr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQFY_old-welsh-tract-church_Newark-DE.html
Oldest Primitive Baptist Church in America.This marker was presented by Delaware Chapter - Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQER_the-judge-morris-estate_Newark-DE.html
Built in the 1790s, this 2½ story gray fieldstone house is the former home of Judge Hugh M. Morris. Morris was a Delaware native, respected attorney and distinguished federal judge. He purchased the house and a large parcel of land here in 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9LP_delawares-field-of-valor_Newark-DE.html
On 3 September 1777 an American light infantry corps under the command of Brigadier General William Maxwell engaged British and Hessian forces here in the Battle of Cooch's Bridge. Maxwell's Corps was composed of soldiers from New Jersey, North Ca…