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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM70W_saint-joseph-church_Wilmington-DE.html
The cradle of African-American Catholicism in Delaware, St. Joseph Church was organized in 1889 by Father John A. DeRuyter of the Josephites. Services were first held in the basement of St. Mary's Church on 6th and Pine Streets. Incorporated as St…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM70U_cool-spring-park_Wilmington-DE.html
With the completion of Cool Spring Reservoir in 1877, an adjoining parcel of unused land was reserved for park purposes. Formally designated as Cool Spring Park, the grounds were managed by the Wilmington Water Department until 1967, when the City…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM70T_site-of-old-cathedral-cemetery_Wilmington-DE.html
In May 1852, this parcel of land was purchased by Bishop (now Saint) John N. Neumann of Philadelphia. From the early 1850s through the late 1870s, this was the primary cemetery for Wilmington's Catholics. Those buried here represented all walks of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM70R_howard-high-school_Wilmington-DE.html
Founded in 1867 by the Association for the Moral Improvement and Education of Colored People and named for Civil War General Oliver Otis Howard, the original school was located at 12th and Orange Streets.
Pierre S. DuPont was the major benefact…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM35Q_louis-l-redding-city-county-building_Wilmington-DE.html
Named in honor of Delaware's first Afro-American attorney, graduate of Howard High School, Brown University, and Harvard Law School, admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1929, pioneer in the struggle for equality and tireless advocate in civil rights c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GM_brown-v-board-of-education_Wilmington-DE.html
Delaware remained a racially segregated society until the mid-twentieth century. Though the segregation of public schools was supported by the "separate but equal" doctrine that had been upheld by the nation's highest court, the facilities and ser…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AB_ebright-azimuth_Wilmington-DE.html
The highest benchmark monument in Delaware is located on Ebright Road. This horizontal control mark denotes an elevation of 447.85 feet above sea level. The Delaware Geological Society through its relationship with the National Geodetic Survey has…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12L_gravesite-of-bishop-peter-spencer-1779-1843_Wilmington-DE.html
Born a slave, Bishop Spencer was the father of Delaware's independent Black church movement. In 1813, he founded the Union Church of Africans, presently known as the African Union Methodist Protestant Church. The mother AUMP church stood on this s…