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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM110I_in-memory-of-philip-and-lydia-laird_New-Castle-DE.html
Former owners of the Read House, their home for fifty-five years. They were longtime benefactors of New Castle doing much to encourage and promote the preservation and architectural beauty of this colonial town.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM110F_george-read_New-Castle-DE.html
born A.D. 1732Died 21st September 1798Member of the Congress of the Revolution.The Convention that framed the Constitutionof the U. S. and ofThe first Senate under it.Judge of admiraltyPresident and Chief Justiceof Delaware and a signer of theDecl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTJZ_pea-patch-island-heronry_New-Castle-DE.html
Pea Patch Island Heronry is the largest Atlantic Coast nesting ground north of Florida for wading birds. Originally a dredge disposal site, this vegetated high ground has been a nesting habitat for nine species of wading birds since the 1970s. It …
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/HM96G_st-johns-lodge-no-2_New-Castle-DE.html
First chartered by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania as Lodge No. 33 on April 3, 1781. Early meetings were held alternately at Christiana Bridge and New Castle. This was one of four Lodges whose representatives gathered in Wilmington on June 6 and 7…