SEE DELAWARE

WHAT TO SEE IN DELAWARE

Have you really seen all of Delaware? Here is what there is to see that should be of interest to locals and visitors alike.

Swedish settlement was made on the Delaware river in the Wilmington vicinity. Here you find Old Swedes Church, Hendrickson House and the Fort Christina Monument.

Old Swedes Church is at the foot of 7^th Street, built in 1698 but now used by the

Protestant Episcopal Church. The Hendrickson House is on the church grounds, moved there from Ridley Township in Pennsylvania where it was built in 1690 as a Swedish farm house

and serve as a museum and library. The monument was given by Sweden in 1938 is also at

the foot of 7^th Street in a small park to honor the 1638 Swedish settlement.

Winterthur Museum on highway 52, Kennett Pike, between Greenville and Centerville is a museum with visitor fees but has much to offer.

On Kentmere Parkway sits the Delaware Arts Center and has a Howard Pyle art

collection .

Old Town Hall, 6^th and Market, built in 1796 is the center of a historic enclave to

include the Old Customs House and several older homes.

Hagley Museum on highway 141 is in the duPont Powder Yards on Brandywine

Creek.

Buena Vista, eight mile south of Wilmington on highway 13 , the home of John M.

Clayton and C. Douglas Buck, is a 128 year old in 1967 home.

Back in Wilmington at 5 Vandever Avenue is Old Brandywine Academy is the home

of the Caeser Rodney Chapeter of Daughters of the American Revolution.

In New Castle go see the Old Court House and capital of colonial Delaware, the

Amstel House and Old Dutch house both museums. Also visit the old churches.

In Newark is the Old College built in 1833, the Welch Tract Baptist Church of 1765

and is the oldest Primitive Baptist Church in the country. It is on road 896 out of Newark.

South of Newark is Cooch's Bridge on 896 the site of the old Revolutionary War

battle in Delaware.

Down state at Frederica see Barratt' s Chapel the cradle of the Methodist Church

now a museum.

The 1794 St. Georges Chapel holds Sunday Service every week and can be visited

by going to the nearest farm house for the key. St. Georges is in the county at Angola.

Spend all day in Dover. The old State House, Legislative Hall and the Green , 1787.

On Kings Highway see the Governors House built in 1890. Old Christ Church, 1734, has grave yard where Caesar Rodney is buried. On Governor Avenue is the Delaware State

Museum, full of history. Just outside of Dover, going southeast, is the John Dickenson

Mansion built 1740.

Odessa between Wilmington and Dover is a colonial town that has many historical

sites, the 1772 Corbit-Sharp house, the 1769 David Wilson Mansion, Friends Meeting

House built in 1783, and Old Drawyers Church, north, built in 1773.

In the river is Pea Patch Island, 1849 hold a six acre fortification with a history, used

in Civil War up to WW I until 1944 and is now a state park.

Back up state are the Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania of Samuel Pierre duPont

as his summer estate. It is open year round and has musical concerts on weekends.

Wilmington's summer swimming pools are in Cathy Park, Cedar & Clayton Streets,

Eden Park, New Castle Avenue, Kruse, 14^th & Poplar, and Price Run, Locust & 23d Street.

Valley Garden Park, off Kennett Pike is a picnic park was once a rundown farm

given to the city by Mrs Robert Wheelwright.

A novel way to spend some time is a ride on the Cape May to Lewes Ferry to take ocean side photos and enjoy the salt air of the Atlantic. Lewes holds Zwaanendael Museum, deVries Monument, Pilot Town Road and

memorials of the War of 1812. 18^th century hones and churches abound in Lewes.

Rehoboth Beach on the Atlantic coast has a sandy beach and a wooden boardwalk of

entertainments. It is home for fishing, crabbing, camping, golf, horseback riding and

summer fun houses. Henlopen Acres is home to the Rehoboth Art League.

Cape Henlopen State Park, south east of Lewes, for bathing, surf fishing, has a

camping ground and an athletic field.

Brandywine Creek State Park west of Rockland Dam on Adams Road, New

Castle County, is a nature center.

Trappe Pond State Park, on route 24 south east of Laurel, offer picnic facilities, camping, fishing, swimming and water sports.

Lums Pond, a mile south east of Kirkwood has picnic tables, grills, athletic field,

and the pond is open for swimming, fishing and boating.

Holts Landing State Park, Millville, is open to picnicking, fishing, crabbing, water

sports of all kinds.

For trail walkers, and seasonal hunting try Ellendale State Forest and Reddin State Forrest south of Ellendale on US 113.

Petersburg Wild Life area and lodge below Dover near Felton and Viola had horsback riding and hunting dog trials and training.

Assawomen Wildlife Area below Dagaboro also has horseback riding and dog hunting areas.

Abstract is from the Wilmington News Journal, article written by Frances Beach, on Tuesday ,

August, 1967.