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Holy Trinity Church, also known as Old Swedes, is a historic church at East 7th and Church Street in Wilmington, Delaware. It was consecrated on Trinity Sunday, June 4, 1699, by a predominantly Swedish congregation formerly of the colony of New Sweden. [3] The church, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, is among the few surviving ...
www .nccde .org. New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware (New Castle, Kent, and Sussex ). As of the 2020 census, the population was 570,719, [2] making it the most populous county in Delaware, with nearly 60% of the state's population of 989,948. The county seat is Wilmington, [3] which is also ...
76000577 [1] Added to NRHP. November 07, 1976. Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house at 4th and West Streets in Wilmington, Delaware in the Quaker Hill neighborhood. The meeting is still active with a membership of about 400 and is part of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. It was built in 1815–1817 and added to the National ...
Swedes' Landing is the warehouse road found along the Minquas Kill in Wilmington, Delaware that is close to the Delaware River. This was the site where the initial Swedish landing took place and marks the spot where the New Sweden colony began. The first Swedish expedition to North America, under the command of Peter Minuit, embarked from the ...
At 5 p.m. there will be a speakers' tribute and a concert featuring the Brazeal Dennard Chorale. The funeral service will be on Friday, Dec. 15, beginning with a processional at 9 a.m., followed ...
The Delaware College of Art and Design is the state's smallest institution of higher learning with an enrollment of 111. Wilmington University is Delaware's largest private post-secondary institution, with an enrollment of 19,295. Delaware has two land-grant universities: Delaware State University and the University of Delaware.
February 24, 1971, October 21, 1976 (Boundary Increase) Brandywine Village Historic District is a national historic district located along Brandywine Creek at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It encompasses 12 contributing buildings, 7 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures. Brandywine Village developed in the late-18th ...
First State National Historical Park is a National Park Service unit which lies primarily in the state of Delaware but which extends partly into Pennsylvania in Chadds Ford. Initially created as First State National Monument by President Barack Obama under the Antiquities Act on March 25, 2013, the park was later redesignated as First State ...