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Delaware Boundary Markers is a national historic district located on the State boundary lines between Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. The district includes 94 contributing sites along the Mason–Dixon line and includes the Transpeninsular Line , "Post Marked West" site, Mason–Dixon line, Tangent Line, The Arc, and The Twelve-Mile Circle .
It is nominally a circle with an approximate and variable 12-mile (19 km) radius, [3] centered in the town of New Castle, Delaware. In 1750, the center of the circle was fixed at the cupola of the courthouse in New Castle. The Twelve-Mile Circle continues into the Delaware River. A small portion of the circle, known as the "Arc Line," forms ...
The Walking Purchase, also known as the Walking Treaty, was a 1737 agreement between the family of William Penn, the original proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania, and the Lenape native Indians. In the purchase, the Penn family and proprietors claimed that a 1686 treaty with the Lenape ceded an area of 1,200,000 acres (4,860 km 2) in ...
Delaware & Lehigh Canal National and State Heritage Corridor (DLNHC) is a 165-mile (266 km) National Heritage Area in eastern Pennsylvania in the United States. It stretches from north to south, across five counties and over one hundred municipalities. It follows the historic routes of the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad, Lehigh Valley Railroad ...
The Colonial Germantown Historic District is a designated National Historic Landmark District in the Germantown and Mount Airy neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania along both sides of Germantown Avenue. This road followed a Native American path from the Delaware River just north of Old City Philadelphia, through Germantown, about 6 miles ...
Eddystone, Pennsylvania. Location in Delaware County and the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. / 39.85944°N 75.34083°W / 39.85944; -75.34083. Eddystone is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,410 at the 2010 census.
The locations of the historical markers, as well as the latitude and longitude coordinates as provided by the PHMC's database, are included below when available. There are 56 historical markers located in Delaware County. [1] Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as:
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Delaware County, Pennsylvania" The following 97 pages are in this category, out of 97 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .