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Landmarks in Delaware
Home » Delaware » Delaware: A Long Stay » Landmarks in DelawarePosted by Your Guide on April 26, 2006 8:53 PM
Aspendale, Kenton, DE
A small late-18th century plantation, with little-changed dependencies, lanes, and field divisions. The main house exemplifies the moderately-sized Georgian brick farmhouse and the persistence of Early Georgian architectural traditions in colonial Delaware. A frame wing may predate the main brick portion of the house. Private residence.
Broom, Jacob House: Montchanon, DE
Broom, a signer of the U.S. Constitution, served in the Delaware legislature and attended the Annapolis Convention (1786). He lived in this house from 1795 to 1802. Broom also was a pioneer industrialist who established the first cotton mill on the Brandywine in 1795. The house is not open to the public.
Corbit-Sharp House: ODESSA
The house, erected in 1772-4, is one of the great late Georgian houses in Delaware and the Middle Colonies. It illustrates the architectural influence of a major town on smaller towns in its region. The gardens were designed in 1932 by Marian Cruger Coffin.
John Dickenson House: DOVER
Dickenson served in the Delaware and Pennsylvania legislatures and was a member of the Stamp Act Congress, the First and Second Continental Congresses and the Constitutional Convention. His political writings, which include ‘The Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer’, earned him the title ‘Penman of the Revolution’.
The site was recently restored.
The route one takes through Delaware will determine the type of itinerary one has. The above are suggestions for places to see and things to do while in the abovementioned districts, but the framework of the actual trip would be up to the itinerant traveler.
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