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Points of Interest in Delaware
Home » Delaware » Delaware: Overview and History » Points of Interest in DelawarePosted by Your Guide on April 26, 2006 8:57 PM
Broom, Jacob House: Montchanon, DE
Jacob Broom was a signer of the U.S. Constitution and served in the Delaware legislature as well as attending the Annapolis convention of 1786. He lived in the house from 1795 to 1802. He was also known as a premier industrialist and was the first to establish a cotton mill on the Brandywine river in 1795.
John Dickenson House: Dover, DE
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.
Fort Christina: Wilmington, DE
The fort was the site of the first Swedish military outpost, circa 1638 in the Delaware Valley, which became the center of the first Swedish settlement in North America and its trading and commercial center. It fell into disrepair after the English conquest in 1664 and except for a few rocks jutting into the river, which served as a landing site, the last vestiges of the fort have disappeared.
Lombardy Hall, Wilmington, DE
From 1793 to 1812, this place served as the home of Gunning Bedford, Jr., a delegate from Delaware to the Continental Congress and the Annapolis Convention, and a signer of the U.S. Constitution in 1787.
New Castle Historic District, New Castle, DE
New Castle was founded by Peter Stuyvesant in 1651 as the seat of the New Netherlands government, and served as the colonial capital of Delaware until 1766. The Historic District offers a broad range of architectural styles to view, which remained essentially unchanged from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
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