New Castle County Markers

• AIKEN’S TAVERN
• AMERICAN POSITION
• ANTHONY – DELAWARE’S FIRST KNOWN BLACK SETTLER
• APPOQUINIMINK FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE
• ASHLEY MANSION
• BETHEL A.M.E. CHURCH
• BETHEL CHURCH
• BLOCK HOUSE
• BRANDYWINE VILLAGE
• BRITISH POSITION
• BROAD DYKE
• BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION
• BUENA VISTA
• CAESAR RODNEY’S CAMP, 1777
• CAMP BRANDYWINE
• CAMP DUPONT
• CHESTER-BETHEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
• CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
  DELAWARE CITY
• CHRISTIANA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
• CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION
• CLAYMONT STONE SCHOOL
• CLEARFIELD FARM
• COMMODORE THOMAS McDONOUGH
• COOL SPRING PARK
• DEER PARK HOTEL
• DELAWARE CITY SCHOOL #118C
• DUNCAN BEARD
• DuPONT POWDER MILLS
• EASTBURN-JEANES MINING COMPLEX
• EBENEZER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
• EBRIGHT AZIMUTH
• EDEN PARK
• EDMUND CANTWELL
• ENCAMPMENT OF CONTINENTAL TROOPS 1777
• FRANK E. SCHOONOVER STUDIOS
• GIBRALTAR
• GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
• GRAVESITE OF BISHOP PETER SPENCER (1779-1843)
• GUNNING BEDFORD, JR.
• HEAD OF CHRISTIANA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
• HOCKESSIN SCHOOL #107C
• NC- 137
• HOWARD HIGH SCHOOL
• INDIAN TREATY
• IRON HILL
• JOHN McKINLY
• KENTMERE PARKWAY
• LAFAYETTE
• LANDING PLACE OF WILLIAM PENN
• LOCUST GROVE
• Home Of Governor Joshua Clayton
• LONG HOOK FARM
• LONG HOOK
• MASON AND DIXON LINE
• MASON AND DIXON’S TANGENT STONE
• McDONOUGH BURIAL GROUND
• MEETING HOUSE
• MEETING PLACE OF WASHINGTON’S OFFICERS
• MIDDLETOWN
• MOUNT LEBANON
• UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
• MOUNT OLIVE CEMETERY
• NAAMAN’S BRIDGE
• NAAMAN’S CREEK
• NEW CASTLE AND FRENCHTOWN RAILROAD NC 26
• NEW CASTLE AND FRENCHTOWN RAILROAD NC 29
• NEW CASTLE AND FRENCHTOWN RAILROAD NC 44
• NEW CASTLE COMMON NC 13
• NEW CASTLE COMMON NC 14
• NEW CASTLE NC 21
• NEW CASTLE NC 30
• NEW CASTLE NC 31
• NEW CASTLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
• NEW CENTURY CLUB
• NEWARK ACADEMY
• NEWARK UNION
• NEWARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
• ODESSA
• OLD CLAYMONT HIGH SCHOOL
• OLD DRAWYERS
• OLD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
• OLD ST. ANNE’S P.E. CHURCH
• OLD SWEDES’ CHURCH
• OLD UNION METHODIST CHURCH
• OLD FEEDER CANAL
• OLIVER EVANS
• ORIENTAL LODGE #12, I.O.O.F.
• PACKET ALLEY
• PENCADER CHURCH
• PENCADER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
• PORT PENN FRONT RANGE LIGHT
• PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
• PRIDE OF DELAWARE LODGE #349 IBPOEW
• R. T. FOARD AND JONES FUNERAL HOME
• ROBERT KIRKWOOD
• ROBINSON HOUSE
• ROCKFORD TOWER
• SAINT MARY’S CHURCH
• SAMUEL DAVIES
• SAMUEL PATTERSON
• SCOTT AME ZION CHURCH
• SGT. JAMES P. CONNOR MEMORIAL CIRCLE
• SITE OF BELLANCA AIRFIELD
• SITE OF CRANE HOOK CHURCH
• SITE OF DuPONT AIRFIELD
• SITE OF FORT CASIMIR
• SOUTH WILMINGTON
• SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH
• SWANWYCK
• TAYLOR’S BRIDGE SCHOOL
• THE BEAR
• THE DARLEY HOUSE
• THE GREEN OR MARKET PLAINE
• THE REVERSE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
• THE RIVER ROAD
• THE ROCKS
• THE STONE MANSION
• THE VILLAGE OF ARDEN
• THE WEDGE NC 36
• THE WEDGE NC 37
• THOMAS GARRETT
• TOWN HALL AND MARKET HOUSE
• WASHINGTON DINED HERE
• WASHINGTON’S EARTHWORKS
• WASHINGTON’S FORTIFICATIONS
• WASHINGTON’S RECONNAISANCE
• WELCH TRACT CHURCH
• WELSH TRACT NC 39
• WELSH TRACT NC 47
• WILMINGTON FRIENDS MEETING
• WILMINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL
• WILMINGTON NC 67
• THE HOME OF
  WILLIAM JULIUS “JUDY” JOHNSON

GRAVESITE OF BISHOP PETER SPENCER (1779-1843)

AND HIS DEVOTED WIFE, ANNES

Born a slave, Bishop Spencer was the father of Delaware’s independent Black church movement. In 1813, he founded the Union Church of Africans, presently known as the African Union Methodist Protestant Church. The mother AUMP church stood on this site from 1813 to 1970. The Union America Methodist Episcopal Church (UNME), formally organized in 1865, traces its origins to Spencer. He was also the founder of “August Quarterly” in 1813, one of the oldest Black folk festivals in America.

NC-84

LOCATION: Wilmington - French Street in Plaza

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