Site of General Weedon’s Foray at Spring Grove
NCC-264: On September 8, 1777, General George Washington and his Continentals were pursuing British forces headed north along Limestone Road to seize Philadelphia following the Battle of Cooch’s Bridge. General George Weedon advanced his Continental brigade to a hillside east of Mill Creek at what is now known as Spring Grove. British forces advanced to […]
Washington’s Earthworks
NCC-33: From September 4-9, 1777, approximately 11,000 men under the command of General George Washington encamped on the grounds of what later became Delcastle Technical High School. The American army occupied a strong defensive position on the east side of Red Clay Creek between Newport, Stanton, and Marshallton, and blocked the British army’s route to […]
Joseph Tatnall House
NCC-A2: Built about 1760. Anthony Wayne’s headquarters 1777. Generals Washington, Lafayette, Wayne and other officers met here to hold council and hear reports prior to Battle of Brandywine. Later occupied by British. Joseph Tatnall owned and operated original flour mills on the Brandywine, and supplied flour to Continental Army. Installed in 1932. Sponsors: Historic Markers […]
The Daniel Nichols House
NC-228: British General Sir William Howe embarked on a campaign to capture the city of Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War in 1777. While marching from Cooch’s Bridge to Kennett Square onward to the Battle of Brandywine Howe and his army passed through Mill Creek Hundred. The army ransacked farms taking livestock and supplies. The house […]
Robert Kirkwood, Jr.
NCC-34: Born in 1756, Robert Kirkwood, Jr. spent his youth on the family farm several miles north of Newark. Kirkwood eventually enrolled at the Newark Academy, later to become the University of Delaware. When the American Revolution began, Kirkwood was commissioned first lieutenant in the Delaware Regiment under the command of Colonel John Haslet. He […]
