Broad Dyke
NC-22: Original dyke built by Dutch 1655. Centre of twelve mile circle marking top of Delaware, surveyed 1701, by Empson and Pusey. Installed in 1932. Marker Photo Gallery: Resources Related to New Castle: Location: New Castle Veterans Triangle, New Castle, DE 19720 Near 227 Chestnut Street, New Castle, DE 19720 Links to more resources:
Commodore Thomas MacDonough
Early home of Commodore Thomas Macdonough. Hero of Battle of Lake Champlain 1814. Born in 1783. Died 1825. Commodore 1813. Assisted Commodore Decatur in capturing and burning the “Philadelphia” off the coast of Tripoli, 1804. Original name of the village “The Trap” and changed to “Macdonough” in 1814. His parents lie in old burying ground […]
Buena Vista
NC-15: originally installed in 1975. Built in 1845. John M. Clayton (1796-1856) Secretary of State in President Taylor’s cabinet. He also served Delaware as U. S. Senator, jurist and Secretary of State. He drafted the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, which eventually guaranteed that the Panama Canal would be open to ships of all nations. The house […]
New Castle Common
NCC-13: This land is part of a tract of one thousand acres set apart by William Penn in 1701 for the inhabitants of the town of New Castle. Trustees were appointed and incorporated by Penn’s heirs in 1764, whose successors still hold and manage the land. Installed in 1932. Reinstalled in 1968. Sponsors: Historic Markers […]
Gunning Bedford, Jr.
1747-1812. Member of Continental Congress and of Annapolis Convention. A framer of United States Constitution, which Delaware was first to ratify. Appointed first District Judge of Delaware by President Washington. Purchased this property 1793 as country home, naming it “Lombardy”. Buried at Tenth and Market Streets, Wilmington. Reinterred 1921 at Masonic Home. NC-6. Installed in […]
Bethel Community House
SC-264: Installed on 10/22/2018. Built in 1884 to replace an earlier structure, this site originally served as St. John’s Methodist Protestant Church. St. John’s was part of a larger group of churches that organized and conducted an annual camp meeting along Broad Creek. In 1902, St. John’s merged with Sailors Bethel United Methodist Church. The […]
St. George AME
SC-258. St. George AME church was established prior to 1880 on land donated by Peter Lewis, a free black shipbuilder, and AME church delegate. Initially, congregants met at the Old Bethel Meeting House but soon acquired a corn crib to hold services in on their own site. The adjacent plot of land on which the […]
Town of Bethel
SC-257. Bethel’s recorded history began in 1683 as a land grant called Manlove’s Grove. Kendal Lewis purchased portions of three land tracts, Manlove’s Grove, Mitchell’s Harbor and Jobs lot, from George Mitchell in 1795 and named it Lewis Warf. A small village developed around Lewis Wharf, later called Lewisville, and renamed Bethel in 1880. Bethel […]
Hebron Methodist Protestant (M.P.) Church
Hebron M.P. Church is one of nine rural Methodist Protestant Churches founded in Sussex County prior to 1888. It is the only known rural M.P. church in Sussex County to have undergone minimal alteration since its construction. The church exemplifies vernacular Greek Revival chapel architecture and retains its original interior finishes. The congregation first formed […]
Vinyard Shipbuilding
SC-255: Founded in 1896 by Wilson M. Vinyard, the Vinyard Shipbuilding Company was the first Milford shipyard to build motorized vessels. The shipyard built numerous ships for the government including Navy subchasers and Coast Guard patrol boats. In 1927, the company began manufacturing world class yachts. Construction of new vessels ceased in 1951 and the […]
