Site of Gilpin Mills
NC-166: originally installed in 2006. Along this curve of the Brandywine, two brothers, Joshua and Thomas Gilpin, established the first paper mill in Delaware in 1787. Their high-quality paper was handmade, one sheet at a time, from rags, carted up from nearby Wilmington. In 1795, Thomas Gilpin built a mansion overlooking the mills and called […]