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New Castle County Delaware



  • Historic Sites & Districts
  • Amstel House
  • Ashton
  • Glebe House
  • Hermitage
  • Lesley-Travers Mansion
  • New Castle
  • New Castle Courthouse
  • Swanwyck
  • Aukens Tavern
  • Ardens
  • Auburn Mills
  • Bancroft Mills
  • Baynard Blvd
  • Brandywine Park
  • Brandywine Powder Mills
  • Brandywine Village
  • Brecks Mill
  • Christiana
  • Church Street
  • Coochs Bridge
  • Cool Spring Park
  • Delaware Avenue
  • Delaware City
  • Eighth Street Park
  • Eleutherian Mills
  • Fell
  • Fort DuPont
  • Garrett Snuff Mills
  • Graves Mill
  • Lower Market Street
  • Middletown
  • Montchanin
  • Mount Cuba
  • North Saint Georges
  • Odessa
  • Old College
  • Old Town Hall
  • Port Penn
  • Quaker Hill
  • Rockland
  • Shipley Run
  • Townsend
  • Village of Arden
  • Wawaset Park
  • Wooddale

New Castle County Government Center is located at 87 Reads Way, New Castle DE 19720; New Castle City/County Building is located at 800 North French Street, Wilmington DE 19801; phone: 302-395-8383.

Photo: Old New Castle Courthouse (1936), W.S. Stewart, photographer, Historic American Buildings Survey [HABS Del-80], memory.loc.gov

The county's website carries the tagline, "The first county in the fist state." Once "place" which perhaps best encapsulates the significance, is the County Courthouse Museum, a National Historic Landmark since 1972. It was built in three sections spanning more than a century, 1730-1845. It served as the Delaware State House during colonial times, the New Castle County Courthouse after the capital was moved to Dover, is richly intertwined with the history of the underground railroad ... it's significance is well reported and fills volumes. (for more info on the this landmark property, see: New Castle Courthouse).
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