New Castle, Delaware New Castle, Delaware Old New Castle Courthouse.
Old New Castle Courthouse.
Location in New Castle County and the state of Delaware.
Location in New Castle County and the state of Delaware.
New Castle is positioned in Delaware New Castle - New Castle County New Castle Website New Castle, Delaware New Castle is a town/city in New Castle County, Delaware, six miles (10 km) south of Wilmington, situated on the Delaware River.
New Castle was originally settled by the Dutch West India Company in 1651, under the leadership of Peter Stuyvesant, on the site of a former aboriginal village, "Tomakonck" ("Place of the Beaver"), to assert their claim to the region based on a before agreement with the aboriginal inhabitants of the area.
The Dutch conquered the entire colony of New Sweden the following year and rechristened the fort Nieuw-Amstel ("New Amstel").
This marked the end of the Swedish colony in Delaware as an official entity, but it remained a semi-autonomous unit inside the New Netherland colony and the cultural, social, and theological influence of the Swedish pioneer remained strong.
In 1664, the English seized the entire New Netherland colony in the Second Anglo-Dutch War and changed the name of the town to "New Castle." In 1680, New Castle was conveyed to William Penn by the Duke of York by livery of seisin and was Penn's landing place when he first set foot on American soil on October 27, 1682.
The spire on top of the Court House, Delaware's Colonial capitol and first state home, was used as the center of the Twelve-Mile Circle forming the northern boundary of Delaware.
Thus the Delaware Memorial Bridge was assembled as an intrastate span by Delaware, without financial participation by neighboring New Jersey. Prior to the establishment of Penn's Philadelphia, New Castle was center of government.
New Castle again became the seat of the colonial government, grow with the various judges and lawyers that fueled the economy.
During the Revolution, when New Castle was besieged by William Howe, the government propel to move its functions south to Dover in May 1777, which pleased the delegates from Kent and Sussex, anyway.
New Castle remained the governmental center of county until after the Civil War, when that status was transferred to Wilmington.
Three signers of the Declaration of Independence were from New Castle Thomas Mc - Kean, George Read, and George Ross.
The 16-mile (26 km) portage between the Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay saved a 400-mile (640 km) trip around the Delmarva Peninsula, so this brought passengers, goods, and company to New Castle's port.
Later, New Castle became the easterly end of the New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad, the second-oldest rail line in the country, launched in 1828 with horse-drawn rail cars, then converting to steam power when an engine was purchased from Great Britain in 1832.
This helped the New Castle economy to further boom; however, by 1840, rail lines were in place between Philadelphia and Baltimore, which had a stop in Wilmington, thus leaving New Castle to deal with a substantial diminish in traffic and revenue.
The diminish in New Castle's economy had the long-range fortunate effect of preventing most inhabitants from making any momentous structural shifts to their homes.
So, the many buildings of historic New Castle look much as they did in the colonial and Federal periods.
New Castle has a tradition, dating back to 1927, of tours of historical homes, churches, and plant nurseries.
In the City of New Castle, many small and historical neighborhoods are inside the town/city limits.
However, many larger neighborhoods are encircling the town/city limits and are labeled as New Castle inside the general consensus.
The New Castle region ranges from the southern town/city limits of Wilmington to the north, the Delaware River to the East, Wrangle Hill Road to the South, and Bear and Christiana to the West.
City of New Castle New Castle Historic District Old Arsenal, The Green, New Castle (New Castle County, Delaware).jpg Location Roughly bounded by the Delaware River, Broad Dike, 4th, 6th,7th, and Penn Sts., New Castle, Delaware The New Castle Historic District is an region approximately 4 by 5 blocks square in the center of town with about 500 historic buildings that date from c.
New Castle was established by Peter Stuyvesant.
Cloud's Row, 117 125 Delaware Street in New Castle.
(~1738) Home of New Castle Historical Society (admission charged) Old New Castle Court House, opposite Gilpin House on Delaware St.
New Castle Academy, On the Green.
New Castle-Frenchtown RR Ticket House, Foot of Delaware St.
Also close-by are Buena Vista, Glebe House, The Hermitage, New Castle Ice Piers, Penn Farm of the Trustees of the New Castle Common, and Swanwyck, all listed on the National Register of Historic Places. New Castle is positioned at 39 39 43 N 75 33 59 W (39.6620572, 75.5663132)GR1.
New Castle is served by the Colonial School District and the New Castle Public Library.
Private schools positioned in New Castle include Serviam Girls Academy and Tall Oaks Classical School.
New Castle has served as the recording locale for various films and tv series, including Dead Poets Society, Beloved, and River Ridge.
New Castle, Delaware Community History and Archaeology Program (Jeannette Eckman.
Wilmington, Delaware: Historical Society of Delaware.
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Patricia Heintzelman and Charles Snell (August 30, 1974), National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: New Castle (pdf), National Park Service and Accompanying 20 photos, from 1967 and 1974 (7.82 MB) Old New Castle also gets plenty of screen time with private homes, Delaware Street and Gunning Bedford Middle School each hosting film crews.
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Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclop dia Britannica article New Castle.
Virtual tour of New Castle's historic sites City of New Castle New Castle Historical Society Map of the New Castle Historic District Three Museums, Four Centuries of New Castle's History New Castle Presbyterian Church New Castle Community History and Archaeology Program (NC-CHAP) Out of the Hurly-Burly A book about life in New castle about 1870 Municipalities and communities of New Castle County, Delaware, United States Categories: Federal architecture in Delaware - New Castle, Delaware - Former colonial and territorial capitals in the United States - Populated places established in 1651 - Cities in New Castle County, Delaware - Cities in Delaware - Former county seats in Delaware - 1651 establishments in the Dutch Empire
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