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Tavistock, Delaware
Tavistock is an unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. It is within ZIP Code Tabulation Area for 19803. Geography Tavistock is northwest of Wilmington in the Brandywine Hundred. It is located on U.S. Route 202 northwest of Mt. Lebanon Road between Talleyville and Rockland. It abuts both Brandywine Creek State Park Brandywine Creek State Park is a state park, located north of Wilmington, Delaware along the Brandywine Creek. Open year-round, it is in area and much of the park was part of a Du Pont family estate and dairy farm before becoming a state park ... and Woodley Park, where Husbands Run, a tributary to the creek which runs through the neighborhood, rises. The community includes 176 homes. History Tavistock was originally developed by Woodlawn Trustees, The land on which it is sited once belonged to E.B. Talley, for whom nearby Talleyville is named. It was acquired in 1906 by Woodlawn Trustees, which had been created in 1901 by Qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unincorporated Area
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have no unincorporated areas at all or these are very rare: typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or List of uninhabited regions, uninhabited areas. By country Argentina In Argentina, the provinces of Chubut Province, Chubut, Córdoba Province (Argentina), Córdoba, Entre Ríos Province, Entre Ríos, Formosa Province, Formosa, Neuquén Province, Neuquén, Río Negro Province, Río Negro, San Luis Province, San Luis, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Santa Cruz, Santiago del Estero Province, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, and Tucumán Province, Tucumán have areas that are outside any municipality or commune. Australia Unlike many other countries, Australia has only local government in Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockland, Delaware
Rockland is an unincorporated community in northern New Castle County, Delaware, United States. It lies along Rockland Road north of the city of Wilmington, the county seat of New Castle County. Its elevation is 194 feet (59 m). It has a post office with the ZIP code of 19732. The Rockland Historic District and William Young House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Other landmarks Woodley Park and Mount Lebanon United Methodist Church. President of the American Coffee Company William Bruce Castor was a native of Rockland and grew up in the William Young House William Young House is a historic home located near Rockland, New Castle County, Delaware. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is just uphill from the Rockland Historic District, on Black Gates Road acro .... References Unincorporated communities in New Castle County, Delaware Unincorporated communities in Delaware {{Delaware-geo-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Wellford Leavitt
Charles Wellford Leavitt (1871–1928) was an American landscape architect, urban planner, and civil engineer who designed everything from elaborate gardens on Long Island, New York and New Jersey estates to federal parks in Cuba, hotels in Puerto Rico, plans of towns in Florida, New York and elsewhere. New York publisher Julius David Stern called Leavitt "a rare combination of engineer, artist, and diplomat", and the multi-faceted career chosen by Leavitt, veering between public and private commissions and embracing everything from hard-edged engineering to sensuous garden design, and calling for negotiations with everyone from wealthy entrepreneurs to county commissioners, called for an individual with singular talents. Leavitt was one of the preeminent landscape architects of his era and helped found the study of landscape architecture at New York City's Columbia University, where he was one of the first three professors in the University's new four-year program in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edenridge, Delaware
Edenridge is an unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States in the Brandywine Hundred, north of Wilmington. Geography Edenridge lies west of Concord Pike (U.S. Route 202) and east of Brandywine Creek State Park. Edenridge is located near the intersection of Mt. Lebanon Road and Sharpley Road between of Talleyville and Rockland. It is part of the ZIP Code Tabulation Area for 19803. The grounds of Mount Lebanon Methodist Episcopal Church lie on a western edge of the subdivision. Husbands Run, a tributary of Brandywine Creek, flows through the community. Woodley Park abuts the neighborhood. History Like neighboring Sharpley, Woodbrook and Tavistock, Edenridge was developed by Woodlawn Trustees. The neighborhoods were included in the master plan for development of the Brandywine Hundred created by Charles Wellford Leavitt Charles Wellford Leavitt (1871–1928) was an American landscape architect, urban planner, and civil engineer who design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharpley, Delaware
Sharpley is an unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States in the Brandywine Hundred. It is within ZIP Code Tabulation Area for 19803. Geography Sharpley is located west of U.S. Route 202, north of Wilmington It lies between Rockland and Talleyville and adjacent to Woodbrook, Tavistock, and Edenridge. Husbands Run and its tributary Willow Run rise in the neighborhood. History The name Sharpley is from a farmer in the area first recorded in 1691. Like neighboring Woodbrook, Edenridge, and Tavistock, Sharpley was developed by Woodlawn Trustees. The process began in the 1950s and continued into the 1970s. Notable person *Gregory Lavelle Gregory F. Lavelle is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the Delaware General Assembly from 2001 to 2019, serving in both the Delaware Senate and the Delaware House of Representatives. In the 2018 midterm elections, he lost his ..., Republican member of the Delaware General Assembly from 2001 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodbrook, Delaware
Woodbrook is a suburban community in New Castle County, Delaware. Geography Woodbrook is located approximately three miles north of Wilmington and is part of unincorporated Brandywine Hundred of New Castle County, west of Concord Pike (U.S. Route 202) and east of Brandywine Creek State Park. It is adjacent DuPont Country Club, and has entrances from Rockland Road, Blackgates Road, and Sharpley Road. It is part of the ZIP Code Tabulation Area for 19803. The William Young House is located in the neighborhood, the land on which is sited set aside for the historic monument during the final subdivision in 1959. Husbands Run and its tributary Willow Run flow through the neighborhood. Many DuPont historic sites are located nearby. History Woodbrook was planned as early as 1948. It is a deed-restricted planned community of 215 single-family homes, developed beginning in 1952 by Woodlawn Trustees, an organization set up by conservationist William Poole Bancroft to preserve open lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alapocas, Delaware
Alapocas Run State Park is a state park, located in Wilmington, Delaware, United States, along the Brandywine Creek and its Alapocas Run tributary. Open year-round, it is in area. Much of the state park was created from land originally preserved by William Poole Bancroft in the early 1900s to be used as open space parkland by the city of Wilmington as it expanded. The park also includes the Blue Ball Barn, a dairy barn built by Alfred I. du Pont as part of his Nemours estate in 1914. In addition to walking trails, athletic fields, and playgrounds for children, one of the park's primary features is a rock climbing wall. The rock climbing wall is part of an old quarry across from historic Bancroft Mills on the Brandywine, and the quarry is also used for school educational programs centered on earth sciences. Park history Alapocas Run was originally created as a 123 acre city park named Alapocas Woods. In 1910 when Alfred I. du Pont was building his Nemours estate from DuPon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandywine Creek (Christina River Tributary)
Brandywine Creek (also called the Brandywine River) is a tributary of the Christina River in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware in the United States. The Lower Brandywine (the main stem) is longU.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 and is a designated Pennsylvania Scenic River with several tributary streams. The East Branch and West Branch of the creek originate within 2 miles (3 km) of each other on the slopes of Welsh Mountain in Honey Brook Township, Pennsylvania, about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of their confluence. The mouth of the creek on the Christina River in present-day Wilmington, Delaware, is the site of the New Sweden colony, where colonists first landed on March 29, 1638. The Battle of Brandywine was fought around the creek near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 1777, during the American Revolution. Water-powered gristmills in Brandywine Village ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Poole Bancroft
William Poole Bancroft (July 12, 1835 – April 20, 1928) was an American industrialist who later became an important figure in the land conservation movement. His belief that the beauty of the Brandywine region should be protected against urban sprawl for future generations led to him purchasing large amounts of land which eventually became state and federally owned park land. Early life and career William Poole Bancroft was born on July 12, 1835, in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. His father was Joseph Bancroft, a member of a prominent Quaker family who started his own milling company, Bancroft Mills, in 1831, just a few years before William's birth. His mother was Sarah Poole, the daughter of a Quaker miller and silversmith, William Poole, after whom Bancroft was named. William had a younger brother, Samuel, who was born in 1840. Both of his parents were Quakers, and his father in particular was very religious and active in the Quaker community. William was educated ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Husbands Run
Husbands Run is a long tributary to Brandywine Creek in New Castle County, Delaware north of Wilmington, Delaware. It rises in Woodley Park between the Tavistock Woodbrook, Sharpley and Edenridge neighborhoods. It flows through DuPont Country Club, where it is joined by the Willow Run and mouths north of Delaware Route 141. The Husbands were early settlers to the region. See also *List of Delaware rivers A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ... References Rivers of Delaware Rivers of New Castle County, Delaware Tributaries of the Brandywine Creek {{Delaware-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandywine Creek State Park
Brandywine Creek State Park is a state park, located north of Wilmington, Delaware along the Brandywine Creek. Open year-round, it is in area and much of the park was part of a Du Pont family estate and dairy farm before becoming a state park in 1965. It contains the first two nature preserves in Delaware. These nature preserves are Tulip Tree Woods and Freshwater Marsh. Flint Woods is a satellite area of the park and has become the park's third nature preserve. Flint Woods is home to species of rare song birds and an old-growth forest. The park's forests are part of the Northeastern coastal forests ecoregion. Fourteen miles of trails run through the park, the longest being the Rocky Run Trail and the Greenway Trail. Brandywine Creek has a large population of bass, and Wilson's Run is known for its trout. Nearby parks include White Clay Creek State Park, Wilmington State Parks, and Bellevue State Park. History Much of Brandywine Creek State Park was originally a portion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
