New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad Right-of-Way is a

railroad right of way A right-of-way (ROW, not to be confused with "right of way" without hyphens) is a right to make a way over a piece of land, usually to and from another piece of land. A right of way is a type of easement granted or reserved over the land for tr ...

connecting Frenchtown,

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. The

New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad The New Castle and Frenchtown Turnpike and Rail Road (NC&F) was opened in 1831, was the first railroad in Delaware and one of the first railroads in the United States, first in the United States. About half of the route was abandoned in 1859; the ...

originally crossed the Delmarva Peninsula from a wharf in New Castle to a wharf at Frenchtown on the Elk River in Maryland. This part of the right-of-way is abandoned for railroad purposes, although parts of it serve as county roads. On the Cecil County side of this segment of the line, the track bed had been abandoned by 1858. The County Commissioners turned it into "a common neighborhood road," the Cecil Whig reported. It was listed on the

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in 1976.

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* *, including photo in 1975, at Maryland Historical Trust Rail infrastructure on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Rail infrastructure on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Historic American Engineering Record in Delaware Transportation in Cecil County, Maryland Geography of New Castle County, Delaware Geography of Cecil County, Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Cecil County, Maryland National Register of Historic Places in New Castle County, Delaware {{CecilCountyMD-NRHP-stub