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Old Fort Church is an historic African-American
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located on
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in Christiana,
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. The church was originally built on Schoolbell Road (in Christiana Hundred) near Christiana in 1850. In 1897, it was dismantled and reconstructed on its present site. It is a one-story, three bay by three bay, gable-roofed brick structure. It features modified lancet-type windows that illuminate the main block. The gable ends have various types of decorative wood shingles painted dark green. and It was added to the
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in 1983.


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File:Old Fort Christiana DE 1.JPG, View from the south


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Historical Marker Data Base entry
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