Montchanin is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in New Castle County,

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, United States. Montchanin is located at the intersection of Delaware Route 100 and Kirk Road to the northwest of Wilmington. The community received a post office and permanent railroad station in 1889, at which time it acquired the name Montchanin in honor of Anne Alexandrine de Montchanin, mother of

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours ( , ; 14 December 1739 – 7 August 1817) was a French-American writer, economist, publisher and government official. During the French Revolution, he, his two sons and their families migrated to the United ...

. Prior to that time, the village rail stop was named DuPont Station in honor of the nearby duPont powder works.The Inn at Montchanin Village
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, is located there. The Jacob Broom House, Montchanin Historic District, and Strand Millas and Rock Spring are listed on the

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