Military organizations; Military mobilizations; Soldiers; Military officers
Roster of officers and enlisted men of Company B (Lammot du Pont's company), 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry. The roster includes names, ages, where the men lived, and brief comments on some individuals.
Written on back of image: "Photograph of 'Greenbank' in Rochdale, England, where Jacob Bright lived, and afterwards his son Thomas. This came from the home of William P. and Emma C. Bancroft, 'Rockford', Wilmington, Delaware, 5th Month, 1929....
Caption: "Superintendant's Home, Brandywine Plant, across from Hagley Office. This dwelling house is near the Lower Hagley Works, diagonally across the road from the former Christ Church Sunday School Building, the latter better known as the Hagley...
Written on back of image: "Came to Rockford as Bleacher and Dyer Jan 9, 1862 (Lived in J. Morton Poole house). (John Bancroft, [illegible] worked under in Starch Room, [illegible] in 1877 when he first came to Wilmington)"
text on back: ""The powderman is William McDowell. He lived in Chicken Alley and worked in the yards until they closed. He then moved to the Forty Acres section of Wilmington and tended boilers at the Bancroft Mills."" Source: Letter dated August...
Below Cope's Bridge is a high hill (about 70 feet high) known as Deborah's Rock. Legend is that an Indian maiden jumped from the rock to the Brandywine to escape white man's attention. Historians claim it was named for Abiah Taylor's daughter,...
A view of Deborah's Rock near Cope's Bridge - named either for Abiah Taylor's daughter, who lived nearby, or, as legend says, named for an Indian maiden who jumped from the rock into the Brandywine River.
Edward Tatnall, father of Joseph Tatnall, lived here and conducted Wawaset Nursery, now at 19th Street. His barn was close to Nineteenth and Washington Streets. He arrived in the U.S. in 1735.
Designed in 1881 by Theophilus Parsons Chandler, Pelleport was originally inhabited by William du Pont and his wife May Lammot du Pont. A number of du Pont family members lived in the house through the early twentieth century, but Pelleport was...
Designed in 1881 by Theophilus Parsons Chandler, Pelleport was originally inhabited by William du Pont and his wife May Lammot du Pont. A number of du Pont family members lived in the house through the early twentieth century, but Pelleport was...
On the northwest corner of west Market Street and Front Street, this cypress-shingled home was built by Judge Peter Robinson, circa 1810, and lived in by various judges, hence the name. An office is nearby.
