List of DuPont historic sites along Delaware Route 141
Along Delaware Route 141 there are a number of historic sites that trace the history of both the Du Pont family and the DuPont company.
DuPont Chestnut Run Plaza is a 240-acre (0.97 km2) research facility located on the northeast corner of Center and Faulkland Roads in Wilmington, Delaware.
DuPont business currently operating at the facility carry out research on fibers, imaging and printing, agrochemicals, polymers, and most recently hydrogen fuel-cells.
Pelleport passed to cousin, Eugene du Pont Sr. whose family occupied the property for 2 generations.
The residence stood vacant for over 25 years until it was razed in 1954 to make room for the Eugene du Pont Convalescent Memorial Hospital.
It was the former home of Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969), a renowned collector of antiques and horticulturist.
The rolling countryside makes the annual Sunday Point-to-Point[9] steeplechases, the carriage, buggy and surrey parade, the running of the hounds, and elegant tailgating a rite of spring in northern Delaware.
The property that is now Longwood Gardens was originally purchased from William Penn in 1700 by a fellow Quaker named George Peirce.
In 1798 Joshua and Samuel Peirce planted the first specimens of an arboretum and by 1850 they had amassed one of the finest collections of trees in the nation.
Pierre S. du Pont purchased the property from the Peirce family in 1906 to save the arboretum from being sold for lumber.
It is the home parish of United States President Joe Biden and several officers of the DuPont Company.
Raskob had been an early investor in General Motors and had engineered DuPont's ownership of 43% of GM, purchased from the financially troubled William C. Durant.
He was the builder of the Empire State Building and the project was financed jointly with Pierre S. du Pont.
The Foundation is for the purpose of contributing exclusively to religious, charitable, literary and educational activities that will aid the Roman Catholic Church and institutions and organizations that are identified with it on an international basis.
The estate has been divided and is now occupied primarily by the facilities of The Automation Partnership, a company devoted to high throughput screening, genomics automation, informatics, robotic cell culture, liquid handling and compound storage and retrieval.
It provides a glimpse at early American industry and includes restored mills, a workers' community, and the ancestral home and gardens of the du Pont family.
Along the way it flows past Hagley Museum and Library where it powered the powder mills of the early Dupont company.
The land immediately across the Brandywine Creek from Eleutherian Mills was owned by DuPont for safety reasons.
It was also the location of the original nine holes of the DuPont Country Club, but this golf course was pushed northeastward by the gradual expansion of the Experimental Station.
The DuPont Experimental Station is the largest research and development facility of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company and is home to some of the most important discoveries of the modern chemical industry.
Red-tailed hawks and red fox keep populations in control and a nearby colony of turkey vultures keep the grounds free of carrion.
The mansion resembles a Château and contains more than seventy rooms spread over five floors occupying nearly 47,000 sq ft (4,400 m2).
It is controlled by the Nemours Foundation, a non-profit organization created by philanthropist Alfred I. du Pont in 1936.
With the conviction that it is the duty of everyone to do what is within his power to alleviate human suffering, he bestowed an estate valued at $40 million for the creation of a charitable corporation devoted primarily to providing health care services to children.
The original DuPont Course, a 9-hole layout with clay tees and sand greens was designed by Wilfrid Reid, and constructed in 1921.
