Read House and Gardens: Delaware Historical Society (302) 322-8411.Check with the appropriate ones listed below to make sure that the buildings and other places you want to see are open when you will be there: Pro Tip: Different societies and organizations are in charge of different sites in historic New Castle. If you need a wheelchair or mobility aids, you should be aware that while all the streets are flat, some are cobblestoned. You can also get a good idea of the town and its history on a morning or an afternoon’s walk, with a break for coffee or a meal (or, in good weather, a picnic in Battery Park). How long should you schedule to explore New Castle? You can easily spend a pleasant weekend wandering the town and visiting the sites. But you will not be the only ones who will revel in the town’s charms New Castle has been named to numerous top 10 lists of most beautiful small towns in the United States. You cannot fail to be impressed by the beauty of the many well-preserved Georgian, Federal, and Victorian-era buildings dating from the early 17th to the early 19th centuries. Here you can explore history by wandering the 20-odd square blocks of streets lined with restaurants, cafes, and historic homes and gardens. Today 21st-century inhabitants actually live and work in the town’s stunningly preserved buildings - the real estate office, for example, was built in 1738, and the local tavern was originally built in 1674. New Castle, however, is perhaps the most purely American place - with four centuries of U.S. When I first wandered down Delaware Street in historic New Castle in early 2020, I thought that I was stepping into Brigadoon, that mythical village in the Scottish Highlands that comes alive every hundred years.
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