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Delaware National Historic Landmarks

Aspendale (Kenton) - 9/19/2014
A two-story brick house and small plantation that has survived intact since the late 18th century

Corbit-Sharp House (Odessa) - 9/19/2014
William Corbit, a prominent local tanner, built the Georgian house in 1774

Eleutherian Mills - 5/12/1996
The 1802 black powder mills of Eleuthere Irenee du Pont on Brandywine Creek

Fort Christina (Wilmington) - 7/31/2021
This was the location on the Christina River of the first Swedish settlement in North America and the principal settlement of the New Sweden colony

George Read II House (New Castle) - 7/31/2021
Built in 1793 for George Read, Jr., was the largest and most sophisticated residence in the state at the time, and is a significant early example of high-style Federal period architecture

Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church (Wilmington) - 7/31/2021
Consecrated on Trinity Sunday, 1699, by a congregation formerly of the New Sweden colony, it is among the few surviving buildings that reflect the Swedish colonial effort

Howard High School (Wilmington) - 9/20/2014
Before becoming a vo-tech school, it was an all-black school, and eventually one of five schools in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education case

John Dickinson House (Dover) - 9/19/2014
Generally known as Poplar Hall, it was the boyhood home and sometime residence of the American revolutionary leader John Dickinson

Lombardy Hall (Wilmington) - 9/20/2014
The home of Gunning Bedford, Jr., a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and a signer of the Constitution

New Castle Court House (New Castle) - 9/19/2014
New Castle Court House One of the oldest courthouses in the U.S., it is the center of a circle with a 12-mile radius that defines most of the border between the states of DE and PA and a small part of the border between DE and MD

New Castle Historic District (New Castle) - 9/19/2014
New Castle Historic District Originally settled by the Dutch West India Company in 1651, under the leadership of Peter Stuyvesant, it is a site significant for its architecture from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries

Stonum (New Castle) - 9/19/2014
The home of George Read, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, his advocacy having enabled Delaware to become the first state ratifying the declaration