Eleutherian Mills, Centerville

Name: Eleutherian Mills
Address: Centerville, United States

#16 among attractions in Centerville

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From 1802 to 1921, Eleutherian Mills was a gunpowder mill site used for the manufacture of explosives founded by Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, which grew into the DuPont company. The name also refers to the house on the hill above the mills, which was the first du Pont family home in America. In 1957 the site became an outdoor museum when the Hagley Museum and Library was founded. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966. ()

Built: 1803 (221 years ago)Coordinates: 39°46'50"N, 75°34'30"W

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Centerville United States

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Eleutherian Mills – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Delaware Art Museum, Hagley Museum and Library, Rockford Park, Nemours Mansion and Gardens.

1.2 miSE
Museum, Art museum
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
30 min walk • The Delaware Art Museum is an art museum located on the Kentmere Parkway in Wilmington, Delaware, which holds a collection of more than 12,000 objects. The museum was founded in 1912 as the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts in honor of the artist Howard Pyle.
~0 ftN
Museum, History museum
Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington
1 min walk • The Hagley Museum and Library is a nonprofit educational institution in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, near Wilmington.
0.9 miS
Park
Rockford Park, Wilmington
24 min walk • Rockford Park is a historic public park located in a residential area of Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It is characterized by a large, grassy meadow which slopes gently upward to a large knoll overlooking the Brandywine River.
0.9 miE
Museum, History museum, Garden
Nemours Mansion and Gardens, Wilmington
25 min walk • The Nemours Estate is a 200-acre country estate with jardin à la française formal gardens and a French neoclassical mansion in Wilmington, Delaware. Built to resemble a French château, its 105 rooms on four floors occupy nearly 47,000 sq ft.
1.3 miN
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
Mount Lebanon Methodist Episcopal Church, Wilmington
34 min walk • Mount Lebanon Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as Mount Lebanon United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at 850 Mount Lebanon Road in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1834, and is a stuccoed stone structure in a Late Gothic Revival style.
0.9 miSW
Church
St. Joseph on the Brandywine, Centerville
24 min walk • St. Joseph on the Brandywine, originally Saint Joseph's Church until St. Joseph's Church- Wilmington was built in 1947, is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Greenville, New Castle County, Delaware, in the Diocese of Wilmington.
0.4 miS
Museum
Henry Clay Factory, Centerville
11 min walk • The Hagley Museum and Library is a nonprofit educational institution in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, near Wilmington.
0.7 miS
39°46'15"N • 75°34'39"W
DuPont Historic Corridor, Wilmington
18 min walk • Museum, History museum
0.6 miE
Museum
Nemours Mansion & Gardens, Centerville
15 min walk • The Nemours Estate is a 200-acre country estate with jardin à la française formal gardens and a French neoclassical mansion in Wilmington, Delaware. Built to resemble a French château, its 105 rooms on four floors occupy nearly 47,000 sq ft.
1.1 miNE
Georgian architecture
William Young House, Centerville
29 min walk • William Young House is a historic home located near Rockland, New Castle County, Delaware. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
1.1 miSE
Neighbourhood
Bancroft Mills, Wilmington
29 min walk • Bancroft Mills is an abandoned mill complex along Brandywine Creek in Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America. It has been the site of some of the earliest and most famous mills near Wilmington and was the largest and longest running complex along the Brandywine.

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Nearby attractions include Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington (1 min walk), Brandywine Manufacturers Sunday School, Wilmington (4 min walk), Louviers, Wilmington (10 min walk), Henry Clay Factory, Centerville (11 min walk).