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Title: Park interpreters at Hopewell Village
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Caption reads: 'One of the finest examples of a rural American 19th century iron making village. Included in the park are the blast furnace, casting house and other related structures.'
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_1032
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Glenmoore
Date(s): 1930
Contributor(s): Zebley, Frank R., 1883-1960 (photographer)
Description: Railroad tracks near the bridge coming into Glenmoore village. Village contained 50 or so houses in 1848 near the mill; residents were of Scotch-Irish descent.
Collection ID: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums (Accession 1968.012)
Hagley ID: 680127072
Collection: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums

Title: Fisherville
Date(s): 1934
Contributor(s): Zebley, Frank R., 1883-1960 (photographer)
Description: A row of stone houses called Fisherville was built for workers at the Fisherville Paper Mill.
Collection ID: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums (Accession 1968.012)
Hagley ID: 680127160
Collection: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums

Title: Lyndell Paper Mill
Date(s): 1933
Contributor(s): Zebley, Frank R., 1883-1960 (photographer)
Description: Remains of cotton mill, later cardboard mill, from the 1850s; mill burned in 1931.
Collection ID: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums (Accession 1968.012)
Hagley ID: 680127097
Collection: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums

Title: Lyndell
Date(s): 1930
Contributor(s): Zebley, Frank R., 1883-1960 (photographer)
Description: The general store of John J. Lewis is next to the covered bridge in the village of Lyndell.
Collection ID: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums (Accession 1968.012)
Hagley ID: 680127092
Collection: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums

Title: McFall's Mill
Date(s): 1934
Contributor(s): Zebley, Frank R., 1883-1960 (photographer)
Description: This mill used water power from race - it was said that George Washington spent a night there, and that the mill was unlocked in the winter so that Indians could sleep by the fire.
Collection ID: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums (Accession 1968.012)
Hagley ID: 680127085
Collection: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums

Title: Milford Mills
Date(s): 1934
Contributor(s): Zebley, Frank R., 1883-1960 (photographer)
Description: J & H McClure built a large stone cotton mill in 1857. The mill stopped operating at the start of the Civil War and never re-opened as a mill.
Collection ID: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums (Accession 1968.012)
Hagley ID: 680127121
Collection: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums

Title: View from Rockford Tower, looking toward Wilmington
Date(s): 1904/1905?, 1904, 1905
Contributor(s): Mathewson, F.L. (Les) (former owner)
Description: Looking down Red Oak Road, Rockford Village to left.
Collection ID: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs (Accession 2017.225)
Hagley ID: HF_H50_074
Collection: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs

Title: Henry Clay, Delaware, view from Rockford Tower
Date(s): 1905
Contributor(s): Devenney (associated name), Montgomery, Margaret Jane (Magee), 1911-1992 (associated name)
Description: Covered bridge in foreground is "New Bridge" at bottom of Rising Sun Lane. Henry Clay on left bank; Walker's Banks at right. Rokeby Mill (first DuPont Experimental Station), Breck's Mill, and Walker's Mill all visible.
Collection ID: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs (Accession 2017.225)
Hagley ID: HF_H50_027
Collection: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs

Title: Aerial view of Brandywine Creek near Chadds Ford, Pa.
Date(s): 1920
Contributor(s): Seal, Edward J., 1896-1955 (photographer)
Description: Loop area - Indian Village. Locust Knoll Farm on right.
Collection ID: Edward J.S. Seal photographic reproductions (Accession 1971.336)
Hagley ID: 71336_153
Collection: Edward J.S. Seal Photograph Collection

Title: Cedar Grove Mill village
Date(s): 1896
Contributor(s): William Whitaker & Sons, Inc. (associated name), Whitaker, Ann (Lord), 1814-1890 (associated name), Whitaker, Henry, 1763-1849 (associated name), Whitaker, William, 1813-1878 (associated name)
Collection ID: Whitaker family photographs (Accession 1982.253)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_253_007
Collection: Whitaker family photographs

Title: Boat house and swimming hole
Date(s): 1897
Contributor(s): William Whitaker & Sons, Inc. (associated name), Whitaker, William, 1813-1878 (associated name)
Collection ID: Whitaker family photographs (Accession 1982.253)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_253_008
Collection: Whitaker family photographs

Title: Henry Clay Village with view of Experimental Station (Rokeby Mill) in the distance
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Gentieu, Pierre A., 1842-1930 (photographer)
Description: Experimental station shown between railroad piers in the distance.
Collection ID: Pierre A. Gentieu Brandywine River Valley photographs (Accession 1970.001)
Hagley ID: 701145
Collection: Pierre A. Gentieu Brandywine River Valley photographs

Title: Squirrel Run Village map
Date(s): 1967-11
Creator: Beacom, Elizabeth
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (associated name)
Description: Squirrel Run Village, an area near the DuPont Powder Yards near Wilmington, Delaware as it was circa 1900.
Collection ID: Hagley File (Accession 1969.001)
Hagley ID: HF_M13_012
Collection: Maps and Plans of the Hagley Site and Buildings gallery

Title: Henry Clay, Delaware, and Walker's Banks seen from Rockford Tower during winter
Date(s): 1903/1906?, 1903, 1906
Contributor(s): Mathewson, F.L. (Les) (former owner)
Description: Covered bridge in foreground in "New Bridge" at bottom of Rising Sun Lane. Railroad tracks are those of the Wilmington and Northern Railroad. Creek Road (Main Street) of Henry Clay at left. Mill to left of dam is Breck's Mill. Mill to right of dam is Walker's Mill.
Collection ID: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs (Accession 2017.225)
Hagley ID: HF_H50_112
Collection: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs

Title: Henry Clay, Delaware, and Walker's Banks seen from Rockford Tower
Date(s): 1900/1906, 1900, 1906, 1900, 1906
Contributor(s): Mathewson, F.L. (Les) (former owner)
Description: Covered bridge in foreground in "New Bridge" at bottom of Rising Sun Lane. Creek Road (Main Street) of Henry Clay at left. Mill to left of dam is Breck's Mill. Mill to right of dam is Walker's Mill.
Collection ID: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs (Accession 2017.225)
Hagley ID: HF_H50_109
Collection: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs