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Odd
& Funny Roadside Delaware
Zwaanendael
Museum - The building built for this museum is a "recreation"
of the City Hall in Hoorn, Holland - with all it's 17th century Dutch
'trimmings': decorated shutters, terra cotta roof tiles, stepped facade
gables, and stonework that is carved.
World
Championship Punkin Chunkin - The Chunk is held in Millsboro, Delaware,
at the intersection of routes 305 and 306 - this event started in the
1980's and now is an annual pumpkin-throwing contest held the first weekend
after Halloween. Teams construct and fire a variety of pumpkin devices
to shoot out the veggie: pneumatic air cannons, catapults, centrifugal
machines, and other devices are used..
The
Delaware Liberty Bell is located on the lawn in front of Legislative
Hall, it is a replica of the original.
Magic Age of Steam - Route 82 Yorklyn, DE
Hagley
Museum & Library - Wilmington, Delaware -
Historical
Society of Delaware - Wilmington, Delaware
Longwood Gardens - Wilmington,
Delaware -
Delaware Toy & Miniature Museum
- Route 141, Wilmington,
Delaware - collection of over 100 dollhouses and rooms, antiques as well
as the newly crafted miniatures made by talented artisans serves as a
visual documented piece of history.
Grand Opera House - 818
North Market St., Wilmington, Delaware - since 1871
Wilmington and Western Railroad - Wilmington,
Delaware - Since 1867, the Wilmington & Western has served the communities
along the Red Clay Creek, first as a for-profit transportation route for
freight and passengers, and now as a non-profit, historic tourist railroad.
John
Dickinson Plantation - Kitts
Hummock Road, Dover, Delaware - c.1896
Rockwood Museum - 610
Shipley Rd, Wilmington, Delaware - Delaware's only example of Rural Gothic
architecture
Johnson Victrola Museum - Bank
and New St, Dover, Delaware - an extensive collection of talking machines,
photos, and memorabilia of recording artists
Hagley Museum and Library - 298
Buck Rd., Wilmington, Delaware - interprets the unfolding history of duPont's
American enterprise
Nemours
Mansion and Gardens - 1600 Rockland Road, Wilmington, Delaware - former
300 acre estate of Alfred I. du Pont, the Mansion is a modified Louis
XVI French château.c1910
Old Dutch House - East Third
Street, New Castle, Delaware - c. 1751
Amstel
House - 2 East 4th Street, New Castle, Delaware -
Winterthur
Museum and Country Estate - 5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, Delaware
- Once a Du Pont family retreat, now visitors see antiques and a 60-acre
garden of woodlands and waterways
Delaware
Agricultural Museum and Village - 866 N. du Pont Hwy, Dover, Delaware
- a village with 15 buildings
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