dover delaware: Seaside Model Railroaders Present Dover Display - 01/06/11 02:19 AM
    
A visit to the Delaware Public Archives, which is the new home of the Visitor's Center, introduced an exhibit of model trains by the Delaware SeaSide Railroad Club. The Club website is http://delawareseasiderailroadclub.com/  It ties in with a new collection in the archives from the Jackson and Sharp company, which built railroad cars and ships in Wilmington from 1863 to 1950.  There are more than 4000 images and documents in the collection.
                                        
Although the Jackson and Sharp collection is available during regular Archive Library hours, the model trains are only on exhibit January 5 through 8. The … (0 comments)

dover delaware: Have You Read a Good Building Lately? - 04/25/10 12:20 PM
I recently attended a workshop at the John Dickinson Mansion near Dover Delaware which led us through steps to help determine the age of various methods of historic construction and how to detect features that may be hiding in plain sight. One example of this was in the attic of the 18th C. part of the house. We looked at the chimney to see if we could find evidence of an earlier configuration. This is what we found.

 If you look carefully one brick course down and diagonally to the left of the hand, you begin to see a diagonal … (6 comments)

 
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Carolyn Roland- In Delaware and S. Chester County PA

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