New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad Right-of-Way

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New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad Right-of-Way
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Nearest city Frenchtown, Maryland and Porter, Delaware
Coordinates 39°35′37″N75°45′54″W / 39.59361°N 75.76500°W / 39.59361; -75.76500 Coordinates: 39°35′37″N75°45′54″W / 39.59361°N 75.76500°W / 39.59361; -75.76500
Area0 acres (0 ha)
Built1831 (1831)
Architect John Randel, Jr.
NRHP reference # 76002290 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 1, 1976

New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad Right-of-Way is a railroad right of way connecting Frenchtown, Cecil County, Maryland, and Porter, New Castle County, Delaware. The New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad originally crossed the Delmarva Peninsula from a wharf in New Castle to a wharf at Frenchtown on the Elk River in Maryland. This part of the right-of-way is abandoned for railroad purposes, although parts of it serve as county roads. [2]

Cecil County, Maryland County in Maryland

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Porter, Delaware Unincorporated community in Delaware, United States

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New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware. As of the 2010 census, the population was 538,479, making it the most populous county in Delaware, with just under 60% of the state's population of 897,936 in the same census. The county seat is Wilmington.

On the Cecil County side of this segment of the line, the track bed had been abandoned by 1858. The County Commissioners turned it into "a common neighborhood road," the Cecil Whig reported. [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. James M. Kilyington (April 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad Right-of-Way" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  3. admin (2019-08-02). "Frenchtown, a Lost Village on the Elk River". Window on Cecil County's Past. Retrieved 2019-10-12.