New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad Right-of-Way

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New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad Right-of-Way
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Culvert across Perch Creek
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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
Area0 acres (0 ha)
Built1831 (1831)
Architect John Randel, Jr.
NRHP reference No. 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]

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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Railroad route map

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 January 1, 2016.
  3. ↑ admin (August 2, 2019). "Frenchtown, a Lost Village on the Elk River". Window on Cecil County's Past. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
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