Town · Chadds Ford, Delaware County, PA
Chadds Ford
A Brandywine Valley village known for the Wyeth family of painters, the Brandywine Museum of Art and the 1777 Battle of Brandywine.
Chadds Ford is a small village on the Brandywine in the rolling country west of Wilmington, and few places are so closely tied to a family of artists. N.C. Wyeth settled here in 1908, his son Andrew was born here in 1917 and painted its farms and fields for the rest of his life, and the Brandywine Museum of Art, in an old grist mill on the river, holds the work of three generations of Wyeths. The museum also runs tours of the Wyeth studios and of the Kuerner Farm that Andrew painted for decades.
On September 11, 1777, the British army outflanked Washington here in the Battle of Brandywine, one of the largest battles of the Revolution; the battlefield park keeps the farmhouses used by Washington and Lafayette. Longwood Gardens and Winterthur are each only a few miles away, which makes Chadds Ford the natural center for a Brandywine Valley day.
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Museum · Chadds Ford, Delaware County, PA
Brandywine Museum of Art
Three generations of Wyeth family art in a converted 19th-century grist mill on the Brandywine River, surrounded by native-plant gardens.
Public Garden · Kennett Square, Chester County, PA
Longwood Gardens
Pierre S. du Pont's garden masterpiece: a vast conservatory, dancing fountains, meadow and woodland walks, and a famous holiday light display.
Public Garden · Winterthur, New Castle County, DE
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
Henry Francis du Pont's country estate, with a celebrated museum of American decorative arts and a naturalistic garden planned to bloom in waves from spring to fall.
Photo: Esther Westerveld from Haarlemmermeer, Nederland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Public Garden · Wilmington, New Castle County, DE
Nemours Estate
Alfred I. du Pont's mansion and its formal French-style gardens, among the largest in North America, with a long reflecting pool and fountains.
Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Brandywine Museum of Art
Three generations of Wyeth family art in a converted 19th-century grist mill on the Brandywine River, surrounded by native-plant gardens.
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Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
Henry Francis du Pont's country estate, with a celebrated museum of American decorative arts and a naturalistic garden planned to bloom in waves from spring to fall.
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Longwood Gardens
Pierre S. du Pont's garden masterpiece: a vast conservatory, dancing fountains, meadow and woodland walks, and a famous holiday light display.
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Nemours Estate
Alfred I. du Pont's mansion and its formal French-style gardens, among the largest in North America, with a long reflecting pool and fountains.
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Delaware Museum of Nature and Science
A natural history museum for families in Greenville, with dinosaurs, seashells and hands-on discovery rooms.