New Castle (Delaware)

New Castle County

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New Castle is a city in New Castle County in the U.S. state of Delaware, United States, with 5,285 inhabitants ( 2010). The geographic coordinates are: 39.66 ° North, 75.57 ° West. The metropolitan area has a size of 8.2 km ², of which 3.79% water. The town lies at the mouth of the Delaware River, at the end of Delaware Bay.

History

Before the arrival of Europeans when this was the Indian village Tomakonck - Beavers square. New Castle was built between 1651 originally settled by the Dutch, the Fort Casimir founded here, which was only three years later, conquered on Trinity Sunday of the Year in 1654 by the Swedes, and accordingly in Trefaldigheet - was renamed - Trinity. The following year, 1655, the Governor of Nieuw Nederlands Peter Stuyvesant retook the Swedish possession and called the country Nieuw Amstel. Soon, the reconstructed Fort Casimir was therefore too small to be a central trading and settlement site and. Thus, the city of Nieuw Amstel was founded under the protection of the fort. 1664 the English conquered New Netherland and all they added to their colony of New York. The name of the town was henceforth New Castle. 1682 entered here William Penn ( 1644-1718 ) for the first time the American mainland and received the allegiance of its citizens. Until the establishment of Penn's Philadelphia ( award of city status 1701) New Castle should be the administrative headquarters of Pennsylvania. The residents of Delaware in 1702 reached self-government within the province of Pennsylvania, with headquarters in New Castle. The three counties of Delaware should secede until two months after the Declaration of Independence from Pennsylvania and declare themselves as an independent state. The first capital was New Castle, until it was moved in 1777 to Dover.

The first dike of the United States Broad Dyke, is also located in the city. It was built in 1655 by the Dutch.

New Castle was also the eastern terminus of the New Castle and Frenchtown Railway, which opened in 1832, the second oldest railway line in the country.

The tip of the courthouse, the colonial capitol and the first State House Delwares, was used as the center of the 12 -mile circle, which forms the northern border of Delaware to Pennsylvania and part of the Mason- Dixon line.

Filming location for movies

The Feature Films The Dead Poets Society, and Failure to Launch filmed in New Castle.

Sons and daughters of the town

Name Variants

The city has some name variants:

  • Aresapa
  • Cannekonkan
  • Delaware Town
  • Fort Casimir
  • Fort Casimires
  • Fort Kasimier
  • Fort Trefalldigheet
  • Fort Trinity
  • Macherish Kitton
  • Neucastle
  • New Amstel
  • New Castel
  • New Castl
  • New Castle Town
  • Newcastle
  • Newcastle Town
  • Nieuwer - Amstel
  • Niew Amstel
  • Santhoeck
  • Tamakonck
  • Tamecongh
  • Trefaldighet
  • Trefalldigheet
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