Hagley Museum, visitor's center

Located on 235 acres along the banks of the Brandywine River in Wilmington, Delaware, Hagley is the site of the gunpowder works founded by E. I. du Pont in 1802. This example of early American industry includes restored mills, a workers' community, and the ancestral home and gardens of the du Pont family.

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Hagley Museum, mansion

The first du Pont Family home in America, Eleutherian Mills, was built by E. I. du Pont in 1803. Situated on the crest of a hill, it affords a commanding view of the Brandywine River, with a dam which fed water to the original millrace. This charming Georgian-style residence is furnished with antiques and memorabilia of the five generations of du Ponts associated with the home. Adjoining it is the restored French-style garden created by E. I. du Pont, an avid botanist.

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Hagley Museum, mansion

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Hagley Museum, fountain near mansion

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Hagley Museum, huge tree, Osage Orange, Maclura pomifera

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Hagley Museum, same tree

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Hagley Museum, same tree

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Hagley Museum, same tree

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Hagley Museum, same tree

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Hagley Museum, lilac bush near mansion

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Hagley Museum, tree in garden near mansion

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Hagley Museum, garden near mansion

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Hagley Museum, garden near mansion, carefully formed trees.

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Hagley Museum, garden near mansion

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Hagley Museum, out building

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Hagley Museum, garden near mansion, strangly formed tree

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Hagley Museum, garden near mansion, strangly formed tree

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Hagley Museum, Brandywine River

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Hagley Museum, Brandywine River in background, Foundations of some of the gunpowder manufacturing mills

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Hagley Museum, Brandywine River in background, Foundations of some of the gunpowder manufacturing mills

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Hagley Museum, car barn, next to mansion.

Powder delivery wagon, 1890s

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Hagley Museum, car barn

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Hagley Museum, memorial

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Hagley Museum, start of the many canals used to direct the fast moving water from the Brandywine River to the many water wheels.

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Hagley Museum, private bridge

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Hagley Museum, private bridge

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Hagley Museum, two of the gunpowder mills, with the Brandywine River in the background and the higher canal in the foreground

Take the tour through the nineteenth-century industrial community at Hagley that once surrounded the manufacture of DuPont's original product, gunpowder. It details the du Pont family's decision to come to America, the choice of a site for the black powder manufactory, the early years of the company, and a concentrated exploration of the role of explosives in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century life.

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Hagley Museum, one of the canals

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Hagley Museum, one of the canals

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Hagley Museum, narrow gage car used to haul gunpowder, on other side of canal.

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Hagley Museum, one of the canals

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Hagley Museum, one of the gunpowder mills

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Hagley Museum, several of the gunpowder mills

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Hagley Museum, Canadian goose

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Hagley Museum, part of the mill complex

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Hagley Museum, canal

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Hagley Museum, Brandywine River

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Hagley Museum, machinery used to transfer power

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