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Item Title
Wilmington & Northern Railroad, Repair Shop, Beech Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE
LocationBeech Street,
Wilmington, DE
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER DE-13
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-7).
Building/structure dates:
1883 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1976
Significance: The Wilmington and Northern Railroad built this small repair facility at a time when Wilmington's business community had visions of recapturing its old markets in the agricultural hinterland of Southwestern Pennsylvania. The shop and the activities which took place here were typical of the many small railroads in the country. In tracing the later history of this building, it is possible to see the history of America's East Coast railroads in microcosm.
Subjects
AgricultureRailroad TracksBrick Buildings
Related Names
Wilmington & Northern Railroad
Conrail
Wilmington & Reading Railway Company
Reading Railroad
Rineer, George W., Photographer
Lerch, G. Palmer, Photographer
Seely, Bruce E., Historian
Lankton, Larry D., Historian
Davis, Dennis L., Delineator
Packard, David A., Delineator
Lickerman, Nancy R., Delineator
Nelson, Allan L., Delineator
Derganc, Christopher S., Historian
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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