Town · Chadds Ford Township, Delaware County
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 Township, Delaware County
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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Public Garden · East Marlborough Township, Chester County
Longwood Gardens
Pierre S. du Pont's garden masterpiece: a vast conservatory, dancing fountains, meadow and woodland walks, and a famous holiday light display.
State historic site · Chadds Ford Township, Delaware County
Brandywine Battlefield Park
Part of the ground of the 1777 Battle of Brandywine, one of the largest battles of the Revolution, with the farmhouses used as quarters by Washington and Lafayette.
Town · Kennett Square, Chester County
Kennett Square
A walkable small town that calls itself the Mushroom Capital of the World, with restaurants and galleries along State Street and Longwood Gardens just outside.
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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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Brandywine Battlefield Park
Part of the ground of the 1777 Battle of Brandywine, one of the largest battles of the Revolution, with the farmhouses used as quarters by Washington and Lafayette.
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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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West Chester
The Chester County seat, a handsome college town of brick and green serpentine stone, with a Greek Revival courthouse and a lively downtown of restaurants and shops.
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Chester County History Center
The county's history museum and research library, with tall-case clocks, early furniture, quilts and historic clothing, and exhibits on three centuries of local stories.
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Kennett Square
A walkable small town that calls itself the Mushroom Capital of the World, with restaurants and galleries along State Street and Longwood Gardens just outside.