Friends of Historic Glasgow (Delaware)

Petition to save Historic Glasgow

Save Historic Glasgow from the backhoe & wrecking ball

HEAR YE! HEAR YE! ALL OF AMERICA

The Developers are coming! The Developers are coming!

Join in the effort to preserve the lands now at risk which encompass the Revolutionary War Battle of Cooch's Bridge in New Castle County, Delaware. The running skirmish between Aikentown (Glasgow) and Iron Hill was our first defensive action against the Red Coats' late summer 1777 advance from the Head of Elk to Philadelphia. The Patriots succeeded in stalling the British and Hessians troops and inflicting a great many casualties. A history park will boost tourism in nearby counties of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.

Three key properties in the Pencader Hundred, New Castle County, DE, are now threatened:

* Royal Farms plans to develop the corner of Rte. 72 and Old Baltimore Pike on the gateway of the historic battle grounds at Cooch's Bridge, even as the surrounding lands are safely under state control.

* Walgreens plans to demolish the colonial Middleton-Brook's house and barn to develop the corner of Rte. 40 and old Rte. 896, a property which anchors the Aiken's Tavern National Historic District.

* Developers are trying to purchase the neighboring farm (the Barczewski property), 240 acres containing two documented Native American Indian camps, earthen bunkers from the British occupation of Aikentown (Glasgow), remnants of the LaTrobe feeder canal from 1804, and several structures on the National Register of Historic Places (Dr. Samuel Henry Black). General Lafeyette named the farm "La Grange" while a visitor there in 1824.

Tell the developers that enough is enough!

Please click below to be taken to our petition website, where you may sign the petition. Our group will present this petition to public officials to let them know that the public does indeed care about preserving Glasgow's heritage for our children.

"We, the undersigned, petition our Federal, Delaware, and New Castle County leaders to do all that is within their powers to preserve the Glasgow National Historic area, the site of Delaware's only Revolutionary War battle, the running skirmish from Aikentown to Iron Hill, called the Battle of Cooch's Bridge. The properties now threatened are the Middleton-Brooks house, the Barczewski farm, and the Rte. 72 / Old Baltimore Pike frontage near Cooch's Bridge."

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