You can’t toss a rock in his historic hamlet without hitting a battlefield or historic home.
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Get your day started with a Kennett Square Mushroom & Cheese Omelet at Hank’s Place, 1625 Creek Road in historic Chadds Ford, Pa.
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Some 30,000 American and British troops clashed in the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777—the largest land battle of the Revolutionary War. Visit the Brandywine Battlefield Historic Site at 1491 Baltimore Pike in historic Chadds Ford, Pa., and learn all about this British victory that resulted in the capture of Philadelphia.
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The Chadds Ford Historical Society gives tours at its three 18th century houses, including the c. 1725 John Chads House and Springhouse. The society is housed at the Barn Visitors Center at 1736 Creek Road.
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See 200 years of American history in one man’s amazing collection of more than 3,000 artifacts at the country home of the Christian C. Sanderson Museum at 1755 Creek Road in Chadds Ford.
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Tour the Brinton 1704 House, one of the oldest historic houses in America. It’s at 21 Oakland Road, West Chester, Pa., and is open Saturdays and Sundays from May 1 to October 31.
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The Hagley Museum is the site of the gunpowder factory founded by E. I. du Pont in 1802 and featured restored mills, a workers’ community and the ancestral home and garden of the du Pont family.
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The Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library at 5105 Kennett Pike in Winterthur, Del., the former du Pont estate, boasts an unrivalled collection of American furniture and decorative arts as well as hundreds of acres of gardens and a world-class research library.