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Another Glagow Area Rev War site threatened (11/1/09)
FOHG Position Paper on La Grange Record Plan Submission 8/24/08
Land Use Fails To Support Historic Review Board (2/22/08)
La Grange Facts Sheet (1/18/2008)
Developer refiles SLAPP suits against FoHG members (2/20/2007)
La Grange developer's SLAPP suit dismissed (2/7/07)
Follow the players in New Castle County development (5/30/06)
POSSIBLE TEST OF ANTI-SLAPP LAW IN DE (5/28/06)
Please help support the Friends of Historic Glasgow, DE!
Going, Going, Gone? (3/26/04)
Obituary for Anne Barczewski (1/8/06)
Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in 19th C. America
Developer sues ex-owners of historic farm (1/15/06)
Historic Farm in Jeopardy (2/11/05)
Glasgow auction bids on history (7/13/03)
Open land isn't worth paying any price in competition (9/29/04)
La Grange Communities LLC development project plan # 20051045
SLAPP suit filed against LaGrange development opponents
West End Dairy founder, farmer dies at age 95 (1/7/06)
National Register: La Grange (1974)
Developer looks to add homes, shops, school to historic Glasgow
Petition to save Historic Glasgow
Press Release (9/13/05)
Delaware's history can be reduced to street names (8/30/05)
Preservationists must act fast to save historic farm (8/20/05)
School district is seeking to destroy historic farm (8/10/05)
1600 Artifacts Discovered At La Grange (7/25/05 Press Release)
LaGrange Press Release: Developer wants more time (5/8/05)
PLUS review – PLUS 2005-06-15; La Grange (Barczewski farm)
Capital of the Rebellion: Phila. and the Revolution. (8/26/1777)
Feinting Spell: Howe headquarters at Aikin's Tavern
Battle of Cooch's Bridge
Howes' headquarters are at Aitkens tavern; Cornwallis (9/9/1777)
Geo. Washington letter: Iron Hill, Coach's [Cooch's] Mill 1777
Geo. Washington's letter to Continental Congress (9/3/1777)
Aithim's Tavern [Aiken's Tavern], Crouch's Mills [Cooch's] 1777
Glasgow Regional Park welcomed (10/26/03)
Glasgow park gets under way (9/14/03)
Bidding for farm in NCCo hits snag (6/9/2003)
Glasgow park parcel could cost county $12 million (9/16/04)
Delaware's heritage is disappearing (12/3/03)
Citizens Work To Save Historic Landmarks (Glasgow) (3/8/04)
Friends of Historic Glasgow news (8/20/04)
Glasgow property is historic (10/5/04)
Historic farm sold to NCCo developer (2/4/05) - WRONG!
Christina Basin's importance is undeniable (7/18/04)
NCCo decides $12 million too much for 236-acre property 9/21/04
Where Green Trees, Not Greenbacks, Flourish (6/21/97)
La Grange Press Release: Battle to Save LaGrange (2/11/05)
National Register: Cooch's Bridge Historic District (1973)
National Register: Aiken's Tavern Historic District (1977)
HABS DE-216: La Grange Granary (aka.: Samuel H. Black Farm)
New Castle County Parcel View of La Grange (Barczewski farm)
Royal Farms developing Battle of Cooch's Bridge gateway (3/2/05)
Brooks House Historic Zoning Overlay (7/14/04)
Threatened by Cloverleaf - News Gazette article (5/30/73)
History of nepotism at historic Glasgow's expense (5/17/05)
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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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