History museum
Hagley Museum And Library
47 locals recommend
Location
200 Hagley Creek Rd
Wilmington, DE
Tips from locals
Hagley is an open air museum with something for everyone. It gives a lot of history of the DuPont company from it's infancy in the gun powder making business. There is the machine shop, the school house and foreman's house, the DuPont house, the family gardens, the steam house, etc. you can get guided tours of various parts with knowledgeable docents. The setting is beautiful along the Brandywine river.
Hagley is an open air museum with something for everyone. It gives a lot of history of the DuPont company from it's infancy in the gun powder making business. There is the machine shop, the school house and foreman's house, the DuPont house, the family gardens, the steam house, etc. you can get gu…
Hagley Museum and Library is where the du Pont story begins. Located along 235-acres along the banks of the Brandywine, Hagley is the site of the gunpowder ..
Site of the original Gunpowder works. View the start of an industrial movement and the use of water power to create gunpowder.