Montchanin, Delaware

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Montchanin
Unincorporated community
Montchanin Station
Montchanin Location within the state of Delaware
Coordinates: 39°47′23″N 75°35′21″W / 39.78972°N 75.58917°W / 39.78972; -75.58917Coordinates: 39°47′23″N 75°35′21″W / 39.78972°N 75.58917°W / 39.78972; -75.58917
Country	United States
State	Delaware
County	New Castle
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
GNIS feature ID	214333^[1]

Montchanin is an unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.^[1] The community was named for Anne Alexandrine de Montchanin, mother of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours.^[2] The Jacob Broom House, a National Historic Landmark, is located there. The Jacob Broom House, Montchanin Historic District, and Strand Millas and Rock Spring are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[3]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "Montchanin, Delaware". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey.
↑ Colby, Gerard (1974). Du Pont: behind the nylon curtain. Prentice-Hall. p. 5. ISBN 0-13-221077-0.
↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.

v t e Municipalities and communities of New Castle County, Delaware, United States

County seat: Wilmington

Cities	Delaware City New Castle Newark Wilmington

Towns	Bellefonte Clayton‡ Elsmere Middletown Newport Odessa Smyrna‡ Townsend

Villages	Arden Ardencroft Ardentown

CDPs	Bear Brookside Claymont Edgemoor Glasgow Greenville Hockessin North Star Pike Creek Pike Creek Valley Wilmington Manor

Unincorporated communities	Ashland Augustine Beach Belvidere Biddles Corner Blackbird Boyds Corner Christiana Collins Beach Collins Park Faulkland Farnhurst Flemings Landing Granogue Greenbank Hares Corner Henry Clay Holloway Terrace Kirkwood Landenberg Junction Marshallton Mathews Corners Milford Crossroads Mill Creek Minquadale Mockingbird Hills Montchanin Mount Cuba Mount Pleasant Ogletown Pleasantville Port Penn Prices Corner Red Lion Rockland St. Georges Silverbrook Southwood Stanton State Road Summit Bridge Talleyville Taylors Bridge Tybouts Corner Williamsburg Winterthur Wooddale Wrangle Hill Yorklyn

Hundreds	Appoquinimink Blackbird Brandywine Christiana Mill Creek New Castle Pencader Red Lion St. George's White Clay Wilmington

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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