Centerville, Delaware

Centerville, Delaware Centreville
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 39°49′17″N 75°37′00″W / 39.82139°N 75.61667°W / 39.82139; -75.61667Coordinates: 39°49′17″N 75°37′00″W / 39.82139°N 75.61667°W / 39.82139; -75.61667
Country	United States
State	Delaware
County	New Castle
Elevation	436 ft (133 m)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
Area code(s)	302
GNIS feature ID	213782^[1]

Centerville (also known as Centreville) is an unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. Centerville is now known primarily for being the location of Du Pont family estates, as well as several other wealthy business families from nearby Wilmington, and the home of Governor Jack Markell.

The village developed along the Kennett and Wilmington Pike which was chartered by the Delaware Legislature in 1811. The road, now known as Delaware Route 52 or the Kennett Pike, is part of the Brandywine Valley Scenic Byway, a National Scenic Byway.^[2] A group of fifteen houses, most of the village, was listed as the Centreville Historic District by the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. About the same time, three other properties near the village, the Joseph Chandler House, the Carpenter-Lippincott House, and Mt. Airy School No. 27, were separately listed by the NRHP. The Centre Meeting and Schoolhouse had been listed in 1971.^[3]

The hamlet of Fairville, Pennsylvania, about three miles north on Kennett Pike (Pennsylvania Route 52) developed about the same time as Centerville, and is also listed on the National Register.

Geography

Centerville is located at 39°49′17″N 75°37′00″W / 39.82139°N 75.61667°W / 39.82139; -75.61667^[1] on the Pennsylvania state line, 5 mi/8 km NNW of Wilmington.

Elev. 436 ft/133 m.

Area Attractions

Entrance to the Joseph Chandler House on Chandler Lane in Centerville

Brandywine Creek State Park is located just to the SE of the village center. Delaware Museum of Natural History and the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate in Winterthur, Delaware are located just to the south of Centerville, on Delaware Route 52.

Education

Centerville is home to Layton Preparatory School. Centreville Layton School

References

1 2 "Centerville". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
↑ Brandywine Valley Scenic Byway
↑ National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.

External links

Centreville, Delaware homepage

U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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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	Anglesey Armstrong Ashland Auburn Hills Augustine Beach Avalon Basin Corner Beaver Valley‡ Bellevue Belvedere Biddles Corner Blackbird Blue Ball Boyds Corner Brackenville Brackenville Woods Brandywine Brookhill Farms Canby Park Estates Canterbury Hills Carpenter Centerville Christiana Church Hill Cleland Heights College Park Collins Beach Collins Park Corner Ketch Cornish Hills Delaware Heights Dunleith Elmhurst Fairfax Fairfield Fairfield Crest Farnhurst Faulkland Flemings Landing Fox Meadow Gateway Farms Granogue Greenbank Greenville Manor Guyencourt Hanbys Corner Hares Corner Haverford Heather Valley Henry Clay Hickory Hill Highland Meadows Highland West Holloway Terrace Holly Knoll Kirkwood Lancaster Court Landenberg Junction Landlith Loveville Marshallton Mathews Corners McClellandville McDonough Meadowbrook Mechanicsville Meeting House Hill Milford Crossroads Mill Creek Minquadale Mockingbird Hills Monroe Park Montchanin Mount Cuba Mount Pleasant Naaman Oakwood Hills Ogletown Penn Rose Pennyhill Pleasantville Port Penn Porter Prices Corner Quaker Hill Red Lion Rockland Runnymeade St. Georges Sedgley Farms Silverbrook Silverbrook Gardens Silview Smyrna Landing‡ Southwood Spring Valley Stanton State Road Summit Bridge Swallow Hill Talleys Corner Talleyville Taylors Bridge Trepagnier Tybouts Corner Walnut Ridge Ways Corner Wellington Hills West Farm West Haven West Park Westgate Farms Westminster Westover Hills White Briar Williamsburg Winterbury Winterthur Wooddale Wrangle Hill Yorklyn
Hundreds	Appoquinimink Blackbird Brandywine Christiana Mill Creek New Castle Pencader Red Lion St. George's White Clay Creek Wilmington
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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