House & Garden 
T he old town of new 
CASTLE, DELAWARE. 
By H. L. Garneross. 
Passing up the Delaware River, one sees, 
a few miles after leaving the bay, peeping 
through the trees on the western bank, an 
old town in which the whipping-post does 
duty still. There are glimpses of gabled 
houses with balconies, 
while here and there a 
spire rises above the 
trees. Stone ice-break¬ 
ers stand like stalwart 
guards, before the town 
to protect the quiet har¬ 
bor from the huge blocks 
that fill the river in the 
spring. The patches of 
green trees interrupted 
by red, white, and yellow 
houses, form a restful 
picture in which even the 
infrequent sails that mark 
the harbor scarcely re¬ 
mind us of the world of 
business. The old town 
is New Castle, a unique 
place, with a character 
gained long ago and kept 
throughout a century 
with but little change. 
One may travel from 
Maine to Florida and not find another town 
whose past completeness has been preserved 
with the added charm of time, as it has been 
A VIEW OF THE TOWN HALE 
in New Castle’s beautiful squares and streets. 
Landing at a deserted wharf and passing 
up a quiet street one comes upon The Court- 
House. Its old gray walls are a delight to 
the eye. Farther on is a large square, in and 
around which centres such lite as there is in 
the town. If you inquire for the best hotel, 
you will be directed to an ancient inn with an 
archway at one side un¬ 
der which the teams pass 
to the sheds and stables. 
At the other end of the 
square from the court¬ 
house, and surrounded 
by a graveyard inclosed 
within a brick wall, is 
The Episcopal Church , 
founded in 1689 and 
proud ol a pulpit, com¬ 
munion plate and vest¬ 
ments, presented to it by 
Queen Anne. It is placed 
diagonally within the 
square enclosure ; where 
in the long grass one 
may read in weather¬ 
beaten letters well known 
names ot history, an 
epitaph by Franklin, and 
lines less skillfully pen¬ 
ned to the memory of 
the townspeople. In the 
corner of the churchyard stands a one-story 
buttressed Sunday School which shares the 
ancient appearance of its surroundings. Small 
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