Tag: Restoring

Hagley is one of the lesser-known estates developed by members of the du Pont industrial dynasty in and around Wilmington, but, in one respect, it is the most important.

It was here, in 1802, that company founder and French émigré E.I. du Pont settled, building a gracious beige stuccoed country house on the banks of the Brandywine Creek as part of Eleutherian Mills, the gunpowder works that grew into the corporate giant DuPont.

Hagley’s main ornamental garden, recently replanted and revived, is based on the type of formal fruit and vegetable garden that the company patriarch would have known