Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
May 1, 1818
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 93
Additional Source Text:
Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 13 May 1818 adds: "Lately blown up."
Notes:
From 1802 to 1921, Eleutherian Mills, on Brandywine Creek just north of Wilmington, Del., was a gunpowder mill site used for the manufacture of explosives by the du Pont family business, which was founded by Eleuthère Irénée du Pont. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966.
James Riddle (1755-1837) was a Pennsylvania lawyer who served as a state judge 1791-1804 and as a trustee of Dickinson College for thirty-five years. Richard A. Harrison, Princetonians, 1776-1783: A Biographical Dictionary (Princeton, 1981), pp. 276-277
