This page provides ink to a wealth of information about the town of Christiana DE. The page will be expanded as more inforation is collected and digitized.
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THE CHRISTIANA ON-LINE LIBRARY (work in progress)
PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS
---LAND RECORDS
Patents Issued along the Christiana River, 1667-1679
New Castle County Deeds 1728-1738
Additional Deeds Collected, 1739-date
Wills and Probate Records Collected Relating to Christiana
Orphans Court Records, 1770-1830
---NEWSPAPERS
Newspaper Records, 1730+
Christiana Calling, a column from the Newark Post, 1954+
---GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
Records from the Library of Congress, 1775+
Source Materials in the 1777 Battle of Coochs Bridge
---CENSUS, TAX AND DIRECTORIES
Homeowners in the 1800 and 1810 Federal Censu
New Castle County Tax Assessment of 1816
Free Blacks in the 1820 Census
City Directories of 1872 and 1882
The Residents of Christiana in 1974 and 1980
---CEMETERY RECORDS
Headstone Inscriptions in the Mount Pleasant Church Cemetery
Headstone Inscriptions in the Christiana AME Church Cemetery on Schoolbell Road
SECONDARY MATERIALS
Documents relating to the study of Christiana
Christiana National Register of Historic Places District nomination form
White Clay Creek Hundred National Register of Historic Places District nomination form
John Lewden House National Register of Historic Places nomination form Relating to Christiana
Public School 111-C National Register of Historic Places nomination form
Notes from Scharf's History of Delaware
Memories of the Old Black School
Ed Cooch's 1976 History of the Town
Ann R. Brown's Wonderful History!!!
EXTERIOR WEBSITES
Reports Regarding the Route 1 Archeological Projects near Christiana
PHOTO ARCHIVES
Baldwin's Market
A House Here
Postmarked at the old Christiana Post Office
ca 1910 Presbyterian Church postcard
Main Street, ca. 1910 postcard
Main Street, ca. 1910 postcard
MAP ARCHIVES
1683 Plat Map of Ogle's Eagles Point Tract
1715 Map of Delaware
1737 Plat of Dr. Reese Jones Land, the earliest map of the Village
1752 Map of Delaware
1756 Plat of the Village,showing the bundaries in relaion to the King's Highway
1794 Map
1802 Road Map
1824 Map
1852 Plat of the Patterson Lane Properties
1868 Pomeroy and Beers Map of Christiana
1881 Hopkis Map of Christiana
1898 Baist Map
1906 USGS Map
1920 USGS Map
1953 USGS Map, Newark East, photorevised in 1985
1998 Tax Parcel Map