Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1908/00/00 Seeing the need for a main highway in Delaware, DuPont envisions a 200-foot right-of-way that has a 40-foot automobile highway flanked by trolley tracks, roads for heavy vehicle traffic, unpaved roads for horses and sidewalks above buried utility lines. Engineer, Builder
1911/09/18 Financed by T Coleman Du Pont, construction of the Du Pont Highway, one the nation's first modern roadways, begins near Selbyville, Delaware. Engineer, Builder Sussex County, DE
1911/10/16 Coleman DuPont Road, Inc is incorporated in the state of Delaware, to acquire land and construct a highway the length of the state. After portions of the DuPont Highway are built, they are to be turned over to the state at no charge. Established
1917/05/00 The DuPont Highway is completed to Georgetown. The Coleman du Pont DuPont Road Headquarters was located in the former Country Club, an Victorian house (lost) on South Bedford Street in Georgetown, Delaware. Engineer, Builder Georgetown, DE Delaware
1917/05/24 The first two sections of the DuPont Highway, from Selbyville to Georgetown and from Georgetown to the Appenzellar farm 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Milford, are completed. Engineer, Builder Milford, DE Delaware
1918/07/20 Du Pont agrees with the state of Delaware for the newly formed DSHD to construct the rest of the highway. T Coleman du Pont will finance the remaining sections up to $44,000 per mile and the State will complete the road to Milford. Engineer
1923/00/00 T Coleman du Pont continues to fund the Delaware highway project until it is completed near Odessa at a cost of $3,917,000. The roadway will eventually be incorporated into the federal highway system as Routes 13 and 113. Engineer Odessa, DE Delaware
1960/02/08 Frank duPont, trustee of the estate of Coleman duPont and owner of Coleman DuPont Road Inc, transfers the company to the State of Delaware. It is then dissolved, property is conveyed to the Highway Dept and monies are paid to the General Fund. Dissolved
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