The Green or Market Plaine

New Castle County · dedicated 1932 · 30 Market Street, New Castle

Laid out by Petrus Stuyvesant, Dutch Governor, 1655. On this Green stood the old jail and gallows. Here were held the great fairs and weekly markets from early times.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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