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Welsh Tract

New Castle County · dedicated 1932 · West side of hwy .7 mi. South of Main Street on College Avenue (Depot Road)1030 South College Avenue, Newark · location approximate

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Northern boundary line of tract of thirty thousand acres granted to Welsh by William Penn, 1701. It included what is now Pencader Hundred, Delaware, and a part of Cecil County, Maryland.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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