Hale-Byrnes House

Delaware is blessed with quite a bit of revolutionary history that is still largely intact and if you look in certain directions you can be transported back to the days of General Washington and Lafayette and the American Revolution. Sadly much of the riparian wilderness is deeply impacted by suburbanization and industrial development, directly behind the tree lined riverbank to the left are office buildings and industrial sites ranging from a lumbar yard to car repair. The house itself is hard to take a good photo of since it is maybe 10 feet from this section of the old capitol trail road and is about half a mile from an abandoned bridge and what looks like on google maps to be either some pretty built up squats or old houses without street access any longer, which is a shame this place could make the start of a very nice park. This region of Delaware, Stanton, seems to be one of the more interesting places, with lots of little out of the way corners, old houses, blue and brown roadside markers, perhaps the industrial center can be declared an uninsurable flood risk and we can build a green space with this historic house and the lovely stretch of river as the parks anchor. 

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