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Services for Real Estate Pros - Independent architectural histor'n - Delaware RS-0010115
Looking for older and historic homes in the State of Delaware or in Southern Chester County, Pennsylvania? Carolyn Roland is a trained Architectural Historian and a Board Member of the Chester County Historic Preservation Network and Friends of the Furness Railroad District as well as the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Delaware and Chester County Historical Societies.,..

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2014 

Looking for July 4th information?  Here are some local events: The public is cordially invited to attend Northern Delaware’s annual 4th of July bell-ringing ceremony. At 2:00 Eastern Daylight Time, beginning with bells in Philadelphia, bells across New Castle and across the Nation will peal, offi...
06/30/2014
The story of this Historic Delaware Home for Sale is a little out of the ordinary. Little did Thomas Lewis, descendant of Welshman Henry Lewis, know when he built a brick dwelling house in 1772, that 200 years later a Kent County Delaware game warden would buy his house and haul it away, brick by...
06/23/2014
The time is here to find out what happened in Southern Chester County PA in May, 2014.  As you can see, new listings and closed sales compared to the previous May are up, but for the year, it's in the negative range. Pending sales are also lower than the same period in 2013.     The median sale p...
06/16/2014
The time is here to find out what happened in the real estate market in New Castle County, Delaware in May, 2014. As you can see,we have about 5% more listings than we did the same time last year, however, closed sales are down about 8%. More good news is that our sales prices are up almost 7% ov...
06/16/2014
Kent County, Delaware home sales are picking up, as the report from May, 2014 shows. However, the uptick in activity in May has not been enough to bring year to date figures on an upward curve. New listings in May were up 13%, and pending sales were up 6%. For the year, another good sign for sel...
06/11/2014
Please join the Delaware Historical Society on Saturday, June 14 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for a family day at Fort Delaware! Pack a lunch and take a ferry to Pea Patch Island. Enjoy special talks, tours, demonstrations, and performances planned to immerse you in a Civil War experience during 1864, ...
06/04/2014