Tours Around the Delaware Arc

Explore. Discover. Repose.

Explore.Tour the region around the Delaware Arc and experience a landscape of meaning unlike any other. A compact and accessible area, it extends from the Delaware River in the east to the Mason-Dixon Line in the west.

Discover. An enchanted swath of the Piedmont, some ten miles on either side of the Delaware Arc, passes through Chester and Delaware Counties in Southeastern Pennsylvania and New Castle County in Northern Delaware. Here, you will encounter a richness of Nature and History as portrayed in Around the Delaware Arc: 101 People, Places, and Lore by Edward Searl.

Repose. The several tours below utilize the vignettes of Around the Delaware Arc. The reader can easily explore this book's varied themes through intimate, entertaining, and informative one or two day trips.

Tours

I. Landscapes of Marian Cruger Coffin

II. Quaker Roots and Ways

III. Planned Communities

IV. Mason-Dixon Survey

V. Wyeth Country

VI. Wilmington Area Parks

VII Piedmont Geology

This Tour Guide

At the pages for the various tours, the red text navigates to external sites to provide you helpful information in preparation for your visits.

The tours are organized to most effectively take you from place to place.

Bracketed [text] refers to the appropriate vignettes in Around the Delaware Arc:101 People, Places, and Lore.

These tours encourage the visitor to engage in intimate encounters with a number of places that together converge in enchanted space: a humanist geography of Northern Delaware and Southeastern Pennsylvania. This is a deeper sort of tourism than is usually recommended. ["The Place Where I Started" pp.224-226]

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Tours Around the Delaware Arc

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