Fifth Annual Battlefield Memorial Ceremony - Delaware Battle of Cooch's Bridge Set For 7PM Tonight In Glasgow

Fifth Annual Battlefield Memorial Ceremony

When: Wednesday, Sept. 7th -7pm to 8pm

Where: Pencader Heritage Museum, 2029 Sunset Lake Road, Newark Admission: Free

Contact: (302) 737-5792 or pencaderheritage.org

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DFMNews Delaware's only Revolutionary War battle helped to save the revolution #NetDE Pam George writes ~ Cooch’s Bridge: Delaware’s lone Revolutionary War battle

The ceremony features Delaware re-enactor units. French army re-enactors were also invited to represent the American allies’ encampment in this area in 1781, when they were en route to and from victory celebrations at Yorktown.

Raising awareness about Delaware’s Revolutionary War battle and the area’s role in history is a primary goal of the Pencader Area Heritage Association, which was founded in 2001 to collect, document and preserve the physical and oral culture of Pencader Hundred.

...The three-room Pencader Heritage Museum, located in a circa 1865 dairy barn on the Cooch-Dayett Mills property, features such relics as a Hessian short sword, found on the Cooch’s Bridge battlefield, and British cannonballs dropped during their encampment. There are also documents and relics from the Chrysler plant’s days as a tank-manufacturing site. (The Delaware Nature Society offers programs in the mill, built by William Cooch Jr. in 1838.) .

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