Daily News | Longwood Gardens is acquiring a 500-acre estate from the du Pont family
Longwood Gardens, the nearly 1,100-acre botanical garden in southern Chester County has agreed to acquire the Granogue estate, 505 acres of rolling woods and farmland and a hilltop stone mansion, along the Brandywine in nearby northern Delaware.
“There are no real plans yet, other than to preserve the 505 acres, and to make it available for the public to enjoy,” said Ben du Pont, a nephew of Irènèe. Terms of the acquisition and a timetable for opening to visitors have not been disclosed. The neighborhood and nearby locales along the curved Delaware-Pennsylvania state line is known locally as the “chateaux country” due to the prominence of several former estates built with profits from the family-founded DuPont Co. munitions and chemical empire. The Hagley industrial museum, Bellevue State Park, Nemours Children’s Hospital and the Nemours Estate , Mt.
The federal government forced the family to dissolve its holding company in the early 1960s, though members remained represented on its board for some time after. DuPont Co. has since added andThe younger Irènèe was an MIT-trained engineer who worked as a DuPont Co. executive, took a leading role in
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