New Castle And Frenchtown Turnpike And Railroad Company
When New Castle's prosperity was threatened by the building of a canal connecting the Delaware River to the Chesapeake Bay, merchants and other businessmen constructed a railroad New Castle Crier to cover the route from New Castle to the Chesapeake. Known as the New Castle-Frenchtown Railroad, it opened in 1828, which was also the same year as the canal. But, the small railroad wasn't enough to maintain New Castle's dominance. By 1840, a train line was established between Baltimore and Philadelphia, bypassing the much smaller and less significant New Castle.
The New Castle and Frenchtown Turnpike and Rail Road was the first railroad in Delaware and one of the first in the U.S., opening in 1831. About half of the route was abandoned in 1859; the rest became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad's route into the Delmarva Peninsula and is still used by Norfolk Southern. The abandoned segment from Porter, Delaware to Frenchtown, Maryland, the New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad Right-of-Way, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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