Mount Pleasant School

After the Delaware Legislature passed the Act for the establishment of free schools on February 12, 1829, local residents formed a committee to meet the educational needs of the area’s youth and in 1830 bought land from Joseph Orr to erect a schoolhouse for the benefit of subscribers in the district. The school remained in use until 1865, when Philadelphia merchant Hanson Robinson bought the building to add to his Woolton Hall estate in exchange for another lot and a new school building on the east side of Philadelphia Pike. The original building was later used as a Colonial Revival residence by William F. du Pont, Jr. as part of his broader transformation of the Bellevue estate, and it entered state ownership in 1976 with the original acquisition of Bellevue State Park.

Delaware · United States