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Community History and Archaeology Program 

1945 Aerial pictures from New Castle to Wilmington

These pictures provide an indication of land usage around New Castle around 75 years ago. Note that at the bottom left of the composite image, wartime censors blocked details of the airport.

They were originally from former University of Delaware professor John Mackenzie's Spatial Analysis Lab website (udel.edu/FREC/spatlab). He provided higher resolution images (3800 pixels), but these seem to have been lost. The current 1000 pixel images were saved at nc-chap.org.
To see a closeup, click on the image or the index below.

Wilmington - Maryland Ave Wilmington - Frawley Stadium Wilmington - Train station  
Wilmington - Banning Park Minquadale Southbridge - Marine Terminal  
Newport Minquadale Crane Hook  
Basin Rd. Chelsea Manor Moore's, Landers Lane, Swanwyck Memorial Bridge location  
Basin Rd. & Rte 13 Trustee farms Moore's Lane, Van Dyke, Jefferson Farms Memorial Bridge location  
Rte 273 & 13, Trustee farms New Castle- Baldton Buttonwood  
Grantham's Lane New Castle (center)  
Deemer's Beach New Castle (south)  
Below Deemers Beach