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Eastburn Jeanes Lime Kilns Historic District

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Built
  
c. 1820 (1820)

Area
  
81 ha

NRHP Reference #
  
77000389

Added to NRHP
  
28 April 1977

Eastburn-Jeanes Lime Kilns Historic District httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Location
  
North of Newark on Limestone Rd., near Newark, Delaware

Eastburn jeanes lime kilns historic district top 5 facts


Eastburn-Jeanes Lime Kilns Historic District is a national historic district located near Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. It encompasses six contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and eight contributing structures. They are eight line kilns and two abandoned quarries, together with stone buildings erected by Abel Jeanes and Joseph Eastburn. The buildings include the Abel Jeans Manor House, Blacks Mill, horse stable, and outhouse. They reflect the local lime-burning industry that started in 1816, and operated into the early 1900s.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

References

Eastburn-Jeanes Lime Kilns Historic District Wikipedia