Tuesday Daily Delawhere [3.31.15]

The old New Castle County Courthouse, on Delaware Street in New Castle. The courthouse was built in 1730 on the site of the 1689 courthouse that was burned in a 1729 jailbreak. Now that’s badass. You break out of prison and then burn it to the ground. Probably easier back then when the jails were made of wood.

Anyhow, the newly built Courthouse served as the home of the Delaware General Assembly from 1704 to 1776, and served as Delaware’s capitol from 1776 to 1777, when it moved to Dover. The courthouse remained the seat of New Castle County government until 1881, when the county seat was moved to Wilmington. The east wing, on the right, dates to 1802, and the west wing, on the left, dates to 1840. Photo by xzmattzx.