DELAWARE
Field Trips

Lums Pond State Park was the site of several Native American hunting camps when St. Georges Creek flowed through the hardwood forest. The creek was dammed in the early 1800’s when the C & D canal was built.

At the Marshall Steam Museum learn about the beginnings of the automotive age with a collection of historic automobiles and trains to compare modern life with the early 1900s and witness the transformation of technology.

The Jane and Littleton Mitchell Center for African American Heritage honors two persons who dedicated their professional lives to ensuring equal rights and opportunities for African Americans and other disenfranchised Delawareans.

At the Mount Cuba Astronomical Observatory at the all-digital planetarium explore stars, planets, and constellations. Special tours and presentations are hosted by technical and educational associates and are available upon request for groups.

Mr. Pepper’s Pumpkin Patch has over a dozen varieties of pumpkins in various colors, sizes, shapes, and textures. You pick your own off the vine from right where it grew!

Mt. Cuba Center on 550 acres in Delaware’s Appalachian Piedmont with natural rolling hills, stream valleys, rock outcrops, deciduous forests, and the notable flora and fauna of the region. Guided group tours cover seasonal highlights and ecological gardening.

The Nanticoke Indian Museum displays many artifacts that have been passed down from Elders and includes thousands of arrowheads, pottery, axe hammers and other objects.

Nemours Estate, an 18th-century-French-style chateau, contains 77 rooms on 222 acres of land, with European and American furniture, rare mugs and artwork, books, as well as several reproductions of older paintings.

Visitors to the first courthouse and capitol of Delaware will learn how New Castle, Kent, and Sussex declared their independence from Pennsylvania and Great Britain, thus creating the Delaware State.

Tour Historic New Castle including the Amstel House, Dutch House, and the Old Library Museum to gain insight into the traditions of early American settlers.

Visitors immerse themselves in the rich cultural and political history of Delaware’s Old State House. Tour the courtroom and the former state legislature.

Step back in time at the Old Swedes Historic Site and get a glimpse at how the earliest European immigrants would have lived in America.