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Best Southern Travel Destinations: Winterthur Museum and Country Estate
Photo Courtesy of Winterthur Museum and Country Estate

Best Historic Site in Delaware

This remarkable sanctuary reflects the vision of its creator, Henry Francis du Pont, who began work on it in 1902 at the age of 22. He’d grown up there, the son of an influential businessman, but business was not where his heart lay. He assumed management of Winterthur’s grounds, overseeing planting and design. Unlike other estate gardens of the period, his plantings fit the lay of the land and not the other way around. He wrote, “A good landscape architect’s work should fit in so well with the natural landscape that one should hardly be conscious that it has been accomplished.”

Winterthur’s 60 acres of gardens make a gorgeous visit any time, but spring is special. Thousands of bulbs and wildflowers carpet the ground on the March Bank and spectacular drifts of azaleas bloom beneath towering trees in the Azalea Woods. winterthur.org

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