The Hagley Museum and Library is a nonprofit educational institution located in Wilmington, Delaware. It houses a collection of manuscripts, photographs, books, and pamphlets documenting the history of U.S. business and technology.
The facility is located on 235 acres (0.95 km²) along the banks of the Brandywine River, the site of the gunpowder mill founded by Eleuthère Irénée du Pont in 1802. Today, the facility offers a diversity of restorations, exhibits, and live demonstrations for visitors.
The museum and grounds include the first du Pont family home and garden in the United States, the powder yards, and a nineteenth-century machine shop.
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Hagley Museum and Library (http://www.hagley.org/)
The one-hour documentary, produced by the HagleyMuseum and Library, is about the ambiguous legacy of segregation, and ultimate desegregation in 1967, of Delaware’s public school system.
HagleyMuseum and Library and the Delaware Humanities Forum, a state agency of the National Endowment for the Humanities, also supported the making of the program.
The HagleyMuseum and Library is a nonprofit educational institution dedicated to the preservation and understanding of America’s economic and technological heritage.
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