Meetings & Events

A Day in Old New Castle Taverns, Taprooms & Tippling Houses

05/21/2016 - 10:00 AM
Location: City of New Castle
Address:
New Castle, DE 19720

A Day in Old New Castle Taverns, Taprooms & Tippling Houses 

A 92-year tradition of home and garden tours in New Castle, Delaware
Presented by The Community of the City of New Castle

 
Buy advance tickets

Saturday, May 21, 2016, 10 am to 5 pm
For more information, call (302) 322-5774 or Email them 

SCHEDULE “A Day in Old New Castle” 2016 – Final 5/20/2016

• 9am-5:45pm               Shuttle buses from New Castle Baptist Church to Court House
  5:45 Last bus from New Castle to NC Baptist Church parking.
• 9am – 5pm                  Ticket and Information Booths open.
• 10am-5pm                  Museums, Houses, Gardens open.
• 10am-5pm                  Union Patriotic League Encampment – Kensey Johns, Jr. House, 313 Delaware Street
  Willis Phelps – Union Soldier- Blacksmith – On the Green
  Colonial Brewer- Rich Wagner –  On the Green
  Daughters of the American Revolution- Presbyterian Church Hall, 25 E. Second Street
  Read House Flower Sale – Read House, 42 The Strand
  Preservation 50 – New Castle Court House Museum
• 10am-4pm                  Churches open for tours:
  -New Castle United Methodist – 510 Delaware Street
  -Immanuel Episcopal – 50 Market Street
  -New Castle Presbyterian – 25 E. Second Street
  -Salem Church – 140 E. Fourth Street
• 10am-5pm                  Bob Rogers, Woodcraft Vendor – Presbyterian Church Hall, 25 E. Second Street
• 10am-11am                Immanuel Church Change Bell Ringers
• 10:30am-11:30am      Serenata Strings – Presbyterian Meeting House, 25 E. Second Street
• 11am – 11:30am         “How are You Going to Wet Your Whistle?” A Temperance and Prohibition Sing-a-Long
  New Castle United Methodist Church- 5^th and Delaware Streets
• 11am-2pm                  Lite Lunch – New Castle United Methodist Church – 5^th and Delaware Streets
• 11:30-12pm                Brewing in New Castle: Dutch and Swedes – John Medkeff speaker – The Arsenal, 30 Market St.
• 12:00 – 4:00pm       Brew Pub – David Finney Inn, 222 Delaware Street
• 1pm-2:00pm               Tour Historic Buttonwood School –  Bus Stop in front of Court House
• 1pm-1:30                     “How are You Going to Wet Your Whistle?” – Temperance and Prohibition Sing-a-Long at New Castle Methodist Church – 510 Delaware Street
• 1pm-1:45pm               Suzuki Violins – New Castle Court House Museum

  1pm- 2pm                   Serenata Strings – Presbyterian Meeting House, 25 E. Second Street

• 1:30-2pm                    Progression of Brewing from Colonial to Modern Times in America- John Leyh-
  The Arsenal, 30 Market Street
• 4pm-5pm                    Evensong- Immanuel Church