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First State Passport Stamps

Along with the 400+ other units in the National Park Service, First State National Historical Park participates in the "Passport to Your National Parks" program.

Since First State National Historical Park consists of seven sites throughout the state, there are seven site-specific stamps to accompany the locations. The locations are listed below, with their addresses and websites. Please note that from site to site there are different hours of operations.

In addition, multiple sites have the commemorative Underground Railroad Network to Freedom stamp. Further information about the stories that connect these sites to the larger, national Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program is below.

Brandywine Creek State Park Nature Center
41 Adams Dam Road, Wilmington, DE 19803
(1) stamp - Beaver Valley (Woodlawn Tract)

Old Swedes Church

606 North Church Street, Wilmington, DE 19801
(2) stamps - Old Swedes Church and Fort Christina National Historic Landmark

New Castle Court House Museum

211 Delaware Street, New Castle, DE 19720

(3) stamps - New Castle Court House Museum, the National Park Service Centennial, and the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
The Arsenal
30 Market Street, New Castle, DE 19720
(1) stamp - The Green

The Old State House (First State Heritage Park)

25 The Green, Dover, DE 19901

(2) stamps - The Green and the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom

John Dickinson Plantation

340 Kitts Hummock Road, Dover, DE 19901

(2) stamps - John Dickinson Plantation and the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom

The Ryves Holt House

211 Mulberry Street, Lewes, DE 19958

(1) stamp - Ryves Holt House

 

• New Castle Court House: site of the trial of Thomas Garrett and John Hunn, who were convicted of working as stationmasters on the Underground Railroad in violation of the Fugitive Slave Act.
• Old State House: site of the trail of Samuel Burris, a conductor of the Underground Railroad and a free black man who risked his own freedom to lead enslaved people through Delaware into Pennsylvania.
• John Dickinson Plantation: one of the largest plantations in Delaware, once home to about sixty slaves. After inheriting the property from his father, John Dickinson granted his slaves full freedom in 1785 as a result of Quaker beliefs.