Mechanicsville
Mechanicsville is an unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. The community is located in "The Wedge", a geometric oddity arising out of ambiguity in the 18th-century border dispute settlement between the Penns and Calverts in the British North American colonies.- Type: Hamlet
- Description: human settlement in Delaware, United States of America
- Also known as: “Mechanicsville, Delaware”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wesley M.E. Church and Delaware–Maryland–Pennsylvania Tri-State Point.
Wesley M.E. Church
Historic building
Photo: Choess, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at McClellandville, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1854, and is a frame, one story, one bay by three bay, gable-roofed Greek Revival-style building.
Delaware–Maryland–Pennsylvania Tri-State Point
Geographical marker
Photo: Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Delaware–Maryland–Pennsylvania Tri-State Point is the meeting of the northwestern corner of Delaware, the northeastern corner of Maryland, and the southern edge of Pennsylvania.
Chambers House
Heritage site
Photo: Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Chambers House, also known as "Stairways," is a historic home located at 1475 Creek Road in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. It was built by Joseph Chambers between 1816 and 1852, and is a two- to three-story, Penn Plan bank house built of uncoursed fieldstone.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include McClellandville and Strickersville.
McClellandville
Hamlet
Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
McClellandville is an unincorporated community in New Castle County, in the U.S. state of Delaware. McClellandville is located at the intersection of Delaware Route 896 and Wedgewood Road, northwest of Newark.
Strickersville
Hamlet
Strickersville is an unincorporated community in extreme southeastern Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 896 and Strickersville Road in London Britain Township.
Appleton
Hamlet
Appleton is an unincorporated community in Cecil County, Maryland, United States. Appleton is located at the intersection of Maryland Route 273 and Appleton Road, north of Elkton and east of Fair Hill. Appleton is situated 2 miles southwest of Mechanicsville.
Mechanicsville
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: New Castle County, Delaware, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.71706° or 39° 43′ 1″ northLongitude
-75.78355° or 75° 47′ 1″ westElevation
292 feet (89 metres)Open location code
87F6P688+RHOpenStreetMap ID
node 158269079OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Japanese—“Mechanicsville” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “梅卡尼克斯維爾”
- Dutch: “Mechanicsville”
- Irish: “Mechanicsville”
- Japanese: “メカニクスヴィル (デラウェア州)”
- Japanese: “メカニクスヴィル”
- Japanese: “メカニックスヴィル (デラウェア州)”
- Japanese: “メカニックスヴィル”
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