From font of conflict to source of serenity

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The Chandler Mill Nature Preserve and Interpretive Nature Center will be located at the base of the historic Chandler Mill Bridge in Kennett Township.

For more than a decade, the Chandler Mill Bridge, a historic, one-lane, stone and steel structure that spans a gently gurgling waterway, was awash in conflict – a dramatic contrast to its bucolic surroundings. Deeming it unsafe, Chester County, which owned it, made plans to raze the 1910 span. But preservationists, who fought to add it to the National Register of Historic Places, argued that…

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Paintings from Scaife bequest on view at BRM

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Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902). Coast of California. Bequest of Richard M Scaife

A superb selection of paintings given by Richard M. Scaife will go on view at the Brandywine River Museum of Art this spring. These works add significant depth to the museum’s holdings of American landscape painting and introduce the Hudson River School and American impressionist traditions. Many of the 25 paintings in the exhibition are by renowned artists that are new to the collection, such…

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