Claymont

Claymont, Delaware located just south of the Pennsylvania border and on the banks of the Delaware River has a population of just over 9,000 residents.  The area, like most of Delaware, began as an agrarian village that evolved into a suburban community.  For a brief time in its history Claymont served as a resort retreat for wealthy Philadelphia families.

Philadelphia Pike serves as Claymont’s main thoroughfare and community center with shops and storefronts lining its shoulders.  Claymont derived its name in 1856, taken from Claymont Court, the West Virginia plantation home of the wife of influential Episcopal minister Reverend Clemson.

Claymont is an unincorporated area with the 19703 zip code encompassing a total area of 2.1 miles. Claymont boasts the Darley House, the home of noted American illustrator Felix Octavius Carr Darley.  Darley was famous for his work illustrating the works of Cooper, Dickens, Hawthorne, Irving, Longfellow, and others.  At the time of his death in 1888 he was regarded as the Father of American Illustration.  Claymont is also home to the Robinson House, famous for its role in the development of colonial America and the new nation.  It was at the Robinson House that Gen. George Washington plotted strategy with Gen. Anthony Wayne, Marquis de Lafayette and Gen. “Light horse” Harry Lee.

In recent years Claymont has benefited from funding provided by a Sustainable Communities Award from the National Association of Counties.  The funds are managed by the Claymont Renaissance Development Corporation, a nonprofit organization working to stimulate economic growth and residential improvement in Claymont.  To that end Claymont has embarked on the largest development project in Brandywine Hundred in the last quarter century – the new Renaissance Village on 66 acres that was formerly the Brookview community.

Visit www.claymontrenaissance.org

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19703