Woodlawn Trustees, Inc. Records
Date: 1880-2005
Collection Abstract: The Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated, is a non-profit real estate development firm incorporated in Delaware on December 12, 1918, by textile manufacturer William Poole Bancroft (1835-1928). It subsumed Bancroft's earlier, for-profit venture, The Woodlawn Company (1901-1926). The Trustees are responsible for maintaining affordable housing in the city of Wilmington and for the orderly development of large tracts of suburban land, mostly located in Brandywine Hundred between Concord Pike and the Brandywine Creek and running north from Rockland Road into Delaware County, Pa. The records of the Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated, provide an excellent case study of the inherent tension between planned development and the realities of the market for commercial and residential real estate. They also document the outward growth of the Greater Wilmington area over the course of the 20th century and the activities of its Quaker families.
Collection Size: 56 linear feet
Access: The collection is open for research. A finding aid (PDF) with a detailed description about the contents of this collection is available online..
Accession Number: 2424
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