Friends of Cooch's Bridge Battlefield

09/06/2022

W3R De and Brandywine Village Partners share the Museum of the American Revolution with 54 students from the 8th of Wilmington . Event supported by NPS and W3R US and Councilwoman Zanthia Oliver .

11/09/2021

Please visit the website " Friends of Cooch's Bridge Historic Site" for info in their new and exciting tours of the Rev War era , Cooch Estate, led by noted Delaware Historian and Archeologist Wade Catts. .

A non-profit organization for the support and preservation of the only Revolutionary War battle site in Delaware.

11/05/2021

Wreaths Across America ceremonies returns again to Pencader Museum , on our States only battlefield, at 12:00 on Saturday ,Dec 18th. Pencader has been honored to host this National event for almost an entire decade. This year ,at the other end of the Delaware segment of the "Road to Yorktown" W3R National Trail , Colonial Brandywine Village will also host a Wreaths ceremony at 10:00 Sat morning . The Brandywine Village Partners, W3R Delaware and the Wilmington Senior Center will combine to host the event in the Centers large Conference Room ... Delawareans have the opportunity, up and down our state, to pay tribute to our States proud veterans...The WAA motto continues to be "Remember, Honor, and Teach"

A non-profit organization for the support and preservation of the only Revolutionary War battle site in Delaware.

10/25/2021

W3R Delaware is excited to share the story of the March of the combined French American armies across the Cooch Bridge enroure to Yorktown in 1781. Delaware is preparing for the 2026 celebration of our Nations independence!!

12/14/2019

The Wreaths Across America Foundation in Maine donated a 4 foot special wreath to honor the 24 Colonial soldiers who are buried in unmarked graves, somewhere on the battlefield surrounding Cooch's Bridge on Old Baltimore Pike by the British/Hessian armies..20 Gold Star families attended the ceremony. .

09/10/2019

Dr Selig speaks on DELAWARE and the W3R at the W3R/Pencader Museum Reenactment day at Coochs Bridge Battlefield on Sept 7 ..

03/17/2019

Members of W3R Delaware assist in clearing debris from an abandoned Cemetary in Red lion Delaware. Cemetary contains graves of three Rev War soldiers. Project led by W3R Delaware member George Widger ,whose 17 the century family members lie there. Members bill Conley and Mike Gallagher also participated along with Pencader Museum members. 83 graves in all discovered..

12/08/2018

The Cooch family will transfers their Colonial era home to the State.....

The Cooch family has agreed to transfer their Colonial era home that Gen Cornwallis occupied on Sept 3, 1777 ,to the State, along with an additional ten acres of the battlefield that the family had retained.. The W3R Delaware is excited that down the road, the home could possibly become an "visitors site " highlighting Delaware's role in the American Revolution.. The Cooch family had begun Ground Penetrating Radar Surveys this past summer as they hope to locate the unmarked graves of the two dozen Colonial Soldiers who perished at the battle in the area of the Cooch bridge. The State will continue that research under the direction of Mr Wade Catts. Wade explained to the assembled guests, the overview of Delaware's only battlefield of Sept 3,1777. The house lies along the W3R National Historical trail!!! "

11/18/2018

Judge Cooch receiving prestigious DAR national award for Historical preservation of Rev War battlefield. Nomination written by Bill Conley of Pencader and W3R Delaware Board of Directors...

11/06/2018

Photos from W3R Delaware ceremony honoring Gen Lafayette visit to Christaina Del. Lafayette brought 1500 cavalry troops thru the village as he pursued Benedict Arnold .. Also at the ceremony was the American flag that flew over his Paris France grave until this July 4. W3R received fantastic support from the Delaware Archives, Coochs Bridge Chapter DAR, and Pencader Heritage Association Museum( where flag will be displayed). Flag was unfurled by Army Veterans from the "Military Order of the World Wars".. Speakers at ceremony included Bill Conley, Pres of W3R Delaware,. Kim Burdick. Pres of W3R National,. Katie Hall of Delaware Archives and Linda Duffy, curator of Pencader Museum..

11/03/2018

02/28/2017

League of Women Voters today had Bill Conley, President of W3R-Delaware, as their guest speaker. Bill, also a retired history teacher, gave a talk on Delaware's part in the Revolutionary War. His enlivened talk took everyone back to experience the strategies, hardships, and movements of the Washington and Rochambeau's armies.