Rockland Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Rockland Historic District is a national historic district located at Rockland, New Castle County, Delaware. It encompasses six contributing buildings in the hamlet of Rockland and associated with Rockland Mills.”
Wikipedia article Rockland Historic District (Rockland, Delaware), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1972 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Town of Rockland and its environs along Rockland Rd. and Brandywine Creek, Rockland, 19732
When was it listed? February 1972
Category. district
Census division. Brandywine
National Register reference number. 72000289 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Rockland Historic District: 2 plants, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Titanium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
American Minerals/ Wilmington, De.	Chromium	Past Producer
Fairville Mica Occurrence	Mica	Occurrence
Wilmington Plant Dupont	Titanium	Plant
Wilmington Plantozark-Mahoning	Fluorine-Fluorite	Plant

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this property

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockland, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2019	Flash Flood	Rockland	-	Rockland Road was closed due to high water between Mount Lebanon Road and Black Gates Road near Rockland.

Every storm recorded in New Castle County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
House at 901 Mt. Lebanon Rd.	0.2 miles	2017
Mount Lebanon Methodist Episcopal Church	0.3 miles	1984
William Young House	0.5 miles	1982
Strand Millas and Rock Spring	0.6 miles	1973
Louviers	0.8 miles	1971
Lower Louviers and Chicken Alley	0.9 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000289 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
New Castle County	All 411 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.