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Delaware Route 52
Delaware Route 52
(
DE 52
) is a state highway in
New Castle County
,
Delaware
. The route runs from
U.S. Route 13 Business
(US 13 Bus.) in downtown
Wilmington
north to
Pennsylvania Route 52
(PA 52) at the
Pennsylvania
border near
Centerville
. DE 52 runs through the city of Wilmington and passes through areas of the Brandywine Valley north of Wilmington. DE 52 intersects
Interstate 95
(I-95)/
US 202
and
DE 2
in Wilmington and
DE 100
/
DE 141
and
DE 82
in
Greenville
. The entire route is designated as part of the
Brandywine Valley National Scenic Byway
, a
National Scenic Byway
and
Delaware Byway
while most of the route is also designated as part of the
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway
of the Delaware Byways system. The road was built as the
Kennett Pike
, a
turnpike
, between 1811 and 1813 at a cost of $30,000. The Kennett Pike was bought by
Pierre S. du Pont
in 1919 and upgraded to a state highway. The road received the DE 52 designation by 1936.
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