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Establishment of Eleutherian Mills

When
1802
Where
Brandywine Creek
Part of
Éleuthère Irénée du Pont founds E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company

By 1802, Du Pont established his business and family home, Eleutherian Mills, on the Brandywine Creek in Delaware.

Du Pont started the company at the Eleutherian Mills on the Brandywine Creek, near Wilmington, Delaware. This occurred two years after his family left France to escape the French Revolution and religious persecution against Huguenot Protestants.

Sources

  1. Éleuthère Irénée du Pont Wikipedia, revision of 2026-05-21
  2. DuPont Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-30

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