Ardencroft was founded in 1950 as an outgrowth of Arden and Ardentown with a conceptual lifestyle based on Henry George's Single tax movement and William Morris ’ s Arts and Crafts principles.

At its founding in 1950, Ardencroft formally encouraged minorities to settle there, actively seeking out families that wanted to live in an integrated setting.

Ardencroft is a village in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.

Ardencroft is located at ( 39. 805962 ,-75. 487616 ).

Young ( 1900 to 1991 ) moved into Ardencroft around this time.

The town of Bellefonte, the villages of Arden, Ardencroft, and Ardentown, the Claymont and Edgemoor Census Designated Places ( CDP ), and the community of Talleyville are in Brandywine Hundred.

That girl last night, what was her name??

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.

My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.

Fortunately the hole was found at last and plugged.

At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.

`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

Copernicus, by placing the sun at the center of the planetary universe, was able to reduce the number of epicycles from eighty-three to seventeen.

In seventeen weeks the military front was driven southward more than 100 miles.

O'Banion's first conflict with the police came in 1909, at seventeen, when he was committed to Bridewell Prison for three months for burglary ; ;

Sultan Ahmed III had become unpopular by reason of the excessive pomp and costly luxury in which he and his principal officers indulged ; on September 20, 1730, a mutinous riot of seventeen janissaries, led by the Albanian Patrona Halil, was aided by the citizens as well as the military until it swelled into an insurrection in front of which the Sultan was forced to give up the throne.

The first paper on boxing was published in the late 18th century by successful Birmingham boxer ' William Futrell ' who remained undefeated until his one hour and seventeen minute fight at Smitham Bottom, Croydon, on July 9, 1788 against a much younger " Gentleman " John Jackson which was attended by the Prince of Wales.

Monsieur Savary himself gave him a strong grounding in drawing and painting and suggested he draw from nature when he returned to St. Thomas, which he did when he was seventeen.

Parton's first solo single for RCA, " Just Because I'm a Woman ", was released in the summer of 1968 and was a moderate chart hit, reaching number seventeen.

At seventeen, Emily attended the Roe Head girls ' school, where Charlotte was a teacher, but managed to stay only three months before being overcome by extreme homesickness.

Prince Morasada was seventeen years of age at the time of the succession.

Its dream ballet sequence, lasting an unprecedented seventeen minutes, was the most expensive production number ever filmed up to that point.

When a union of the evangelicals in upper and lower Germany was contemplated as a means of improved defense against the retaliatory measures of the Roman Catholic Church, George had a meeting with Elector John of Saxony at Schleitz in 1529, where they agreed on certain articles of faith and confession to be drawn up by Luther ; the commission was executed in the seventeen articles of Schwabach on the basis of the fifteen theses of the Marburg Colloquy.

He was born in London, one of seventeen children of Joshua Mayhew.

MacBeth ruled for seventeen years before he was overthrown by Máel Coluim, the son of Donnchad, who some months later defeated MacBeth's step-son and successor Lulach to become king Máel Coluim III ( Malcolm III ).

At seventeen he was grossing $ 2, 400 a year — a handsome sum for the times.

As a warrior he had served honorably alongside his father Babur during the Battle of Khanwa while he was just seventeen years old.

He was accompanied by Giuseppe Marchi, then aged about seventeen.

In the process, the book was enlarged from six chapters to seventeen.

" Samuel Smiles stated that he was " the scion of a distinguished Béarnese family "; although it is probable that the poverty of his parents would have excluded him from a learned career if some of the leading Protestants of the district had not charged themselves with the expenses of his education, which was begun under M. Jean de la Placette, the minister of Nay, He studied at Puylaurens, the Academy of Saumur, and the Academy of Sedan, receiving the degree of doctor in theology, it is said, at the age of seventeen.

An example of such intellectual catholicity was set by Anatoli himself ; for, in the course of his " Malmad ," he not only cites incidentally allegoric suggestions made to him by Frederick II., but several times — Güdemann has counted seventeen — he offers the exegetic remarks of a certain Christian savant of whose association he speaks most reverently, and whom, furthermore, he names as his second master besides Samuel ibn Tibbon.

When Joseph was seventeen years old, Jacob made a long coat or tunic of many colors for him.