Brandywine River Restoration Trust removes second dam as part of its restoration project

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In the late 1700s and early 1800s, the Brandywine River powered Delaware’s industrial rise.

Along a 5-mile stretch, more than 130 mills transformed grain, tobacco and other raw materials into flour, cornmeal, snuff and, most famously, gunpowder…

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