Eastburn-Jeanes Mining Complex

Historical marker location:

Newark, Delaware

( Marker is on Upper Pipe Creek Road, on the left when traveling east.)

(c. 1816 - 1900's).

In 1954, the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education was filed in the District of Delaware. The case, which challenged the constitutionality of racial segregation in public schools, was one of the most important civil rights cases in American history.