Laura Jury, Marketing Manager, and Lucas Clawson, Hagley Historian, discussed the renowned property, a fun and educational site for all ages and a vital repository for business scholars. Lucas described its evolution, founded in 1802 it was one of the first business successes for the duPonts, manufacturing in large scale, black powder. Today the property contains restored mills, a workers’ community, and the ancestral home and gardens of the du Pont family. Covering over 240 acres visiters can tour by tram.
Hagley’s library research collections include individuals’ papers and companies’ records ranging from eighteenth-century merchants to the only complete set of Enron’s minutes. Laura mentioned that it was the recent subject of a Jeopardy! category on patents and described their new and first permanent exhibit, Nation of Inventors, a display of the vast patent model collection.
Learn more about touring Hagley, as a family or a classroom, at HAGLEY.org