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This Delaware Town Has Experienced the Ultimate Revival
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Photo by Abby Shephard
Once home to a toxic industrial plant, Yorklyn has reshaped into a bustling Delaware destination perfect for tourists and locals alike.
More than a decade after National Vulcanized Fiber declared bankruptcy and shuttered its last remaining plant along Red Clay Creek in Yorklyn, the fortunes of this quiet village in northern Delaware, no longer tied to a toxic industry, now turn on the pocketbooks of day tourists and urban exiles eager for an escape out to the country.
Approaching the village on Creek Road, as the bends of the pavement leap across rapids and over historic railroad tracks, Yorklyn’s natural beauty almost conceals its sordid industrial past, when not that long ago fish were unable to survive in the water. Where once stood rows of brick and steel industrial buildings are now ruins, many reclaimed by nature or removed by the state, along with hundreds of thousands ....

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