Ardencroft
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village in New Castle County, Delaware, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Delaware
- County
- New Castle
- Total
- 0.089 sq mi (0.23 km )
- Land
- 0.089 sq mi (0.23 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 279 ft (85 m)
- Density
- 2,544.3/sq mi (982.37/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 10-01530
- Website
- ardencroft .delaware .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Ardencroft
- Population
- 226
- Area
- 0.261805
- Elevation
- 87
- Official website
- www.theardens.com/ardencroft.htm
- Households
- 87
- Dialing code
- 302
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- water as percent of area
- 0
- per capita income
- 47256
- Commons category
- Ardencroft, Delaware
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Ardencroft is a village in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. According to the 2020 census, the population of the village is 226.
The village 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. The last of seventeen land trusts founded between 1894 and 1950, Ardencroft's tax structure is based on the single tax economic philosophy of Henry George. As a result, a person's house is not taxed, only the land it sits on, which is owned by a charitable trust and managed by three directors. Half the land is woods and open space. Footpaths criss-cross the village. At its founding in 1950, Ardencroft formally encouraged minorities to settle there, seeking families that wanted to live in an integrated setting. The nearby, former Arden School (now the Buzz Ware Village Center) also allowed integration around this time, prior to many of the changes enacted by the Civil Rights Movement.