Packet Alley off The Strand in Old New Castle, so named because it was where stagecoaches met passengers arriving on packet boats coming down the Delaware River from Philadelphia for the trip to Frenchtown, Maryland, to catch another boat down the Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore and points south. The building, now a private home, was used as a general store for many years — hence the advertising — and as late as the early 1970s housed a liquor store.
Packet Alley off The Strand in Old New Castle, so named because it was where stagecoaches met passengers arriving on packet boats coming down the Delaware River from Philadelphia for the trip to Frenchtown, Maryland, to catch another boat down the Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore and points south. The building, now a private home, was used as a general store for many years — hence the advertising — and as late as the early 1970s housed a liquor store.