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As Fort DuPont honors the past and shapes the future, we invite you to join our community. This newsletter shares events and updates that connect Delaware City and celebrate our area’s rich history and natural beauty.
As 2025 comes to a close, Fort DuPont is reflecting on a year defined by progress, preservation and partnership. From visible improvements across campus to behind-the-scenes restoration work, the year brought meaningful momentum to the fort.
Highlights include new banners installed along Old Elm Avenue, continued growth of the Friends of Fort DuPont campaign, and strong volunteer support for local food access initiatives, including the Food Bank of Delaware Backpack Program. These efforts reflect the shared commitment of residents, partners and volunteers who continue to invest in the future of Fort DuPont.
Follow along on our social channels for additional 2025 photo highlights celebrating the people and moments behind the year.
The Friends of Fort DuPont invite the community to support Home at the Fort, a campaign that helps keep Fort DuPont open, active and welcoming.
The Friends of Fort DuPont is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit that partners with the Fort DuPont Redevelopment and Preservation Corporation to support redevelopment through community building, preservation efforts and public programming. The Friends’ mission is to engage in community revitalization, preserve Fort DuPont’s resources, and support economic development through arts and cultural enrichment.
Your gift supports events on the Parade Ground and funds restoration work, care for open spaces and programs that make Fort DuPont feel like home.
Donations also support:
Every gift, large or small, helps safeguard Fort DuPont’s past while building its future.
How to give:
Text FORTDUPONT to 5355, or donate online.
The Friends of Fort DuPont is a nonprofit dedicated to preserving Fort DuPont’s beauty and history while building a vibrant, community-driven future. We support revitalization through arts, culture, and shared events that connect neighbors and celebrate Delaware City.
What makes Fort DuPont and Delaware City feel like home is not just the place. It is the people.
Throughout 2025, residents, local leaders, public employees and nonprofit and private-sector partners strengthened the Fort DuPont effort through collaboration, responsiveness and shared pride in the community. That spirit showed up in tangible ways this year. Nearly 500 individuals and families attended 10 public events on campus, made possible through partnerships with Delaware Shakespeare, Urban Sketchers, Delaware Friends of Folk, Tri-State Bird Rescue, Fort DuPont State Park and living-history organizations.
The FDRPC also stayed engaged beyond the campus by participating in Delaware City traditions such as Juneteenth, National Night Out and Delaware City Day, and by volunteering alongside local partners, including the Delaware City Library, Rotary Club, the Food Closet of Delaware City and the Food Bank of Delaware.
As one resident described it, the daily “joyful noise” of progress is reconnecting neighbors across the canal.
Delaware City Christmas Parade
From Wilmington take I-95 south to DE Route 1 south toward Dover. Take exit 152 for Delaware City and Route 72. Turn left on Route 72 and follow into Delaware City. Go through the traffic light at Clinton Street and continue over the Branch Canal Bridge. Take your first left, which will put you onto Old Elm Ave and into Fort DuPont. Follow Old Elm Ave along the parade ground (on your right) to the first building on the right, 260 Old Elm Ave.
Fort DuPont is a lifestyle-based community designed around the water and great outdoors.
A place where bicycling, boating, walking, hiking, and birding are the norm and not the exception.