Map of Ardencroft village

Ardencroft is a village in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. According to the 2010 census, the population of the village is 231.

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.

Civil rights and suffragist activist, prolific writer, pilot, librarian, lecturer, and educator Pauline A. Young (1900 to 1991) moved into Ardencroft around this time. The outspoken Young was famous for having joined the NAACP in 1912 at the age of 12, lectured and worked conferences with W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1930s, and in 1965 marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama.

Ardencroft village overview:
Name:	Ardencroft village
LSAD Code:	47
LSAD Description:	village (suffix)
State:	Delaware
County:	New Castle County
Elevation:	279 ft (85 m)
Total Area:	0.09 sq mi (0.23 km²)
Land Area:	0.09 sq mi (0.23 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	226
Population Density:	2,539.33/sq mi (982.37/km²)
Area code:	302
FIPS code:	1001530
GNISfeature ID:	217491

Online Interactive Map

Ardencroft online map. Source: Basemap layers from Google Map, Open Street Map (OSM), Arcgisonline, Wmflabs. Boundary Data from Database of Global Administrative Areas.