Infinite Road
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Narrated by The Broadcaster 133 km · about 84 min · 17 stories

Up the Delaware through the Revolution's ten crucial days: du Pont's powder mills on the Brandywine, the siege of Fort Mercer, the exiled Joseph Bonaparte's New Jersey estate, the steel town of Roebling, and the Old Barracks at Trenton — where the war turned.

The stories

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  1. 1
    Wilmington, Delaware

    Eleuthère Irénée du Pont's Mill

  2. 2
    New Castle, Delaware

    The New Castle Court House

  3. 3
    Pennsville, New Jersey

    The Dupont Chambers Works Lawsuit

  4. 4
    Pedricktown, New Jersey

    The Lenape and Lenapehoking

  5. 5
    Swedesboro, New Jersey

    The Siege of Fort Mercer Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  6. 6
    Mickleton, New Jersey

    The Siege of Fort Mercer Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  7. 7
    West Deptford, New Jersey

    The Siege of Fort Mercer Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  8. 8
    Runnemede, New Jersey

    The Quaker Settlement of West Jersey

  9. 9
    Cherry Hill, New Jersey

    Lafayette's First Command at Gloucester

  10. 10
    Mount Laurel, New Jersey

    The Mount Laurel Doctrine

  11. 11
    Mount Laurel, New Jersey

    The Lenape Lands of Coaxen

  12. 12
    Westampton, New Jersey

    The Burr Family Home Peachfield

  13. 13
    Bordentown, New Jersey

    The Steel Town of Roebling

  14. 14
    Bordentown, New Jersey

    The Exile of Joseph Bonaparte

  15. 15
    Trenton, New Jersey

    Trenton's Industrial Legacy

  16. 16
    Trenton, New Jersey

    The Old Barracks of Trenton

  17. 17
    Princeton, New Jersey

    The Engineering of the Drawbridge

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.