Gary Bartlett waters flower baskets on Barksdale Avenue, the main street of DuPont's Historic Village, where most of the homes maintain their historic integrity.

A jogger trots past a sculpture at the entrance to Northwest Landing, a 3,000- acre planned community in DuPont

Intel technician Dan Dunham prepares to test the noise level put out by a personal computer cooling system at the company's DuPont site.

Nina Ogren stands in front of her home in DuPont's historic neighborhood. She was born in the house in 1910. Her father, a Swedish immigrant, came to DuPont in 1909 to work at the explosives plant.

A new house, already sold, gets a coat of classic white, one of the approved colors for homes in Northwest Landing.

Dana Bitow, 12, and Katie Madrid, 11, make waves in the pool beside Dana's parent's house. Dana is the fourth generation of her family to live in the house.

Pat Goodhind and David Warnick, neighbors as well as the first two residents of Northwest Landing, chat about neighborhood concerns. Both are active in DuPont politics.

Lorraine Overmyer with her grandson, Kyle, and her daughter, Linda James, stands in front of the 1910 house the Overmyers restored.

Children ride their bicycles through DuPont's Historic Village on a summer day. The houses were built in the early 1900s for employees of the duPont de Nemours Co.'s local explosives plant.