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Delaware Federal Writers' Project; Delaware: A Guide to the First State (famous WPA guidebook 1938) Hancock, Harold. "Civil War Comes to Delaware." Civil War History 2.4 (1956): 29-46 online. Hancock, Harold Bell. The Loyalists of Revolutionary Delaware (2nd ed 1977) online free to borrow; Johnson, Amandus The Swedes in America 1638–1900: Vol.
This is a list of the individual Delaware year pages. In 1776, the Delaware General Assembly of Delaware Colony voted to break all ties with the British Empire , establishing itself as the State of Delaware, amid the other Thirteen Colonies declaring independence and drafting constitutions during the American Revolution .
June 15 – American Revolution: Delaware Separation Day: The Delaware General Assembly votes to suspend government under the British Crown. [1]July 4 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence, in which the United States officially declares independence from the British Empire, is approved by the Continental Congress and signed by its president, John Hancock ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [1] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [2]
November 5, 1961 (Wilmington: New Castle: The oldest surviving church from New Sweden, it hosted services in Swedish from 1698 well into the 1800s.: 8: Howard High School: Howard High School
After Muncietown was selected as Delaware County’s seat of justice in 1827, three settlers — William Brown, Lemuel Jackson and Goldsmith Gilbert — donated property to the state for a county ...
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Oct. 28—The Delaware County Historical Association was one of 20 history-related organizations across the state to receive a $5,000 grant from the Pomeroy Fund. Educators receiving support ...