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In 2001, the Dover Port Mortuary became the sole port mortuary in the continental U.S. after the mortuary at Travis Air Force Base in California closed. In 2003, the new Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs replaced the 48-year-old facility that had been in use since 1955 to identify and process the remains of over 50,000 service members.
Area code 302 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of Delaware. It is Delaware's only area code, and was assigned in 1947 as one of the original North American area codes. Despite the rapid growth in telecommunication services in the northern part of the state, area code 302 is not projected to ...
The county seat of St. Jones (renamed Kent County in 1681 [6]) is at Dover. [6] After 2000, a fourth "Appoquinimink County" was proposed to be carved out of New Castle County. The effort intended to end the zoning restrictions of the Unified Development Code on the undeveloped farmland. [10]
Delaware is divided into three counties and contains 57 incorporated places consisting of cities, towns, and villages. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Of these, there are 10 cities, 3 villages, and 44 towns. As of 2020, the largest municipality by population in Delaware is Wilmington with 70,898 residents, while the largest by area is Dover which spans 23.668 sq ...
Georgetown is a town and the county seat of Sussex County, Delaware, United States. [3] According to the 2010 census, the population of the town is 6,422, an increase of 38.3% over the previous decade. [4] Georgetown is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Harold R. "Tubby" Raymond (1926–2017) – University of Delaware football coach; College Football Hall of Famer; George Read (1733–1798) – U.S. Senator from Delaware; Chief Justice of Delaware; George Read Jr. (1765–1836) – U.S. Attorney, U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware; built the Read House and Gardens
The University of Delaware Library (2001). The Hundreds of Delaware Archived 2015-09-08 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved August 17, 2005. The Delaware Genealogical research Guide (1997). Delaware Counties and Hundreds. Retrieved August 17, 2005. The Historical Society of Delaware. Delaware Counties. Retrieved August 17, 2005.
Dover (/ ˈ d oʊ v ər / DOH-vər) is the capital and the second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Delaware. [3] It is also the county seat of Kent County and the principal city of the Dover metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Kent County and is part of the Philadelphia–Wilmington–Camden, PA–NJ–DE–MD, combined statistical area.