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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 March 2025. U.S. state This article is about the U.S. state. For other uses, see Delaware (disambiguation). State in the United States Delaware State Flag Seal Nickname(s): The First State; The Small Wonder; Blue Hen State; The Diamond State Motto: Liberty and Independence Anthem: "Our Delaware ...
The location of the state of Delaware in the United States of America An enlargeable map of the state of Delaware An enlargeable map of the 3 counties of the state of Delaware. Indigenous peoples; Netherlands colony of Nieuw-Nederland, 1624–1652; Swedish colony of Nya Sverige, 1638–1655; Netherlands province of Nieuw-Nederland, 1652–1664
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.
The great seal of the state of Delaware: First adopted in 1777, with the current version being adopted in 2004. It contains the state coat of arms surrounded by the inscription "Great Seal of the State of Delaware" and the dates 1704, 1776 and 1787. 1777 [2] Motto "Liberty and Independence" Derived from the Order of Cincinnati: 1847 — Nicknames
Delaware home where John Dickinson wrote Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania analyzing economic difficulties of colonial America, before the American Revolutionary War: 5: Eleutherian Mills: Eleutherian Mills
The Chesapeake Peninsula, more frequently referenced today as the Delmarva Peninsula, or simply Delmarva — called as such in abbreviation of the contemporary U.S. states whose borders overlay it: Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia — is a peninsula on the East Coast of the United States, occupied by the majority of the state of Delaware and parts of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Eastern ...
Delaware's most populous city is Wilmington, and the state's capital is Dover, the second-most populous city in Delaware. The state is divided into three counties, the fewest number of counties of any of the 50 U.S. states; from north to south, the three counties are: New Castle County, Kent County, and Sussex County. The southern two counties ...
Kent County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Delaware. As of the 2020 census, the population was 181,851, making it the least populous county in Delaware. [1] The county seat is Dover, [2] the state capital of Delaware. It is named for Kent, an English county. [3]