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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RW5_old-delaware-city-public-school_Delaware-City-DE.html
Delaware City was founded in 1826, in anticipation of the opening of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. The town was incorporated in 1851. The benefits of proximity to the canal resulted in a sustained period by prosperity and expansion of the com…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEB2_sally-port_Delaware-City-DE.html
In its original state, heavy iron-studded oak doors (like the one before you) stood at both ends of the sally port. Large granite blocks, quarried in Quincy, Massachusetts, line its walls. A sample of the fort's fine brickwork can be seen on the c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAZ_batteries-hentig-and-dodd_Delaware-City-DE.html
By the turn of the century, Fort Delaware had become part of a coastal defense system, linking Fort Mott in New Jersey and Fort Dupont in Delaware. Batteries* Hentig and Dodd, which each housed two rapid-fire guns, were intended to furnish close-r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME90_pea-patch-island_Delaware-City-DE.html
Fort Delaware is located on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River. The island is sometimes said to have gotten its name from a boat loaded with peas that ran aground on a mud shoal in the 1770s. The spilled peas sprouted, mud caught in the vines,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6Q5_delaware-city-school-no-118c_Delaware-City-DE.html
In 1919 Delaware radically altered its state school system, opening a new era in the education of African-American youth. Progress was stimulated by the efforts of the Delaware School Auxiliary Association and its primary supporter, P.S. duPont, w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6KP_christ-episcopal-church_Delaware-City-DE.html
In 1847, the Reverend Andrew F. Freeman and the Reverend Thomas F. Billop were appointed as a committee to organize and solicit subscriptions for a Protestant Episcopal church in Delaware City. The parish was formally organized on May 28, 1848, wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6KO_w-emerson-wilson_Delaware-City-DE.html
In Memory ofW. Emerson Wilson1908 - 1982Through his leadership Pea Patch Island was returned to the State of Delaware by the Federal Government in 1948. He was the founder and first president of the Fort Delaware Society, January 1950 and was elec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6KL_delaware-historic-civil-engineering-landmark_Delaware-City-DE.html
Chesapeake & Delaware CanalDesignated 1982, Delaware Section, ASCE
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6KI_the-diving-bell_Delaware-City-DE.html
Made in Philadelphia 1839 for the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, it was used as an air chamber for workmen to make underwater repairs on the lock gates. The canal was opened in 1829 and was operated until the sea level canal was opened at …
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