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98 unusual facts about Delaware


166th Airlift Wing

On 9 April 1968, the Delaware Air National Guard was called to state duty to quell civil disturbance and violence in the city of Wilmington, Delaware.

1st Delaware Infantry Regiment

A "new" 1st Regiment of Delaware Volunteers was raised at Wilmington, Delaware between September 10 and October 19, 1861.

Accordingly, the 1st Delaware was raised at Wilmington, Delaware on May 22, 1861 and mustered into Federal service on May 28.

2007–08 Orlando Magic season

Point guard Jameer Nelson's father, Floyd "Pete" Nelson, disappeared on August 30, and was found dead in the Delaware River in Wilmington, Delaware, on September 2.

Bethany Beach

Bethany Beach, Delaware, a beach resort town in Delaware in the United States

Biflex Products Corporation

Two Biflex Products Corporation plants were sold to Oakes Products Corporation at a receivership sale in Wilmington, Delaware on November 4,

Billy Bailey

He later appeared at the home of his foster sister, Sue Ann Coker, in Cheswold, Delaware, saying he was upset and was not going back to the Plummer House.

Bluewater Wind

As such, Bluewater is executing projects in Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island and has begun expanding project development opportunities into the Great Lakes.

Butch Lewis

Lewis died of a massive heart attack at his home in Bethany Beach, Delaware.

Charles Henry Wharton

In May, 1784, having adopted the views of the Church of England, he published his celebrated "Letter to the Roman Catholics of Worcester" (Philadelphia, 1784), and became rector of Immanuel Church, New Castle, Delaware.

Chick Lang

Following a lengthy Illness, Chick Lang died on June 14, 1947 at age forty-one in Wilmington, Delaware where he had been training at Delaware Park.

Christiana High School

Christiana High School is a public high school in Newark, Delaware.

Chuck Wicks

In January 2009, his charity concert in his hometown of Smyrna raised $25,000 for the Smyrna-Clayton Boys and Girls Club.

City of Lewes

Lewes, Delaware, a city in Sussex County, Delaware, in the United States

Colorado Army National Guard

The 947th Engineer Company (CSE) was augmented with a platoon of the 160th Engineer Company (CSE) from Middletown, Delaware.

Confederate Stamp Alliance

Editor-in-chief of the project is Patricia A. (Trish) Kaufmann of Lincoln, Delaware who is responsible for collecting philatelic inputs for the catalog update from members as well as non-members.

Dawson v. Delaware

After burglarizing one home in Kenton, Dawson entered the home of Richard and Madeline Kisner.

Del-One

Eligibility for membership is extended to employees of the State of Delaware; anyone who lives, works or worships in Georgetown, Milford, Newark, Wilmington and the West Dover area, and over 200 select employee groups.

Del-One was granted a community charter the following year to serve the communities of Wilmington and Georgetown.

Delaware SPCA Law Enforcement

They are based out of the Kent County SPCA in Camden, Delaware.

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western 1151 class

Another was the Interstate Express (Train 1301), received from the Reading Railroad/Jersey Central at Taylor Junction, near Scranton, and hauled to Binghamton, New York.

The five locomotives only lasted ten years in their original intended assignments, since the Lackawanna dieselized its express passenger trains in 1947.

One assignment was the early morning Merchants Express (Train 26) from Scranton to Hoboken, New Jersey, returning in the late afternoon hauling the Scrantonian (Train 11).

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad

This gave it a branch from Binghamton north and northwest via Syracuse, and incorporated the Valley Railroad to build a connection from Great Bend to Binghamton to avoid having to use Erie's trackage.

Delaware's at-large congressional district special election, 1805

Bayard had earlier served in the House in the 5th, 6th, and 7th Congresses before being narrowly defeated for re-election in 1802 by Caesar A. Rodney, whom he, in turn, defeated in 1804.

Delaware's at-large congressional district special election, 1807

However, Broom did not serve this second term, instead resigning as well, before the start of the Tenth Congress.

Delcastle Technical High School

Additionally, Delcastle Technical's campus includes the Marshallton building in Marshallton, Delaware and houses the medical, foreign language studies, and business technology programs.

Desmond Bryant

That was his only year playing high school football in North Carolina; Bryant played football and basketball for three years while attending high school in Middletown, Delaware and played for the East Bladen basketball team for two seasons.

Diamond State Base Ball Club

In 2013, the Diamond State Base Ball Club traveled to Harrington, Delaware to participate again in the Championship Tournament of the Mid-Atlantic Vintage Base Ball League.

Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle

Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, p.

Dodge Spirit

It was assembled at Newark Assembly in Newark, Delaware as well as Toluca Car Assembly in Toluca, Mexico, and shared its basic design with the 1990 to 1994 Chrysler LeBaron sedan, the 1989 to 1995 Plymouth Acclaim, and the export-only 1989 to 1995 Chrysler Saratoga.

Doe v. Cahill

In 2004, an anonymous internet user, referred to in the decision as Doe, posted comments under the alias "Proud Citizen" on a website called the "Smyrna/Clayton Issues Blog" regarding the performance of Patrick and Julia Cahill as City Councilman of Smyrna.

Edward Robert Armstrong

In 1926 he incorporated the "Armstrong Seadrome Development Company", of Wilmington, Delaware.

Edward Tatnall

Edward Tatnall (1782–1856) was a miller and railroad executive based in Wilmington, Delaware.

Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Delaware

The Christina River at Cooch's Bridge crested at 2.38 feet (0.725 m) above flood stage, and the Red Clay Creek at Wooddale crested at roughly 4 inches (100 mm) above flood stage.

Elbert Weinberg

Among his most acclaimed works are the Joie de Danse in the Portman San Francisco hotel and the 1980 Holocaust Memorial at Freedom Plaza in Wilmington, Delaware.

Emanual Davis

As a 6'4" (1.96 m) guard, Davis played college basketball at Delaware State University in Dover, Delaware.

Eric Boateng

He attended high school at St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware.

Eric Boateng attended Ernest Bevin College in Tooting, South London, between 1997-2002, he later attended high school at St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware, where he averaged 19.6 points, 13.6 rebounds and 4.6 blocked shots a game.

Extravehicular Mobility Unit

The EMU hardware and accessories (PLSS, helmet, communications cap, and locking rings for the helmet and gloves), is manufactured by the Hamilton Sundstrand division of United Technologies out of Windsor Locks, Connecticut, while the suit's soft components (the arms of the HUT and the entire LTU) are produced by ILC Dover out of Frederica, Delaware.

Fairmount, Delaware

It is one of the Three Sisters communities consisting of Fairmount, Hollyville, and Hollymount.

Foster Friess

In 1964, he began his investment career, joining the Brittingham family-controlled NYSE member firm in Wilmington, Delaware, where he eventually rose to the position of Director of Research.

Franz-Olivier Giesbert

Franz-Olivier Giesbert (born January 18, 1949 in Wilmington, Delaware) is a French journalist and author.

Galen Giaccone

Galen Giaccone, (born May 5, 1988) is an American beauty queen from Wyoming, Delaware who was crowned Miss Delaware 2008 and competed for the title of Miss America 2009 which was ultimately won by Katie Stam of Indiana.

Genevieve Blinn

A comedy in three acts, the play was staged at the Wilmington, Delaware Opera House.

George Thorogood

Thorogood was born on February 24, 1950 and was raised in Naamans Manor, a neighborhood in suburban Wilmington, Delaware, where his father worked for DuPont.

Grand Slam Prize in harness racing

From 2001-2003, the Grand Slam Prize of $1 million was offered to any harness racing pacer who could win the North America Cup (Woodbine Racetrack, Toronto), Meadowlands Pace (Meadowlands Racetrack, N.J.), Little Brown Jug (Delaware County Fair, Ohio) and their Breeders Crown event (Meadowlands Racetrack, NJ).

Henry Milligan

He is the president of the Elsmere, Delaware Boxing Club, a civic member of the Mary Campbell Center for Disabled Adults and the Delaware Foundation for Retarded Children.

Henry Molleston

In 1819 he was elected Governor of Delaware by defeating Manaen Bull of Laurel, the Democratic-Republican candidate, but died shortly after the election and before taking office.

Hershey Run

It rises on the edge of the Belvedere subdivision on the outskirts of Newport, Delaware and flows southward along the western edge of that town.

Hilltop Manor

Hilltop Manor, Delaware, an unincorporated community in New Castle County

Hodgson Vo-Tech High School

Paul M. Hodgson Vocational-Technical High School is a public school in Newark, Delaware and is among four high schools within the New Castle County Vocational-Technical School District, which includes Delcastle Technical High School in Newport, Howard High School of Technology in Wilmington, and St. Georges Technical High School in St. Georges.

Holly Oak gorget

The Holly Oak Gorget or Holly Oak Pendant is an artifact made from a section of shell that is engraved with the image of an extinct woolly mammoth reportedly found in Holly Oak, Delaware and initially identified as an example of Paleoindian art.

Hollymount, Delaware

It is one of the Three Sisters communities consisting of Fairmount, Hollyville, and Hollymount.

Hollyville, Delaware

It is one of the Three Sisters communities consisting of Fairmount, Hollyville, and Hollymount.

Jesper Swedberg

Some copies were however sent to Swedish colonies overseas, such as to New Sweden, Delaware.

John C. Meyer

General Meyer then returned to a tactical flying unit in August 1950 when he assumed command of the 4th Fighter Wing at New Castle, Delaware.

John Trippe

On 26 April, Trippe transferred to the command of Vixen and, a month later, departed New Castle, Delaware, bound for New Orleans, Louisiana.

Joseph Tatnall

Among Tatnall's partners in shipping ventures was Joseph Shallcross, a miller, West Indies trader, and, from 1790 to 1792, mayor of Wilmington.

Joshua Clayton

The General Assembly there-upon adjourned to the tavern of Thomas Hale, at Duck Creek Cross-Roads and continued their session.

Kent A. Jordan

Previously, Jordan was Vice President and General Counsel for the Corporation Service Company from 1998-2002 in Wilmington, Delaware.

Knowlton Township, New Jersey

In their heyday, however, two rail lines and three railroads served the town of Delaware: the New York, Susquehanna and Western (formerly Blairstown) Railway; and the Old Road of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (which also had granted trackage rights to the Pennsylvania Railroad, technically a sixth railroad).

Komla Agbeli Gbedemah

In the United States, Gbedemah is most widely known from an incident on 10 October 1957 when U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to him after he was refused service in a Howard Johnson's restaurant in Dover, Delaware.

Live: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Recorded live in Newark, Delaware by Nicky Rotundo with the Clay Creek analog mobile unit
Mixed by Nicky Rotundo with Cliffy Huntington at Clay Creek Recording Studios, Newark
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Studios, Tenafly.

Matthew Newkirk

Newkirk spent much of the 1830s leading efforts to raise money for and then build a rail line from Philadelphia south to the cities of Wilmington, Delaware, and Baltimore.

Maxim Staviski

At the end of the season, they parted ways with Gorshkov and moved to Newark, Delaware, U.S., to train with Natalia Linichuk and Gennadi Karponosov.

Melody Woodin

Melody Woodin (born April 2, 1986) is an American fashion model from Hockessin, Delaware.

Melvin L. Morse

Prior to his arrest, he was working as a pediatrician at an office in Milton, Delaware.

Michael J. Hurd

He is the author of numerous self-help books, as well as the weekly column "Life's A Beach!" published in the Delaware Wave and the Delaware Coast Press, in Bethany Beach, and Rehoboth Beach, both in Sussex County, Delaware

As of 2005, his practice and offices are located in Ocean View, Delaware in the United States.

Miracle Strip Amusement Park

The Blue Thunder was taken to Blue Diamond Amusement Park in New Castle, Delaware which closed in 2008.

My Ántonia

Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, Delaware brews a continually-hopped imperial pilsner named My Ántonia.

Nancy Harkness Love

By June 1943, Nancy Love was commanding four different squadrons of WAFS at Love Field, Texas; New Castle, Delaware; Romulus, Michigan; and Long Beach, California.

Napeague, New York

After a drop in the supply of menhaden, Smith closed the plant in 1969 along with plants at Lewes, Delaware, and Crab Island, New Jersey.

Omar, Delaware

Omar is an unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States, located at the crossroads of Delaware Route 20 and Sussex County Road 54 and between the towns of Dagsboro and Roxana.

Outerbridge Horsey

Horsey was born March 5, 1777 in Little Creek Hundred, near Laurel, Delaware.

Peter Ruckman

A native of Wilmington, Delaware, Peter Ruckman is a son of Colonel John Hamilton Ruckman (1888–1966) and a grandson of General John Wilson Ruckman (1858–1921).

Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Bridge No. 1

In 1838, the PW&B built the first permanent bridge here to complete the first direct rail link from Philadelphia to Wilmington, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland.

Phineas Banning

Banning was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the seventh of 11 children to John Alford Banning (1790–1851) and Elizabeth Lowber (1792–1861).

Pluggy

Originally from a Mohawk band, Pluggy gathered a number of Mingo and Iroquois followers and moved westward eventually setting on the site of Delaware, Ohio in 1772.

Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge

Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge is an inviolate sanctuary expressly for migratory birds, located east of Milton, Delaware.

Public School No. 111-C

Public School No. 111-C is a historic rural school building located at Christiana, New Castle County, Delaware.

Ray Riddick

and then, before heading to college, the Archmere Academy, at the time an all-boys Roman Catholic preparatory boarding school in Claymont, Delaware.

Reedy Island

It is located approximately 1 mi (1.6 km) east of Port Penn, Delaware and 5 mi (8 km) southwest of Salem, New Jersey.

Reggie Branch

Branch works at the Starboard Restaurant and Bar, located in Dewey Beach, Delaware.

Ron Waller

Prior to his professional career, Waller played for Laurel High School and the University of Maryland.

Sandtown

Sandtown, Delaware, an unincorporated community in Kent County, Delaware, USA

Simeon S. Pennewill

Pennewill inherited and continued to operate his family's peach orchards in Greenwood and Bridgeville.

Sir John Beresford, 1st Baronet

During the War of 1812, he served as captain of HMS Poictiers, during which time he ineffectually bombarded the town of Lewes, Delaware.

Smyrna

Several American cities have been named after Smyrna, including Smyrna, Georgia; Smyrna, Tennessee; Smyrna, Delaware and New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

Stun belt

Introduced in the United States in the early 1990s, by 1996 it was reportedly in use by the US Bureau of Prisons, the US Marshals Service, and 16 state correctional agencies including those of Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington.

Sylvia H. Rambo

She began her legal career as an attorney for the Trust Department of the Bank of Delaware in Wilmington, Delaware from 1962 to 1963.

Taft Bridge

A replica of the Bairstow eagles is seen in a World War I monument in Middletown, Delaware.

The Haas Brothers

In 2000, the Haas Brothers joined Newark, Delaware based East Coast Wrestling Association where they once again received success in the tag team division of ECWA.

Ulmus americana 'Delaware'

The American Elm Ulmus americana cultivar 'Delaware' was originally selected (as tree number 218) from 35,000 seedlings inoculated with the Dutch elm disease fungus in USDA trials at Morristown, New Jersey.

West Orange Road-Thomas Bridge

The West Orange Road-Thomas Bridge is located off of Township Road 144 near the intersection of West Orange Road in Delaware, Ohio.

WTSD-CA

On June 22, 2007 WTSD-CA resumed analog transmission at Christiana, Delaware facilities.

WZPA-LD

On April 1, 1999 William E. Mattis, Jr. sold construction permit to Mediacasting LLC of Greenville, Delaware.


1790 in the United States

January 6 – Arnold Naudain, United States Senator from Delaware from 1830 till 1836.

1909 in the United States

May 15 – J. Caleb Boggs, United States Senator from Delaware from 1961 till 1973.

Aviation in Delaware

New castle county airport in northern Delaware is the state's only commercial airport and has seen prior service from airlines including Delta, and United and Skybus.

Battle of Longwoods

Late in December, 1813, the British established an outpost at Delaware, roughly halfway between these two positions, and another at Port Talbot on the shore of Lake Erie.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

Other multi-state organizations include CareFirst in the Mid-Atlantic, The Regence Group in the Pacific Northwest, and Highmark which serves Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia.

Burke's Tavern

Near the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the Union Brigadier General Thomas Alfred Smyth of Delaware, wounded at the Battle of High Bridge was brought to the house, where he died on April 9.

Charles I. du Pont

He lived with his parents in New York until they established themselves in the wool manufacturing business at Louviers, across the Brandywine Creek from the DuPont powder mills and near Greenville, Delaware.

CKHS

Crozer-Keystone Health System, based in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States

Cohoquinoque Creek

These tracks ran from the Delaware River to Broad Street and connected to the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad tracks on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Controversy on the Delaware: A Look Upstream at the Tocks Island Dam Project

Controversy on the Delaware: A Look Upstream at the Tocks Island Dam Project is a video documentary that investigates the controversial Tocks Island Dam Project, a plan proposed in 1965 for the United States Army Corps of Engineers to build a dam across the Delaware River six miles upstream from the Delaware Water Gap.

Delaware Army National Guard

In the War of 1812 all Delaware volunteer units saw service at Lewes, where they comprised the bulk of force that drove off a British naval squadron seeking control of the Delaware River.

Delaware Bay

After the British took title to the New Netherland colony in 1667 at the Treaty of Breda the bay came into their possession and was renamed with the river Delaware, after the first Governor of Virginia Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr.

Delaware lunar sample displays

The Delaware Apollo 17 lunar samples plaque display was presented by NASA astronaut Paul Joseph Weitz to then-Delaware Governor Sherman W. Tribbitt on January 21, 1975.

Denise Low

A 5th generation Kansan of mixed German, Scots, Lenape (Delaware), English, French, and Cherokee heritage, she was born and grew up in Emporia, Kansas, where she began her writing career as a high school correspondent for the Emporia Gazette.

Dodd House

Dodd Homestead, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

Esopus Wars

Today, some of their descendants live on the Stockbridge-Munsee reservation in Shawano County, Wisconsin as well as among the Munsee Delaware of Ontario.

Frank Schoonover

He also gave art lessons, established a small art school in his studio, designed stain glass windows, and dabbled in science fiction art (illustrating Edgar Rice BurroughsA Princess of Mars), he was known locally as the “Dean of Delaware Artists.”

Harry Richardson

Harry A. Richardson (1853–1928), American businessman and politician in Delaware

Henry Davis Sleeper

Isabella Stewart Gardner commissined work from him; Henry Francis du Pont engaged his assistance with the big new wing of the family's massive Delaware house, Winterthur, now a famed museum of American decorative arts; he designed for Hollywood stars Joan Crawford and Fredric March.

Hi-Q

Kimberly-Clark Hi-Q is a U.S. high school academic quiz competition originating in Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Isaac McCoy

McCoy, his son John, his daughter Delilah and her missionary husband Johnston Lykins, worked together as missionaries to the Shawnee and Lenape (Delaware), following them to what is now Kansas City, Missouri, on the border of Indian Territory and near their reservations.

John McNutt

John G. McNutt, professor of Urban Affairs at the University of Delaware

Joseph M. McDade

Regionally, McDade was the principal advocate for the Tobyhanna Army Depot and was instrumental in establishing the Delaware Water Gap Recreation Area, the Steamtown National Historic Site, and the National Fishery Laboratory in Wellsboro.

Louis L. Redding

Redding, the first African American to be admitted to the Delaware bar, was part of the NAACP legal team that challenged school segregation in the Brown v. Board of Education case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Maianthemum trifolium

Maianthemum trifolium (syn. Smilacina trifolia, Three-leaf Solomon’s-seal, three-leaf Solomon’s-plume, smilacine trifoliée) is a species of flowering plant that is native to Canada and the northeastern United States, from Yukon and British Columbia east to Newfoundland and south to Delaware.

Minsi

Mount Minsi, a hill on the Pennsylvania side of Delaware Water Gap

Neal Brown

Before joining Larry Blakeney's staff at Troy to work under Tony Franklin, he spent one-year assistant coaching stints at UMass, Sacred Heart, and Delaware.

Orphan bridge

An example of this is the abandoned Conrail bridge which parallels Delaware Avenue and crosses U.S. Route 9W in Kingston, NY.

Philabundance

The Citizens Bank Foundation, the charitable arm of the Citizens Financial Group,Inc., donated $25000 in July 2010 to Philabundance for low-income families in the Delaware Valley.

Richard H. Ellis

He was awarded the State of Delaware Distinguished Service Medal by Governor Walter W. Bacon in 1946.

Route 1 Rivalry

The other choices were "The Diamond State Trophy", a reference to Thomas Jefferson calling Delaware a "diamond among the states"; the "Battle for the Saddle", a reference to Caesar Rodney's ride to Philadelphia to cast Delaware's deciding vote for the Declaration of Independence; and the "Battle for the Hatchet", a reference to Delaware's Return Day tradition of burying a hatchet after elections.

Senate Conservatives Fund

The PAC also supported a number of candidates that lost their elections, including Sharron Angle in Nevada, Ken Buck in Colorado, Joe Miller in Alaska, John Raese in West Virginia, Dino Rossi in Washington, and Christine O'Donnell in Delaware.

Snyder Estate Natural Cement Historic District

Sixteen years later, Jacob ceded a portion of his land to John B. Jervis of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, allowing it to be built across the property with the condition that the company build him a slip so he could use it to ship his produce to market, and a bridge to reach his mill.

Thomas Bayard

Thomas F. Bayard (1828–1898), politician from U.S. state of Delaware

Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. (1868–1942), politician from U.S. state of Delaware

Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr

Thomas West, 3rd and 12th Baron De La Warr (9 July 1577 – 7 June 1618) was the Englishman after whom the bay, the river, and, consequently, a Native American people and U.S. state, all later called "Delaware", were named.

United States House of Representatives election in Delaware, 2014

The 2014 United States House of Representatives election in Delaware will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014 to elect the U.S. Representative from Delaware's at-large congressional district, who will represent the state of Delaware in the 114th United States Congress.

USS Peerless

USS Peerless (AMc-93), laid down 14 April 1941 by Delaware Bay Shipbuilding Co., Leesburg, New Jersey.

Virginia A. Seitz

Seitz's father, Collins J. Seitz, was a chancellor of Delaware who wrote the 1952 decision in Gebhart v. Belton, which paved the way for Brown v. Board of Education.

WJBR

WJBR-FM, an FM radio station licensed to Wilmington, Delaware

Wometco Home Theater

PRISM, an over-the-air and cable television subscription service that served Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, Delaware and the Delmarva Peninsula.

Yağlıdere

Most immigrants live on the East Coast, including New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware.