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.
The building, designed by Philadelphia-based architecture firm Agoos/Lovera, would rise near the city's Delaware River waterfront.
Cape May diamonds are actually pieces of quartz washed down, and worn smooth in the process, from the upper Delaware River.
The rosyside dace is native to parts of the southeastern and eastern United States, including the Delaware River drainage, the Savannah River drainage, and the Ohio River basin.
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.
Two of the six business partners of the ships Blijde Boodschap and Bever which focused on exploration and trade in the Zuidt Rivier or Delaware River, were Thijmen Jacobsz Hinlopen and Samuel Godijn.
Samuel Blommaert secretly tried to secure his interests with the founding of the colony of New Sweden on the Delaware in the south.
The Dutch named the three main rivers of the province the Zuyd Rivier or South River, the Noort Rivier or North River, and the Versche Rivier or Fresh River, and intended to use them to gain access to the interior, to the Native Americans and to the lucrative fur trade.
On August 30, 2007, Nelson's father, Floyd "Pete" Nelson was reported missing after disappearing at his Chester tugboat repair shop located along the docks of the Delaware River at Front Street and Highland Avenue.
The events, which were planned by Captain John André and John Montresor, included a regatta along the Delaware River, accompanied by three musical bands and a 17-gun salute by British warships, a procession, a tournament of jousting knights, and a ball and banquet with fireworks display.
The Onrust was last reported in 1616 as bound to explore the "New River", now known as the Delaware River by Cornelius Hendrickson.
Stillé was one of the four commissaries or magistrates appointed to administer justice among local inhabitants, and thus became a judge of the first court on the banks of the Delaware River.
For over twenty five years, he has been working to restore rivers to their natural state and conserve water for human use including (but not limited to) the Quinebaug River, Fort River, Saugatuck River & Aspetuck River, Eightmile River (Connecticut River), and Delaware River.
The neighborhood is bounded by the Tacony Creek to the northeast, Cumberland Street to the southwest, I-95 and the Delaware River to the southeast, and Aramingo Avenue to the northwest.
Raubsville is an census-designated place in Williams Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, located along Route 611 on the west bank of the Delaware River.
It is hypothesized that more recently, the birds have become threatened as a result of commercial harvesting of horseshoe crabs in the Delaware Bay which began in the early 1990s.
However, their first prize resulted in the capture of household goods from a ship in the Delaware River in September 1718.
Accordingly, he assembled his grenadier company plus an additional four officers, eight NCOs, two drummers, and 150 enlisted men from the Guards Brigade and marched to Province Island on the Delaware River.
Motika is the publisher of Nightboat Books, a literary non-profit publisher based in New York's Upper Delaware River Valley.
The New Sweden Company established a colony on the Delaware River in 1638, naming it New Sweden.
During a summer vacation in 1911, he took part in the rescue of several young women who had fallen into the Delaware River, and thereby contracted malaria.
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The main service the Belvidere and Delaware River Railway provided freight service south along the Delaware River from Phillipsburg, New Jersey to Milford, New Jersey, following a 16 mile riverbank line.
He is probably best known as the owner of the four of erstwhile Barryville–Shohola Bridges over the Delaware River, and as the father of Rear Admiral and Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, Chauncey Thomas, Jr., USN.
The son of Chauncey Thomas, a farmer and entrepreneur, who built four bridges across the Delaware River at Shihola Glen, Pennsylvania, Thomas Jr., graduated from the United States Naval Academy third in the class of 1871.
He proposed a canal across the Delmarva Peninsula to connect the Chester River at modern-day Millington, Maryland, to the Delaware River.
Similar devices planned by Ben Franklin were used in the Delaware River near Philadelphia, in between Fort Mifflin and Fort Mercer.
A local AAA chapter spearheaded a failed effort to have the bridge named after William Penn.
The East Branch of the Delaware River, the waterway impounded to create the reservoir, is a short distance to the northwest.
Finnegan served in succession as Secretary of the Delaware River Navigation Commission under Governor George Earle, administrative assistant to Senator Francis Myers, administrative assistant to former Congressman Mike Bradley, and chair of the Philadelphia County Democratic Executive Committee.
As co-artistic directors, Margolis and Brown have thus far co-authored, directed, and sometimes performed in 16 full-length theatrical productions, as well as numerous site-specific works at such places as the Brooklyn Museum, Coney Island, and the historic John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge on the Delaware River.
The proposed route was part of a larger plan to connect the Delaware River at Deposit to the Ogdensburg–Prescott International Bridge over the Saint Lawrence River by way of as few numbered routes as possible.
Locals, some of which who had been in the area for decades, started comparing the bypass shutdown as another version of the Tocks Island Dam project from 1956–1992, which led to numerous demonstrations to protect the Delaware River.
Past this intersection, the road continues over the Delaware River on the Washington Crossing Bridge into New Jersey, where it intersects Route 29 on the other side of the river and becomes County Route 546 past that intersection.
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The route runs from an intersection with U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Northeast Philadelphia north to an intersection with PA 32 in Washington Crossing near the Washington Crossing Bridge over the Delaware River.
The colonial administrators claimed that they had a deed dating to the 1680s in which the Lenape-Delaware had promised to sell a portion of land beginning between the junction of the Delaware River and Lehigh River (present Easton, Pennsylvania) "as far west as a man could walk in a day and a half." This purchase has become known as the Walking Purchase.
By 1929, with the help of New Jersey state park officials a 43-mile (69 km) section from the Delaware River to High Point along the Kittatinny Ridge was completed.
The Skinners Falls – Milanville Bridge is a bridge spanning the Delaware River between Milanville, Pennsylvania and Skinners Falls, New York in Wayne County, Pennsylvania and Sullivan County, New York.
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.
The West Trenton Railroad Bridge is a concrete arch bridge carrying the CSX and SEPTA West Trenton rail lines across the Delaware River between Lower Makefield Township, Pennsylvania and Ewing Township, New Jersey.