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4 unusual facts about Georgetown, Delaware


Caleb Merrill Wright

He was in private practice in Georgetown, Delaware from 1933 to 1955, also serving as a deputy state attorney general of Delaware from 1935 to 1939 and an attorney to the Delaware State Senate from 1938 to 1939, and to the Delaware General Assembly from 1940 to 1941.

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.

Delmarva Christian High School

Delmarva Christian High School is a Christian high school located in Georgetown, Delaware, the geographic center, and county seat of Sussex County.


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.

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.

1st Delaware Infantry Regiment

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

Baptist Seminary of Kentucky

Georgetown, located off I-75, is the home of the Toyota Motor Plant; Ward Hall built in 1853 and referred to as the finest example of Greek Revival architecture in the south; the Cardome Centre, former monastery building designed for the Sisters of the Visitation in 1898; and St Francis de Sales Mission, the oldest church in the Diocese of Covington built in 1794.

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.

Chaminade Silverswords

Virginia, which featured Ralph Sampson and Rick Carlisle, was the top-ranked team in NCAA Division I basketball entering the game after posting victories against Georgetown (with Patrick Ewing) and Phi Slama Jama of Houston.

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

Colorado Relay

The majority of teams have 10 runners and 2 volunteers plus other support staff (Minimum 5/maximum 12 runners per team) who make their way from Georgetown to Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado with each team member running a certain number of "legs" determined by their teammates (each averages approximately 6 miles).

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 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.

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.

Dodd House

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

Ed McCaffrey

He has two brothers and two sisters: Monica of Georgetown University Women's Basketball, Billy McCaffrey, a former Duke and Vanderbilt college basketball player, Michael and Meghan.

Fort Ellsworth

Over the seven weeks that followed the occupation of northern Virginia, forts were constructed along the banks of the Potomac River and at the approaches to each of the three major bridges (Chain Bridge, Long Bridge, and Aqueduct Bridge) connecting Virginia to Washington and Georgetown.

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.”

Georgetown Tigers

The Georgetown College Tigers are the sports teams of Georgetown College located in Georgetown, Kentucky.

Georgetown, Mississippi

Georgetown is the birthplace of professional football player Dick Bass.

Georgetown, Queensland

Georgetown is one of the real locations mentioned several times in the novel "A Town Like Alice" by Nevil Shute.

Harry Richardson

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

Healy

Healy Hall, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States

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.

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.

Hi-Q

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

James H. Dooley

His father (the original Major) had supported St. Joseph's Orphanage; his brother John attended Georgetown Seminary but died in 1873 before ordination; and his sister Sarah entered the Visitation monastery in Richmond.

John McNutt

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

Lederman

Marty Lederman, Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center

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.

Newburyport Railroad

The first company was incorporated in 1846 and opened a line from Newburyport on the Eastern to Georgetown in 1849, and west to the Boston and Maine Railroad at Bradford in 1851.

Orphan bridge

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

Outerbridge Horsey

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

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.

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.

Providence Stadium

Located along the East Bank Highway the stadium is a ten minute drive from Georgetown's city centre and a 30 minute drive from Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

Richard H. Ellis

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

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.

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.

Thomas Bayard

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

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.

Uriah Forrest

He also served as mayor of the Town of George, now Georgetown, in 1791 when George Washington met with local landowners at his home to negotiate purchase of the land needed to build the new capital city.

USS Peerless

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

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.


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