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Wilmington, Delaware, in 2007 observes the 175th anniversary of its 1832 incorporation as a city by an act of the Delaware General Assembly. During that century and three quarters, hundreds of citizens of Wilmington have served as mayors, council members or in other city offices. This volume is a chronicle of who they were and when they served, commemorating their public spirit and their work on behalf of their fellow citizens, carrying out the often mundane municipal functions that make a city livable. Officials are listed both chronologically, by their dates of service in various offices, and in an alphabetical directory that notes the dates for each office held. ... Read more

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Since William Penn's founding of Philadelphia as a "greene countrie towne," thousands of acres of public gardens and arboretums have spawned in and around the city. Fairmont Park is the largest in any American city; even Philadelphia's zoo is a splendid garden and arboretum. Many gardens in the region were first cultivated by early Quakers and include historic, restored homes dating to the early 1700s. Includes location and detailed site information with common and Latin names of all species photographed and features stunning, beautiful, and artistic full-color photography. ... Read more

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A superb history of Wilmington Delaware
"Wilmington, Delaware: Portrait of an Industrial City, 1830-1910"
by Carol Hoffecker, is an excellent and fascinating history of this mid-sized city during its important years of growth.Along with scholarly research, Hoffecker writes engaging stories about the leading people and events that transformed Wilmington into an important industrial center.Hoffecker describes how changes in social institutions, housing, and the work place affected the lives of common people in Wilmington during this period.

Dr Carol Hoffecker, along with Dr John Monroe, is considered a pre-eminent authority on the history of the state of Delaware. I knew her during the 1970s at the University of Delaware, when she researched and wrote this book. She also served as Chair of the History Department at the University of Delaware. Dr Hoffecker served as one of my advisors in 1976-77, when I researched and wrote my own thesis, "Workers Lives at the DuPont Powder Mills", which received the Craven Award.
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As early as 1829, Antoine Dutot saw potential for a profitable resort industry at the Delaware Water Gap and began construction of the first Kittatinny House overlooking the Delaware River. After the arrival of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1856, other hostelries of various sizes and appointments followed and were soon filled each summer with happy vacationers from New York City and Philadelphia. Residents of surrounding villages on both sides of the Delaware River also shared the seasonal wealth of this natural playground, yet they still managed to make a living during the rest of the year. River Towns of the Delaware Water Gap salutes the grand hotels, their diminutive “little sisters,” and the people who ran them or lived in the gap and its neighboring river towns. ... Read more

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Chapters: Wilmington, Delaware, Delaware City, Delaware, Newark, Delaware, New Castle, Delaware, Arden, Delaware, Ardencroft, Delaware, Ardentown, Delaware. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 64. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Wilmington, Delaware -The area now known as Wilmington was first colonized by settlers from Sweden who in March, 1638, established Fort Christina at the mouth of the Christina River at the area known as "The Rocks", located near the foot of present-day Seventh Street. Fort Christina served as the headquarters for the colony of New Sweden which consisted of, for the most part, the lower Delaware River region (parts of present day Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey), but settled few colonists there. Dr. Timothy Stidham (Swedish:Timen Lulofsson Stiddem) was a prominent citizen and doctor in Wilmington. He was born in 1610, probably in Hammel, Skanderborg, Denmark and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden. He arrived in New Sweden in 1654 and is recorded as the first physician in Delaware. The most important Swedish governor was Colonel Johan Printz, who ruled the colony under Swedish law from 1643 to 1653. He was succeeded by Johan Rising, who upon his arrival in 1654, seized the Dutch post Fort Casimir, located at the site of the present town of New Castle, which was built by the Dutch in 1651. Rising governed New Sweden until the autumn of 1655, when a Dutch fleet under the command of Peter Stuyvesant subjugated the Swedish forts and established the authority of the Colony of New Netherland throughout the area formerly controlled by the Swedes. This marked the end of Swedish rule in North America. Beginning in 1664 British colonization began; after a series of wars between the Dutch and English,the area stabilized under British rule, with strong influences from t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=108930 ... Read more

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Chapters: Cities in Delaware, Towns in Delaware, Villages in Delaware, Dover, Delaware, Wilmington, Delaware, Lewes, Delaware, Delaware City, Delaware, Newark, Delaware, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, New Castle, Delaware, Arden, Delaware, Seaford, Delaware, Ardencroft, Delaware, Ardentown, Delaware, Milford, Delaware, Harrington, Delaware, List of Delaware Municipalities, Owens Station, Delaware, List of Cities in Delaware, Zoar, Delaware. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 102. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Wilmington, Delaware -The area now known as Wilmington was first colonized by settlers from Sweden who in March, 1638, established Fort Christina at the mouth of the Christina River at the area known as "The Rocks", located near the foot of present-day Seventh Street. Fort Christina served as the headquarters for the colony of New Sweden which consisted of, for the most part, the lower Delaware River region (parts of present day Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey), but settled few colonists there. Dr. Timothy Stidham (Swedish:Timen Lulofsson Stiddem) was a prominent citizen and doctor in Wilmington. He was born in 1610, probably in Hammel, Skanderborg, Denmark and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden. He arrived in New Sweden in 1654 and is recorded as the first physician in Delaware. The most important Swedish governor was Colonel Johan Printz, who ruled the colony under Swedish law from 1643 to 1653. He was succeeded by Johan Rising, who upon his arrival in 1654, seized the Dutch post Fort Casimir, located at the site of the present town of New Castle, which was built by the Dutch in 1651. Rising governed New Sweden until the autumn of 1655, when a Dutch fleet under the command of Peter Stuyvesant subjugated the Swedish forts and established the authority of the Colony of New Netherland...http://booksllc.net/?id=108930 ... Read more

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Kapitel: Wilmington, Smyrna, New Castle, Newark, Delaware City, Glasgow, Clayton, Claymont, Arden, Middletown, Bear, Newport, Hockessin, Greenville, Brookside, Odessa, Ardencroft, Townsend, Edgemoor, Elsmere, Ardentown, Pike Creek, Bellefonte, Wilmington Manor, North Star, Talleyville. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Ardencroft is a village in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the village is 274. Ardencroft was founded in 1950 as an outgrowth of Arden and Ardentown with a conceptual lifestyle based on Henry George's Single tax movement and William Morris's Arts and Crafts principles. Ardencroft was the last of seventeen land trusts founded between 1894 and 1950, Ardencroft's tax structure is based on the Single Tax economic philosophy of Henry George. As a result, a person's house is not taxed, only the land it sits on, which is owned in by a charitable trust and managed by three directors. Half the land is woods and open space. Foot paths criss-cross the village. At its founding in 1950, Ardencroft formally encouraged minorities to settle there, actively seeking out families that wanted to live in an integrated setting. The nearby, former Arden School (now the Buzz Ware Village Center)also allowed integration around this time, prior to many of the changes enacted by the Civil Rights movement. Civil rights and suffragist activist, prolific writer, pilot, librarian, lecturer, and educator Pauline A. Young (1900 to 1991) moved into Ardencroft around this time. The outspoken Ms. Young was famous for having joined the NAACP in 1912 at the age of 12, lectured and worked conferences with W.E.B. deBois in the 1930s, and in 1965 marched with Martin Luther King in Alabama. Ardencroft is located at (39.805962, -75.487616). As reported by the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.1 square miles (0.3 km²), all of it land. As of the ce...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Chapters: County Officials in Delaware, Delaware City Councillors, Mayors of Places in Delaware, Christopher A. Coons, Vance A. Funk, Iii, Stephen R. Speed, Theodore "Ted" Blunt, Richard Seymour Rodney, Tom Wagner. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Christopher A. Coons (born September 9, 1963) is an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware and is the County Executive of New Castle County. On February 10, 2010, he declared his candidacy for the Senate seat vacated by Joe Biden. Coons grew up in Hockessin, Delaware, married Annie Lingenfelter, and has three children. They live in Wilmington, Delaware. He graduated from Amherst College in 1985 with a B.A. in Chemistry and Political Science, earning a Truman Scholarship. After college, Coons worked in Washington, D.C. for the Investor Responsibility Research Center, where he wrote a book on South Africa and the U.S. divestment movement. He then worked as a volunteer for the South African Council of Churches and as a relief worker in Kenya, before returning to the U.S. to work for the Coalition for the Homeless in New York. In 1988, Coons worked as issues director for the U.S. Senate race of Delaware Lt. Gov. S.B. Woo. In 1992, he earned his J.D. degree from Yale Law School, and a Master's degree in Ethics from Yale Divinity School. Coons clerked for Judge Jane Richards Roth on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and then worked for the National "I Have a Dream" Foundation in New York. After returning to Delaware in 1996, Coons began his career as in-house counsel for W.L. Gore ... Read more

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Title: Delaware City expands curbside program.(MUNICIPAL RECYCLING)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Recycling Today (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 45Issue: 4Page: 16(1)

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Chapters: Fort Delaware, Delaware City Refinery. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Fort Delaware -In 1794, the French military engineer Pierre Charles LEnfant was surveying for defensive sites. He identified an island that he called Pip Ash "as an ideal site for the defense of the prize of American commerce and culture". The island that L'Enfant called Pip Ash was locally known as Pea Patch island. This island was mostly unaffected by humanity with one exception. Dr. Henry Gale, a New Jersey resident, used Pea Patch as a private hunting ground. Gale was offered $30,000 for the island by the US military, but he refused. The military was determined to get the island, so they appealed to the Delaware state legislature, which seized the island from Dr. Gale on May 27, 1813. Fort Delaware, Delaware by Seth Eastman (1808-1875), painted 1870-1875Construction of a fort on Pea Patch island began sometime before Dec 8, 1817. Chief Engineer Joseph Gardner Swift mentions a fort on the "Pea Patch in Delaware river" among forts that are progressing nicely. A fire destroyed much of the work February 89, 1831. Captain Richard Delafield asked for $10,000 to tear down the remaining structure the following year. The structure was torn down in 1833. Captain Delafield desired to "erect a marvel of military architecture on Pea Patch." The present structure was erected between 1848 and 1859, becoming the largest fort in the United States at the time. During the Civil War, beginning in 1862, the island became a prison for captured Confederates and local Southern sympathizers. They were housed not in the fort itself but in wooden barracks that soon covered much of the island. Most of the Confederates captured at Gettysburg were imprisoned there. By August 1863, there were 1...http://booksllc.net/?id=2195232 ... Read more

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This guide is about communities where you can still let your ten-year-old walk down the street and not worry too much and where the neighborhood tavern can sometimes rival the Cheers bar and clientele. ... Read more