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News – DelmarvaThe Delmarva Peninsula occupies portions of three states. It’s named is formed from letters from Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. The Fall Line, the line that separates the crystalline rocks of the Piedmont from the unconsolidated sediments of the Coastal Plain passes through the cities of Newark and Wilmington. This Fall Line is the actual...
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Public Transportation is nearly non-existent on the Delmarva Peninsula. People and companies depend of the roads and highways to move throughout the region.
Other than I 95 and a few short interstate routes in around the City of Wilmington in Northern New Castle County, there isn’t an Interstate Highway on Delmarva. Delmarva’s Highways...
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As another page of the calendar turns moving from August into September, from Summer to Autumn, one starts to realize that the year is nearly two thirds over.
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It was on August 24, 1682 James, Duke of York granted to William Penn "all that land on the Delaware River and Bay beginning twelve miles south of the town of Newcastle otherwise called Delaware, and extending south to the Whorekills, otherwise called Capin Lopin, on yearly payment of one rose to the Duke...
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The Dutch’s Swaanendael or Zwaanendael Colony of thirty-two first settled in Southern Delaware near Lewes in 1631. It was short lived since a local tribe of Lenni Lenape killed all members of the colony sometime in 1632. Lewes is located on the Atlantic Ocean meets the Delaware Bay and is pronounced ‘Lewis’. Cape Henlopen...
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