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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25CV_cow-marsh-primitive-baptist-church_DE.html
Organized on July 18, 1781, the "Baptist Church at Mount Moriah" also called Cow Marsh Baptist Church, is the fourth Primitive Baptist congregation formally constituted in Delaware. For many years members met in area homes. In 1793, Job Meredith c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25CU_gov-george-truitt-home_Camden-DE.html
Gov. George
Truitt Home
Circa 1750
National
Register of
Historic
Places
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W99_town-of-bowers-historical_Frederica-DE.html
The Town of Bowers, Incorporated March 9, 1907, was established as an early settlement along the Delaware Bay. Named Whitwell's Delight in 1675, the town was renamed Bowers in 1734. Bowers is nestled between the mouths of the St. Jones and Murderk…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S0K_annie-jump-cannon_Dover-DE.html
Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941), a prominent astronomer who pioneered stellar classification, observed her first stars from the roof of this house. Cannon, who was legally deaf, graduated valedictorian from Wilmington Conference Academy, now Wesley …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S0J_eden-hill-farm_Dover-DE.html
In 1680, a large tract of land called "Brothers Portion" was warranted to John and Richard Walker. In 1695, 200 acres of the parcel were purchased to create the town of Dover. When the town plot was completed in 1718, John Mifflin purchased 69 acr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S0I_caesar-rodney-school-district_Wyoming-DE.html
State Consolidated District No. 1 was authorized and created on July 1, 1915. Seven months later on February 28, 1916, voters of the district approved the request of the State Board of Education by a vote of 52 to 1 to bond together schools in the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I23_the-st-jones-river-why-the-mansion-faces-south_Dover-DE.html
The St. Jones River, a major Delaware navigable waterway, is situated south of the John Dickinson Plantation. The river connects the Delaware Bay to the inland city of Dover. Between 1760 and 1808, John Dickinson owned six farms that bordered the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FO9_byfield_Dover-DE.html
Near this site stood the boyhood home of Caesar Rodney, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Brigadier General of the State's militia (1775-1778), and President (Governor) of Delaware (1778-1781). Byfield was originally settled in the early …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EP5_west-dover-hundred_Marydel-DE.html
Originally part of St. Jones Hundred, renamed Dover Hundred 1823, the boundaries being Little Creek on the north and St. Jones Creek on the south, extending from Delaware River to Maryland Line. Dover Hundred was divided 1877 into two Hundreds, ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EI4_this-sapling_Marydel-DE.html
This sapling from the over 400 year old oak tree (Quercus alba) at Wye Mills, MD Planted April 1976