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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ6A_dover_Dover-DE.html
County seat since 1680. William Penn in 1683 ordered Town site laid out and named Dover. Plotted in 1717. Temporary capitol in 1777 and permanent capitol since 1779. Federal Constitution ratified here in 1787, making Delaware first State in Union.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ68_the-capitol-theater_Dover-DE.html
In 1904, the Dover Opera House opened at this location. The theater was built with funds from a public subscription, and included a stage that was used for a variety of purposes including vaudeville, photoplays, magic lantern shows, and in later y…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ66_wesley-united-methodist-church_Dover-DE.html
The origin of this congregation can be traced to the establishment of a Methodist society in Dover in 1778. Land on North Street was obtained in 1782, and a brick chapel was completed there in 1784. Bishops Francis Asbury and Richard Whatcoat, pio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ65_thomas-stevenson-house_Dover-DE.html
The brick house was built in 1846. The structures to the rear consist of three separate buildings dating from 1804. They are the original tenement and two outbuildings. The first was a summer kitchen and the latter, Sara Stevenson's (1850) two roo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ64_loockerman-house_Dover-DE.html
This property has beenplaced on theNational Registerof Historic Placesby the United StatesDepartment of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ63_john-bell-house_Dover-DE.html
The 18th-century front section of this structure is the oldest surviving wood building in Dover. It is being restored to serve as an interpretive center for the First State heritage Park.The 20th-century rear additions will be removed to return th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ62_timothy-hanson-house_Dover-DE.html
The Timothy Hanson House stood on this site until it was relocated in 2006. The front of the building, commissioned by the Delaware Association of REALTORS, for its headquarters in 2006, is a replica of the structure known as the Hanson house. The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ5Z_bishop-richard-allen_Dover-DE.html
Richard Allen founded and became the first Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816. Born into slavery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 14, 1760, Allen and his family were sold to a family near Dover in 1772. While there,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ5K_the-golden-fleece-tavern_Dover-DE.html
This was the site of the Golden Fleece Tavern, scene of some of the most important and dramatic events in Delaware history. Built in the 1730s, the Golden Fleece was a center for community and government activities. It was a place of great importa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ5J_in-the-council-chamber-of-elizabeth-battells-golden-fleece-tavern_Dover-DE.html
On this site, Delaware became the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. December 7, 1787.We, the deputies of the people of the Delaware state, in Convention met, having taken in our serious consideration the Federal Constitu…