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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX2I_william-c-jason-comprehensive-high-school_Georgetown-DE.html
Named after the first African-American president of Delaware State College, the school opened in October 1950. Funds were provided in the will of H. Fletcher Brown a local philanthropist, and by the State General Assembly. Initially Jason High Sch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX2H_wesley-united-methodist_Georgetown-DE.html
This congregation's beginnings can be traced to a visit from Methodist pioneer Francis Asbury to a gathering of farm families at the home of Abraham Harris on September 24, 1779. A prominent local landowner, Mr. Harris later conveyed a substantial…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX2G_town-of-millsboro_Millsboro-DE.html
For countless centuries, this was an important meeting place for the Native American residents of the Delmarva Peninsula. In 1792, the state legislature authorized the construction of a mill dam "across the head of the waters of Indian River near …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX2F_providence-united-methodist-church_Georgetown-DE.html
In 1865 the Maryland Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church established a "mission" or charge circuit in Sussex County. At the time local members of that faith were meeting nearby in Rogers School. Services were held in the schoolhouse unti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX2E_prospect-a-m-e-church_Georgetown-DE.html
The roots of African-American Methodism in this community can be traced to the organization of a black "class" within the local Methodist society in the 1790's. By the 1830's a group of residents had affiliated themselves with Bishop Richard Allen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX2C_gumboro-school_Millsboro-DE.html
In 1919 the Delaware General Assembly enacted legislation to reform the state's system of pubic education. Through the efforts of P.S. DuPont and the Delaware School Auxiliary Association, a program to replace many of the state's overcrowded and o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX2B_gumboro-united-methodist-church_Millsboro-DE.html
Gumboro United Methodist Church traces its roots from the post Civil War era when a group of local citizens organized under the name of Union Methodist Episcopal Church. In the early 1870s the Church purchased the structure used by the Gumboro Met…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX2A_grace-united-methodist-church_Georgetown-DE.html
In the spring of 1891, Rev. Louis A. Bennett was directed to establish a Methodist Protestant Church inGeorgetown. His efforts were successful, and a frame church was completed the following year on the northwest corner of East Market and King Str…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX29_ancient-paths_Millsboro-DE.html
In the ancient past Delaware was crossed by a network of Paths first forged by large animals and herds of buffalo migrating along the coast searching for food and salt deposits. The first settlers in this first state were The Nanticoke (Tidewater)…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX28_st-pauls-protestant-episcopal-church_Georgetown-DE.html
Incorporated on June 21, 1794, St. Paul's P.E. Church is the oldest organized church in Georgetown. Prior to completion of the first church building, services were held in the Sussex County Courthouse. In 1805, a special lottery sanctioned by the …
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