Delaware has 2 million chickens spread out across all three counties of the second smallest state. As a result of Delaware ranking third most bike-friendly, you might bike past a field and say look at all those chickens! The Diamond State is a jewel of a place to live with , people calling it home. Scroll to learn more Delaware state facts and explore the rest of the website to find out how you can be a part of Delaware history!
Delaware adopted the current state flag on July 24, The state seal is enclosed in a buff diamond on a colonial blue background. Constitution and became the first state. Delaware declared its independence from Great Britain on June 15, and thereby also became independent of Pennsylvania with which it had been connected since Delaware was the first to ratify the U. Delaware has 3 counties: New Castle northern Delaware , Kent center of Delaware, 11 miles south of Dover , and Sussex downstate, the largest county, measuring square miles.
The state of Delaware takes its name from the river and bay. First State: first to ratify the Constitution. It was so popular that Delaware Soldiers brought their own Blue Hens with them during their stay in the army. Peach State: the first state to produce peaches commercially. Adopted on May 9, Adopted June 24, and indigenous to Delaware.
Found throughout the state along coastal areas and by marshes. Adopted April 25, , after state schoolchildren petitioned the General Assembly. Adopted on May 1, During the late nineteenth century until the s, Sussex County became the leading supplier of holly, used for Christmas decorations and wreaths. View Our Online Catalog Explore. Sign up to receive the lastest updates:. Most state government operations are located in Dover, the capital.
But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. One of the original 13 colonies, Maryland lies at the center of the Eastern Seaboard, amid the great commercial and population complex that stretches from Maine to Virginia.
Its small size belies the great diversity of its landscapes and ways of life that they foster, from the Part of the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase, Arkansas became a separate territory in and achieved statehood in A slave state, Arkansas became the ninth state to secede from the union and join the Confederate States of America. Today Arkansas ranks 27th among Tennessee became the 16th state of the union in It is just miles wide, but stretches miles from the Appalachian Mountains boundary with North Carolina in the east to the Mississippi River borders with Missouri and Arkansas in the west.
One of the original 13 colonies, Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn as a haven for his fellow Quakers. The first native New Yorkers were the Lenape, an Algonquin people who hunted, fished and farmed in the area between the Delaware and Hudson rivers.
In a short time the area within the fort was not large enough to accommodate all the settlers so that a town, named New Amstel now New Castle , was laid out. They soon reported to the proprietor that the new province would be landlocked if the colonies on either side of the Delaware River or Bay were hostile.
Jones, and Deale. On this occasion, the colonists subscribed an oath of allegiance to the new proprietor, and the first general assembly was held in the colony. The following year the three Lower Counties were annexed to the Province of Pennsylvania as territories with full privileges under Penn's famous "Frame of Government. Also in this year, the counties of St.
Jones and Deale were renamed Kent and Sussex Counties respectively. After , a long dispute ensued between William Penn and Lord Baltimore of the Province of Maryland as to the exact dominion controlled by Penn on the lower Delaware. The dispute continued between the heirs of Baltimore and Penn until almost the end of the colonial period.
In at the time of the Declaration of Independence, Delaware not only declared itself free from the British Empire, but also established a state government entirely separate from Pennsylvania. Delaware's boundaries were surveyed in by the noted English scientists, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon. With the advent to the Revolution nearly 4, men enlisted for service from the small state.
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