Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Dover (/ ˈ d oʊ v ər / DOH-vər) is the capital and the second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Delaware. [3] It is also the county seat of Kent County and the principal city of the Dover metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Kent County and is part of the Philadelphia–Wilmington–Camden, PA–NJ–DE–MD, combined statistical area.
The Government of Delaware encompasses the administrative structure of the US state of Delaware as established by its 1897 constitution. Analogously to the US federal government , it is composed of three branches: executive , legislative , and judicial .
Delaware is divided into three counties and contains 57 incorporated places consisting of cities, towns, and villages. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Of these, there are 10 cities, 3 villages, and 44 towns. As of 2020, the largest municipality by population in Delaware is Wilmington with 70,898 residents, while the largest by area is Dover which spans 23.668 sq ...
Twelve City Council candidates running for office debated the future of Dover before voters on Tuesday night, one week before the Nov. 7 election.
DOVER — Four of six Dover wards have competitive City Council matchups in the Nov. 7 election, which will include a pool of at-large City Council candidates in addition to uncontested mayoral ...
DOVER ‒ A former Dover police officer has been appointed as the city's new safety director.. Mayor Shane Gunnoe made the announcement last week that Robert W. Everett has been named to the post ...
The town of Dover, named after the town of Dover in England's Kent, was finally laid out in 1717, in what was then known as the Lower Counties. It was designated as the capital of Delaware in 1777. In 1787 Delaware was first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution, and became "the First State." Through much of the late 18th century, the economy ...
The original capitol of Delaware was the State House (now known as the Old State House), located on The Green in Dover. It was commissioned originally by Kent County as the Kent County Court House, and was constructed from 1787 to 1791, when it became the State House. Kent County and the state government shared the building until 1873, when the ...