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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.
State line separating Delaware from Maryland and Pennsylvania: Multiple: Extends into bordering counties in eastern Maryland and southeastern Pennsylvania. 49: Delaware State Museum Buildings: Delaware State Museum Buildings: February 1, 1972 : 316 S. Governors Ave.
John Woolman attended Quaker meeting at Little Creek in late summer 1748 during a visit to the Southern Counties of Delaware.. The Cherbourg Round Barn, Little Creek Hundred Rural Historic District, Little Creek Methodist Church, Old Stone Tavern, Port Mahon Lighthouse, Elizabeth Stubbs House, and Jonathan Woodley House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The lower course of the river southeast of Dover is surrounded by brackish marshes and salt marshes, open water habitats, and wetlands.A portion of the lower river, along with nearby Blackbird Creek, have received federal protection as the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve, part of the National Estuarine Research Reserve system.
Marshyhope Creek is a 37.0-mile-long (59.5 km) [8] tributary of the Nanticoke River on the Delmarva Peninsula.It rises in Kent County, Delaware, and runs through Caroline County, Maryland, and Dorchester County, Maryland.
Delaware: County: Kent: City: Dover Camden Wyoming: Physical characteristics; Source: divide between Isaac Branch and Cahoon Branch • location: about 1 mile southeast of Pearsons Corner, Delaware • coordinates: 1] • elevation: 67 ft (20 m) [2] Mouth: St. Jones River
A.D. Byles’ Map of Kent County, Delaware (1859), which identifies the building as a “store” provides the earliest evidence of the building's use. A deed from the 1875 sale of the corner lot from William Pearson to Abraham Pearson described the property as containing “several improvements now enjoyed by the said John Pearson as tenant ...
What is now US 9 in Delaware was originally built as a state highway during the 1920s and designated by 1936 as Delaware Route 28 (DE 28) between Laurel and Georgetown and a part of DE 18 between Georgetown and Lewes. US 9 was extended to Delaware from New Jersey by way of the Cape May–Lewes Ferry in 1974, replacing all of DE 28 and the ...