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Posted by Your Guide on April 26, 2006 8:52 PM

Since Delaware only has three counties, and since each of them offer a little different flavor, every effort should be made to visit each of them. The capital city of Dover is not to be missed, nor is Wilmington. The beaches in the southernmost county are another of Delaware’s key places to visit, and the historical landmarks and the parks in the state would perfectly round out the trip. If one has at least a week to spare for seeing Delaware, the state is not likely to disappoint. And then of course there is the tax-free shopping, which is not a thing to be missed either if one can help it.

In Wilmington:
Eleutherian Mills, is the site of the 1802 works that revolutionized powder manufacturing and became the E.I DuPont industry. The site includes DuPont’s residence, offices and mills.

Fort Christina was the site of the first Swedish military outpost, circa 1638 in the Delaware Valley, which became the center of the first Swedish settlement in North America and its trading and commercial center. It fell into disrepair after the English conquest in 1664 and except for a few rocks jutting into the river, which served as a landing site, the last vestiges of the fort have disappeared.

From 1793 to 1812, Lombardy Hall served as the home of Gunning Bedford, Jr., a delegate from Delaware to the Continental Congress and the Annapolis Convention, and a signer of the U.S. Constitution in 1787.

Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church is the oldest surviving building of a Delaware Valley Swedish congregation. The church is built on the site of the Fort Christina settlement’s first burial ground and was constructed after the fall of New Sweden, but services were held in Swedish even into the eighteenth century. It has housed an Episcopal parish since 1791.

In New Castle:
New Castle was founded by Peter Stuyvesant in 1651 as the seat of the New Netherlands government, and served as the colonial capital of Delaware until 1766. The Historic District offers a broad range of architectural styles to view, which remained essentially unchanged from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

New Castle Courthouse was the place that the Assembly of the Three Lower Counties (Delaware) met from 1704 until May 1777. The first State legislature under the newly framed state constitution met here on October 28, 1776.



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