To my mind, it’s the perfect American Civil War border state story. Take a look at this 1970 aerial photo of Georgetown, DE’s Public Square and Circle. The two circled buildings are the Brick Hotel (bottom) and the site of the Eagle Hotel (right side). “One local folk tale concerning the [Brick],” says its National…
The Wilmington Whaling Company (1833-1846) was the only venture of its kind ever launched in Delaware, and one of the very few outside New England. The company was founded in late 1833 with a capital stock of $100,000. In May 1934 Captain Richard Weeden headed out from Wilmington on the Ceres, “completely furnished for a…
The I. O. H. is still progressing North and South, in East and West; None of nature’s laws transgressing, Honesty within our breast. Members from Wilmington, to Harrington, to Seaford began their meetings for four decades reciting in unison the Opening Ode. The original Order of Heptasophs (later the IMPROVED Order of Heptasophs, or I.O.H.)…
Close your eyes, and picture for a moment the conestoga wagon in American history. What did you conjure up? The Oregon Trail? Vast lines of ‘prairie schooners’ crossing what would become Kansas or Nebraska? I was startled to encounter this conestoga wagon in a Delaware museum—built in Delaware, and used in Delaware. If you’ve ever…
