Hispanic Surge Transforms Traditional Sussex County Landscape
A significant increase in Sussex County’s Hispanic population has led to transformative changes in the community, legal landscape, and policy discussions.
A significant increase in Sussex County’s Hispanic population has led to transformative changes in the community, legal landscape, and policy discussions.
Delaware’s 20th-century sweet potato boom reveals growth, innovation, and decline, reflecting broader American agricultural trends.
Today he’s recognized as one of the founders of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which later became NASA. His numerous patents included one for a method of greatly extending the range of long distance… Read More »A greenhorn outsmarts a mule
In February 1838, William Huffington combined his interests in politics and literature by becoming the proprietor and editor of the first monthly magazine in Delaware, The Delaware Register and Farmers’ Magazine. The editor of The… Read More »1838. First magazine in Delaware publishes
The ‘Delaware peach’ ruled eastern markets from about 1840 till the turn of the 20th century. What about the ‘Georgia peach,’ you ask? Georgia horticulturists did indeed start a determined effort in the 1850s to… Read More »Delaware’s First Peach Boom