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Dec42022
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The perils of morocco leather: a tale

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Young Alfred P. Stevenson, Esq., must’ve thought he’d be set for life.  His uncle, the ‘John’ of John G. Baker Company, ushered him straight out of law school into a job at the family firm. Baker’s Wilmington, DE company, founded in 1867, was young and on a meteoric rise in the morocco leather finishing industry. …

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Nov172022
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Delaware’s only whaling venture

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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…

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Nov32022

Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match

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It is now and has been for a long time America’s leading producer of matches, producing some twelve billion a year. But do you know why Diamond matches are called that? In 1853, Edward Tatnall opened a small sulfur match factory along Wilmington, DE’s Brandywine Creek. The sulfur match of that era was incredibly unstable…

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Dave Tabler is a Delaware-focused author using his University of Maryland degrees in art history and photojournalism to examine and explore the first state's rich history and publish works of his findings. He also manages AppalachianHistory.net
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