The Bombardment of Lewes

In March of 1813, the Royal Navy established a blockade of the Delaware Bay and River. The British squadron, under the command of Commodore John P. Beresford, RN, took up stations off Lewes and the Delaware Capes, and began to ...

Fort Washington

Constructed November 1775 by the

Continental Army under

General George Washington

This fort was used during the

Siege of Boston

and helped force its

evacuation by the British

Marker is on Waverly Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy ...

Milford

Town laid out by Joseph Oliver 1787. Village was located on tract then called "Saw-Mill Range". Named Milford from fording place near mill-dam erected by Rev. Sydenham Thorne across Mispillion Creek, 1787. First incorporated 1807. Old town in Kent County, ...

The De Vries Monument

Commemorates the establishment of the

first permanent European presence on

the Delaware Bay

1631

In 1631, a group of settlers under David

Pietersz de Vries landed near this spot

to form a whale hunting station and

agricultural settlement. The settlers

of ...

The Trustees' Garden

At this site was located the first public agricultural experimental garden in America. From this garden was disseminated the upland cotton which later comprised the greater part of the world`s cotton commerce. Here were propagated and from this garden distributed, ...

St. Peter's Episcopal Church

In 1680, the Justices of the County petitioned Governor Edmond Andros for the right to grant lands. Under this authority, a lot of ground at this location was reserved for “publick use.” Many of the settlers who came to this ...

Butts Hill Fort

These fortifications erected by the British 1777 were occupied by the Americans 1778, becoming the island base of the Continental Army under General Sullivan in the Battle of Rhode Island.

They are now consecrated to the immortal memory of those brave ...

Florence State Teachers College

Oldest state~supported teacher college south of Ohio R.

1830 ~opened as LaGrange College (Methodist) at nearby Leighton.

First charted college in state.

1855 ~ moved here and re~named

Florence Wesleyan University.

Flourished untiled closed by war 1865.

1872~deeded to State by church;

became ...

St. Clair Hollow

Named in honor of Gen. Arthur St. Clair.

The source of this hollow is a large spring two miles south, where Gen. St. Clair, in a log cabin, spent his last days.

He was, A Major General in the American Revolution.

President ...

St. John The Baptist Episcopal Church

With expansion of settlement away from coastal areas in the early 18th century, there was a growing need for houses of worship to be located nearer to the homes of the settlers. In the spring of 1728, a frame chapel ...