National Historic Landmark - Windover Archaeological Site

This small, isolated peat deposit contains artifacts and human burials dating to the Early Archaic period. It represents one of the largest collections of human skeletal material from its time period and one of the largest collections of fiber arts ...

Dover Light Infantry

Kent County, Delaware Militia

The Light Infantry Company of Dover, a part of the 1st Battalion of Kent County, mustered in on 2 April

1776. Each militia volunteer was uniformly armed,

equipped, and wore a standard military coat of green

faced with red lapels, ...

Dover

County seat since 1680. William Penn in 1683 ordered Town site laid out and named Dover. Plotted in 1717. Temporary capitol in 1777 and permanent capitol since 1779. Federal Constitution ratified here in 1787, making Delaware first State in Union. ...

Site of Dover's First Methodist Church

In 1778, a Methodist Society was organized in Dover by Reverend Freeborn Garrettson. Desiring a permanent place of worship, members acquired a one-half acre lot at this location from Vincent Loockerman in 1782. Future Delaware Governor Richard Bassett contributed toward ...

Former Site of ILC Dover

Makers of the Apollo Moonsuit

In 1947 the International Latex Corporation established a specialty products division and chose this site for its location. The company’s rise to prominence as a supplier of aeronautic and aerospace equipment began in 1952 when it ...

Dover

County seat since 1680. William Penn in 1683 ordered Town site laid out and named Dover. Plotted in 1717. Temporary capitol in 1777 and permanent capitol since 1779. Federal Constitution ratified here in 1787, making Delaware first State in Union. ...

The Dover Patrol

To the glory of God

and in everlasting

remembrance of

The Dover Patrol

1914 – 1919

They died that we might live.

May we be

worthy of their sacrifice.

West Side of Monument:

This monument

to the

Dover Patrol

erected ...

Dover Hotel

Surrender House

Built between 1851 and 1853, this hotel accommodated riverboat travelers before and after the Civil War. Confederate General Buckner and his staff used the hotel as their headquarters during the battle. After Buckner accepted what he called Grant's "ungenerous ...

The Iron Works at Andover

Purchased from a large tract of land belonging to William Penn, William Allen and Joseph Turner started their iron works here in 1760. Slaves and indentured servants were employed to extract and process iron ore to produce fine grade iron. ...

Village of Dover

Beginning in 1844, nearly 700 settlers were brought into this area by the British Temperance & Emigration Society, organized the previous year in Liverpool, England. By 1850 Dover boasted a hotel, post office, cooper, blacksmith, shoemaker, wagon shop and stores. ...