deVries Monument

Erected

By The

State of Delaware

To Commemorate The Settlement

On This Spot, Of The First

Dutch Colony, Under De Vries,

A.D. 1631.

Here was the craddle of a state.

"That Delaware exists as a separate

Commonwealth is due to this colony !"

          Bancroft

Marker is on Pilottown Road (Front Street), on the right when traveling north.

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