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Dover Downs, home of NASCAR and harness racing in the town of Dover (pop. 32,135), has a reserved seating capacity of 122,000.

first appeared: 3/17/2002

In Delaware, owners of non-native snakes must pay $25 to obtain an “exotic pet” license from the state.

first appeared: 3/10/2002

The first volunteer firefighting company in the state was organized in Wilmington in 1775 under the name of Friendship.

first appeared: 3/3/2002

The trademark of the Victor Talking Machine Co., founded in Dover (pop. 32,135) in 1901, is a dog tilting his head as he listens to “his master’s voice” through the horn on the first Victrola phonograph.

first appeared: 2/24/2002

The Wilmington Chronicle, first published in 1760, was Delaware’s first newspaper.

first appeared: 2/17/2002

Dupont Co. scientist Wallace H. Carothers discovered nylon in the 1930s. Before the Delaware-based company introduced this new fabric to the world, women’s stockings were made of silk and cotton.

first appeared: 2/10/2002

With more than 800,000 peach trees, Delaware’s reputation as the “Peach State” resulted in the peach blossom becoming the state flower in 1895.

first appeared: 2/3/2002

With one of the largest shipside cold-storage facilities on the continent, Wilmington has become the United States’ leading port for fresh fruit and produce imports.

first appeared: 1/27/2002

Several towns sit snugly against the Delaware/Maryland border—a situation reflected in some of their names. In Maryland, there’s Marydel (pop. 147) and, in Delaware, there’s Delmar (pop. 1,407).

first appeared: 1/20/2002

Wilmington-born John P. Marquand (1893–1960) wrote a fictional series about a Japanese detective, Mr. Moto, which ran in the Saturday Evening Post. He also wrote a novel, The Late George Apley (1937), about a conservative Bostonian, which won him the Pulitzer Prize.

first appeared: 1/13/2002

The first log cabins in America were built by Swedish and Finnish colonists at Fort Christina, now Wilmington, in 1639.

first appeared: 1/6/2002

Only one casualty resulted from the British naval bombardment of Lewes (pop. 2,932) in the War of 1812—a chicken.

first appeared: 12/30/2001

Born in Wilmington, astronaut Nancy J. Currie is a veteran of three space flights. Among her many assignments, she was a mission specialist in 1998 for the first International Space Station assembly mission.

first appeared: 12/23/2001

During the Civil War, about 13,000 Delaware residents fought with the Union and about 500 with the Confederacy.

first appeared: 12/16/2001

According to state foresters, the largest tree in Delaware is a cypress, whose trunk is 8 feet wide. It is located near Trap Pond State Park in Sussex County.

first appeared: 12/9/2001

Before the National Bank Act of 1863 regulated the printing of money by state banks, the Bank of Delaware issued $3 bills.

first appeared: 12/2/2001

An ominous warning was printed on the back of Delaware’s shilling in Colonial days—“To counterfeit is death.”

first appeared: 11/25/2001

Delaware resident Mary Ann Shad Cary (1829-1892) was the first African-American woman to practice law in the United States and the first in North America to edit a newspaper, an anti-slavery publication, The Provincial Freedman.

first appeared: 11/18/2001

Ukrainian woman figure skater Aksana Baiul, who trained at University of Delaware ice arenas, won an Olympic gold medal for her country in 1994.

first appeared: 11/11/2001

The Woodland Ferry across the Nanticoke River near Seaford (pop. 6,699), established in 1793, is the last cable-operated ferry in the state.

first appeared: 11/4/2001

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