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Commissioned in 1910, the USS Delaware battleship spent most of 1918 escorting convoys and the minelayers that placed a 250-mile barrier in the North Sea Strait between Scotland and Norway in an attempt to deny access to German U-boats during World War I.

first appeared: 10/23/2005

Johnson Field at Wilmington’s Frawley Stadium is named for William "Judy" Johnson, third baseman for the Pittsburgh Crawfords, two-time Negro League All-Star in the 1930s and 1975 inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was born in Snow Hill, Md. (pop. 2,409).

first appeared: 10/9/2005

Valued at more than $100,000, a collection of more than 600 international and domestic dolls wearing native costumes compose the Elsie Williams Doll Collection on the Delaware Technical and Community College campus in Georgetown (pop. 4,643).

first appeared: 9/25/2005

At age 14, Bailey Peyton Key, grandson of Francis Scott Key, composer of the Star Spangled Banner, was one of the youngest Confederate prisoners held at Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island during the Civil War.

first appeared: 9/18/2005

Wide receiver Steve Watson of Wilmington caught 353 football passes during his nine seasons (1979 to 1987) with the Denver Broncos, and he now coaches the Broncos’ wide receivers. He was inducted into the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame in 1993.

first appeared: 9/11/2005

Four historic structures, dating from 1748 to the early 1800s, were moved in 1976 to the 500 block of Market Street in Wilmington to save them from demolition. Known as Willingtown Square, the area was named for Thomas Willing, who in 1731 laid out the village that later became the city of Wilmington. The square is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

first appeared: 9/11/2005

Delino DeShields of Seaford (pop. 6,699) was a high school All-American in baseball and basketball. During his career in major league baseball from 1990 to 2002, he had 463 stolen bases playing for the Montreal Expos, Los Angeles Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles and Chicago Cubs.

first appeared: 8/28/2005

Randy White was co-most valuable player of Super Bowl XII between the Dallas Cowboys and the Denver Broncos in 1978. Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1994, White played football at Thomas McKean High School in Wilmington and at the University of Maryland.

first appeared: 8/14/2005

In one of the suffrage movement’s first acts of militancy, Wilmington-born Mabel Vernon interrupted President Woodrow Wilson during a 1916 labor gathering to ask why he opposed the suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She was quickly escorted from the room. Vernon and her fellow suffragists later organized pickets of the White House.

first appeared: 7/31/2005

Described by Fort Delaware prisoners as "an angel of mercy," Julia Jefferson of New Castle (pop. 4,863) provided care to Confederate captives and organized donations of food and clothing during the Civil War. She was the only woman allowed free access to the Pea Patch Island fortress.

first appeared: 7/17/2005

The HMB DeBraak, a British brig-sloop that sank off Cape Henlopen during a 1798 storm, was found on the bottom of Delaware Bay in 1984. The Zwaanendael Museum in Lewes (pop. 2,932) displays many of the 20,000 artifacts salvaged from the ship.

first appeared: 6/19/2005

Goldey-Beacom College, a coeducational business college in Wilmington, traces its origins to two schools—one founded by H.S. Goldey in 1886 and the other by W.H. Beacom in 1900—that merged in 1951.

first appeared: 6/5/2005

A fire-and-brimstone Presbyterian preacher from Virginia, the Rev. Isaac Handy was imprisoned at Fort Delaware, on Pea Patch Island south of New Castle (pop. 4,862) in the Delaware River, during the Civil War for making disparaging remarks about the U.S. flag.

first appeared: 5/22/2005

Although the First State has no national parks within its borders, recreation seekers have plenty of other outdoor facilities to choose from, including 14 state parks in Delaware’s three counties.

first appeared: 5/8/2005

Frank Masley of Newark (pop. 28,547) was a member of the 1980, 1984 and 1988 U.S. Olympic luge teams and a six-time national singles champion in the sled-racing sport.

first appeared: 4/24/2005

More than 78 million pounds of watermelon were grown in Delaware in 2003, ranking the state 11th in the nation for watermelon production.

first appeared: 4/10/2005

The Dutch West India Company established the state’s first European colony, Swaanendael (Swan Valley), in 1631 on the site of present-day Lewes (pop. 2,932). The Zwaanendael Museum, a replica of a town hall in Hoorn, Holland, was constructed 300 years later to commemorate the settlement’s founding.

first appeared: 3/27/2005

When J.C. Penney’s store opened in Milford (pop. 6,732) in 1929, the company had stores in all 48 states.

first appeared: 3/13/2005

The 1890s Anna Hazard House is one of a few small wooden structures remaining in Rehoboth Beach (pop. 1,495) from the town’s days as a religious camp meeting site.

first appeared: 2/27/2005

In 1832, Dr. Henry Bronson, a professor at Yale Medical School in New Haven, became the first expert in the treatment of Asiatic cholera, an acute intestinal infection caused by ingesting contaminated water or food.—The Courtyard Newark, a 126-room Marriott hotel that opened in November on the University of Delaware campus in Newark (pop. 28,547), serves as a working laboratory for students taking classes in hotel, restaurant and institutional management.

first appeared: 2/13/2005

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