Today when one thinks of Eastern Neck Island in Kent County, MD it’s as a National Wildlife Refuge. In the 1650’s when Maryland Colony was only a couple of decades old, Major Joseph Wickes obtained land grants on Eastern Neck Island. It was there that he built his mansion, Wickliffe. The Island served as County […]
Continue ReadingDue to current coronavirus restrictions the Delaware Public Archives will be presenting its August First Saturday program in an online format only. Titled “Left Newport … Before Daylight and March’d to Chads Ford”: The Landscape of Conflict before the Battle of Brandywine, 1777, the program focuses on archaeology found at the site of the Revolutionary War Battle of Brandywine. […]
Continue ReadingHow much do you actually know about what happened on and around July 4, 1776? We all know that July 4th is the birthday of the United States, but is it really? Events that lead up to the birth of the United States started in 1774 when 56 representatives from 12 of the British Colonies […]
Continue ReadingMaryland formally recognizes March 25th, as the day of its founding. It was on that day in 1634 that the first settlers sent by Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore established the first settlement in land chartered to the Calvert’s. Mathias de Sousa, listed in records as a Mulatto, was of probable African and Portuguese descent. […]
Continue ReadingDover DE – The Delaware Public Archives will be having a free presentation on Saturday March 7, 2020 on “Delaware’s Struggle for Women’s Right to Vote”. The presenters are Dr. Anne Boylan and Emily Green. During the spring of 1920, all political eyes were on Delaware. The General Assembly was meeting in special session to […]
Continue ReadingThe back room of the Book Plate in Chestertown was full to listen to visiting professor Ezra Greenspan, author of “William Wells Brown: An African American Life”, read from his work-in-progress biography on Frederick Douglass’ family as a part of the Chestertown Art Crawl on the afternoon of February 22, 2020. Usually when an author […]
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