"Make 'Home Place' Your Place for the Holidays"
John Dickinson Plantation's Holiday Display,
December 4, 2007-January 5, 2008
(Dover, Delaware - November 1, 2007) Dover's historic John Dickinson Plantation will be alive with the sights and scents of traditional holiday fare from December 4, 2007-January 5, 2008 as part of the display, "Make 'Home Place' Your Place for the Holidays." Featuring decorative recreations of foods prepared according to authentic 18th Century recipes, the display will include the following holiday specialties: kisses, apple cake, herb tarts, lemon drops, syllabub, moon and stars in jelly, dried apple and cranberry tarts, and iced jellies. The centerpiece of the display will be a traditionally prepared ham pie and hen's nest.
Located at 340 Kitts Hummock Road in Dover, Delaware, the plantation is the boyhood home and country estate of John Dickinson, "Penman of the Revolution" and one of Delaware's signers of the United States Constitution.
About the mansion house...
The mansion house at the John Dickinson Plantation, also known as Poplar Hall, was built in 1740 for Samuel Dickinson (father of John Dickinson). John Dickinson spent his boyhood years here and later, after inheriting the property from his father, utilized the plantation as his country estate in addition to his city homes in Philadelphia, and later, Wilmington.
About John Dickinson (1732-1808)...
John Dickinson, born in Talbot County, Maryland on November 8, 1732; moved with his parents in 1740 to Dover, Delaware where he studied under a private teacher; studied law in Philadelphia and at the Middle Temple in London; was admitted to the bar in 1757 and commenced practice in Philadelphia; member of the Assembly of "Lower Counties," as the State of Delaware was then called, in 1760; member of the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1762 and 1764; delegate to the Stamp Act Congress in 1765; member from Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress 1774-1776 and from Delaware in 1779; brigadier general of Pennsylvania Militia; President of the State of Delaware in 1781; returned to Philadelphia and served as President of Pennsylvania 1782-1785; returned to Delaware; was a member of the Federal convention of 1787 which framed the constitution and was one of the signers from Delaware; died in Wilmington, Delaware, on February 14, 1808; interment in Wilmington Friends Meetinghouse Burial Ground.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Date: December 4, 2007-January 5, 2008, 2007
Location: John Dickinson Plantation
340 Kitts Hummock Rd.
Dover, Delaware 19901
Telephone: (302) 739-3277
Hours of operation: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.3:30 p.m., and Sunday, 1:304:30 p.m. Closed Mondays and state holidays.
Admission: Free and open to the public
Parking: Ample, free parking is available at the John Dickinson Plantation
Directions: The John Dickinson Plantation is located on the northbound side of Delaware Route 9, one-half mile northeast of the intersection of Route 9 and U.S. Route 113
