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Display focuses on the six simple machines (inclined plane, screw, wedge, pulley, lever, and wheel and axle) that constitute the elementary building blocks of which many more-complicated machines are composed.

EXHIBIT CLOSED March 19, 2016.

Exhibit explores His Majesty’s Sloop of War DeBraak, a British warship that was capsized and lost off the Delaware coast on May 25, 1798.

Family members enjoyed a program on the true story of one of their ancestors—James Summers, a free Black man who manumitted his own children in 1797.

Programs to shine a spotlight on the life and military career of the American patriot from Duck Creek (Smyrna), Del.

EXHIBIT CLOSED Dec. 7, 2014.

Division seeks input on its finding that the selected projects will not adversely affect historic properties.

Iconic Sussex County structure helped guide mariners for more than 100 years.

Aug. 2, 2014 activities to offer fresh perspectives on Delaware history.

Several historic places are located within a 20-mile radius of Delaware’s Atlantic coast.