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Save the date for opportunities to be a partner in crafting a new interpretive plan for the Cooch’s Bridge Historic Site.

The Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs is pleased to share the announcement of a $5.4 million commitment from the National Park Service to rehabilitate the historic Sheriff’s House at First State National Historical Park.

Bottle fragments from Lewes, Del.’s Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck traced to the venerable wine estate.

Church has served Harrington’s Black community since 1895.

By Madeline Dunn, Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs’ historian and National Register of Historic Places coordinator

New listings include the Downtown Harrington Historic District, the Richard Allen School and the Taylor’s Bridge School.

Accreditation is the highest recognition afforded to museums in the United States.

Accreditation is the highest recognition afforded to museums in the United States.

Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs to administer the home and surrounding property at the heart of the site.

Accreditation is the highest recognition afforded to museums in the United States.

Accreditation is the highest recognition afforded to museums in the United States.

Accreditation is the highest recognition afforded to museums in the United States.

Board will review a National Register of Historic Places nomination for Dauneport, a historic New Castle County property.

Artwork created on July 28, 2020 depicts a variety of outdoor scenes at the historic property.

Supporters of the Scott African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Zion Church in Wilmington came together in May 2024 to celebrate the historic structure’s listing in the National Register of Historic Places. “Every time you think of your history, get excited about your future,” Bishop W. Darin Moore said during the celebration. For over a century, the […]

Delaware’s Atlantic Ocean resorts offer a wide variety of historical attractions including Swanendael, the site of Delaware’s first European settlement.