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Exhibit supported by the National Park Service’s National Maritime Heritage Grant Program.

New employee will serve in the State Historic Preservation Office.

With the lowest-lying average elevation in the country, Delaware history experts are eyeing future solutions to rising tides and a changing climate.

Delaware’s historic structures reflect the craftsmanship of past laborers and the work of modern historians and craftsmen who strive to keep them protected.

Responsibilities will include maintaining, repairing and preserving the nearly 90 structures administered by the division.

Artifact placed in storage pending development of future exhibits.

Responsibilities include care and maintenance of this historic 1847 property.

Annie Hicks’s research focused on revealing more details about historically underrepresented groups at Cooch-Dayett Mill.

Museums and historic sites are among the organizations eligible for support.

The Story of the DuPont “Colored” Schools In the 1920s -1930s, as part of a large-scale rebuilding campaign spearheaded by the Delaware School Auxiliary Association (DSAA), industrialist and philanthropist Pierre S. du Pont, funded the construction of modern, architect designed schools across the state of Delaware. The campaign included 90 schools for African American and […]

On Saturday, May 17, 2014, the New Sweden Centre is sponsoring a celebratory event marking the 375th anniversary of the arrival of Anthony, a Black man later known as Antoni Swart, who was among the first colonists of New Sweden which centered on Fort Christina in present-day Wilmington, Del.

Every year, the Sussex Gardeners help decorate Lewes for the holidays, including the Zwaanendael Museum. Learn more about this unique club.

Employees help to make the site “the perfect wedding location.”

National Park Service grant helped support the repairs.

Town’s oldest–known commercial building with intact historic-fabric was built in the 1840s.

Extensive research and surveys have led to an updated and expanded listing of the Milton Historic District in the National Register of Historic Places.