The Delaware Route 1 turnpike, which provides the main route to Wilmington and the Delaware beaches, passes to the east of Dover.

Delaware Route 8 is the main east – west route through Dover, passing through downtown on Division Street and West Dover on Forrest Avenue.

The freeway was readopted by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission for the new Route 38 freeway from the Ben Franklin Bridge eastward ( paralleling Route 70 and U. S. Route 30 ) to the area of Jackson Township, where it would follow current Interstate 195's alignment.

U. S. Route 9 is a north – south United States highway in the states of Delaware, New Jersey, and New York in the United States.

The southern terminus of the route is in Laurel, Delaware at an intersection with U. S. Route 13, while the highway's northern terminus is at a junction with Interstate 87 in Champlain, NY, where the roadway continues north as the unsigned NY 971B, which ends in a cul-de-sac just short of the Canadian border.

U. S. 9 runs an east – west path through Sussex County, running east from U. S. Route 13 in Laurel, passing through Georgetown, east to Lewes, where it leads to the Cape May – Lewes Ferry, which carries U. S. 9 across the Delaware Bay to New Jersey.

U. S. 9 was extended to Delaware by way of the Cape May – Lewes Ferry in the 1970s, replacing Delaware Route 28 between Laurel and Georgetown and Delaware Route 18 between Georgetown and Lewes.

U. S. 9 runs concurrent with Delaware Route 404 between Georgetown and the Five Points intersection near Lewes.

* U. S. Route 9 Truck in Georgetown, Delaware

* U. S. Route 9 Business in Lewes, Delaware

It extends from the Delaware River south to where the Musconetcong River goes into the Delaware River, northeast to the Jenny Jump Mountains and then along Route 80 to the Allamuchy Mountains to the terminal moraine near Hackettstown.

The highest elevation in the county is a slight rise along County Route 654 southeast of Cross Keys that reaches approximately 180 feet ( 55 m ) above sea level ; the lowest point is sea level at the Delaware River.

Shortly before sunrise on March 22 on Route 13 between Dover and Woodside in Dover, Delaware, Stuart Pinkham ( aka Richard Stuart and Poor Richard ) assumed duties as driver.

It runs from the Uhlerstown-Frenchtown Bridge at the Delaware River border with Pennsylvania in Frenchtown east to an intersection with U. S. Route 202 and Route 31 at the Flemington Circle in Flemington.

It intersects Route 29 and County Route 513 in Frenchtown, County Route 519 in Kingwood Township, County Route 579 on the border of Delaware Township and Raritan Township, and County Route 523 in Raritan Township.

With $ 71, 000 total in grants from the National Science Foundation, construction began on a 20-acre plot in Delaware, Ohio.

Nearby major roads intersection 1, 7, and 40, such as US Route 13, Delaware Route 273, Delaware Route 71, and Delaware Route 72 also make no indication of Bear's existence.

Including Brandywine Creek, 71 % of the Christina's basin is in Pennsylvania ( 400 mi² / 1, 036 km² ); 28 % is in Delaware ( 157 mi² / 407 km² ); and 1 % is in Maryland ( 8 mi² / 21 km² ).

Westbound Route 49 ( Broadway ) in downtown Salem, New Jersey | Salem at the intersection with New Jersey Route 45 | Route 45 ( Market Street ). Route 49 heads south on Broadway from an interchange with the Delaware Memorial Bridge extension of the New Jersey Turnpike ( Interstate 295 / U. S. Route 40 ) in the community of Deepwater in Pennsville Township, Salem County.

Route 90 as seen heading eastbound, with some nonstandard signage. Route 90 begins at the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border on the Betsy Ross Bridge over the Delaware River, where the road continues into Philadelphia as an unnumbered freeway that heads to an interchange with Interstate 95.

From the Betsy Ross Bridge, Route 90 heads to the southeast into Pennsauken Township, Camden County as a six-lane, freeway maintained by the Delaware River Port Authority, passing over residential areas as well as County Route 543 ( River Road ) and then featuring a toll plaza in the westbound direction.

The highway heads to the southeast, passing through hills and factories and working its way away from the Delaware River.

From this interchange, the route heads southeast along the east bank of the Delaware River as a four-lane divided highway briefly before narrowing into a two-lane undivided road.

The highway heads northward, heading along Reed Street, and there is an intersection with Delaware Avenue West, and soon after, intersections with West Pearl Street, and a local highway.

For its final stretch, Route 175 heads along the Delaware and Raritan Canal until coming to an end at a merge with Route 29 in Ewing Township.

Route 175 heads northward along the Delaware and Raritan Canal as River Road, passing through woodlands and residential homes.

I-890 heads south from downtown, crossing over the Delaware and Hudson Railway and CSX's Hudson Subdivision before finally connecting to downtown by way of Broadway at exit 5.

The route heads south as a four-lane limited-access highway, passing through a small open area in the otherwise developed town before passing under the Delaware and Hudson Railway.

The route heads east from I-95 and crosses the Delaware River from Delaware to New Jersey on the Delaware Memorial Bridge concurrent with U. S. Route 40.

Before its coastline was first explored by Europeans in the 16th century, Delaware was inhabited by several groups of Native Americans, including the Lenape in the north and Nanticoke in the south.

Delaware is bounded to the north by Pennsylvania ; to the east by the Delaware River, Delaware Bay, New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean ; and to the west and south by Maryland.

This border extends all the way east to the low-tide mark on the New Jersey shore, then continues south along the shoreline until it again reaches the 12-mile ( 19 km ) arc in the south ; then the boundary continues in a more conventional way in the middle of the main channel ( thalweg ) of the Delaware River.

Samuel Blommaert secretly tried to secure his interests with the founding of the colony of New Sweden on the Delaware in the south.

It is bordered on the north and east by the U. S. state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania, and on the southwest by Delaware.

The cuisine of the Southern United States is defined as the historical regional culinary form of states generally south of the Mason Dixon Line dividing Pennsylvania from Maryland and Delaware as well as along the Ohio River, and extending west to southern Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.

His friend Willem Usselincx, also disappointed by the WIC, drew Minuit ’ s attention to Swedish efforts to have found a colony on the Delaware River south of New Netherland.

In 1648, the Dutch built Fort Beversreede on the west bank of the Delaware, south of the Schuylkill near the present-day Eastwick section of Philadelphia, to reassert their dominion over the area.

The adjacent counties are Montgomery to the north ; Bucks to the northeast ; Burlington County, New Jersey to the east ; Camden County, New Jersey to the southeast ; Gloucester County, New Jersey to the south ; and Delaware County to the west.

Otsego and Cherry Valley together roughly covered the area of modern Otsego County, while Harpersfield covered the area south of the current county as far as the Delaware River.

Including all offshore islands ( the largest of which is Kent Island in Maryland ), the total land area south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal is.

Mason and Dixon's actual survey line began to the south of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and extended from a benchmark east to the Delaware River and west to what was then the boundary with western Virginia.

The surveyors also fixed the boundary between Delaware and Pennsylvania and the approximately north – south portion of the boundary between Delaware and Maryland.

US 9 is signed east – west in Delaware and north – south on the rest of its route.

Although the Dutch and Swedes returned to resettle the Delaware River region as early as 1638, much of the Delaware Bay area south of what is today the city of Newcastle remained unsettled until 1662, when a grant of land at the Hoernkills ( the area around Cape Henlopen, near the current town of Lewes ) was made by the city of Amsterdam to a party of Mennonites.

In 1680, the Duke reorganized the territory south of the Mispillion River as Deale County with the county seat at New Deale ( modern-day Lewes ); and created a third county, St. Jones, out of the Delaware territory between the Mispillion River and Duck Creek.

At this time, Penn also claimed that the Delaware territory extended as far south as Fenwick Island.

Whereas Penn claimed the Delaware territories extended to Fenwick Island, Calvert claimed the Colony ended at Lewes with all the land south of the settlement belonging to Somerset County.

The term includes the U. S. states of ( from north to south ): Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.