On March 15, 2004, Amiga, Inc. announced that on April 23, 2003 it had transferred its rights over past and future versions of the Amiga OS ( but not over other intellectual property ) to Itec, LLC, later acquired by KMOS, Inc., a Delaware company.

Around 1787, the Spanish government, who had acquired the territory from France in 1762, brought in a band of Shawnee and Delaware Native Americans, who had been friendly to the French, to help protect the settlers from the Osage.

On the island's north western side is a small luxury resort operated by Voyages Hotels & Resorts until November 2009, when the resort was acquired by Delaware North.

In 1976 when the State of New Jersey was unable to fund the restoration of its newly acquired Prallsville Mills, local citizens formed Delaware River Mill Society, to “ restore, preserve, operate, maintain and interpret ” the historic site.

By 1941, it had also acquired the rights in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Louisiana.

MBNA Corporation was a bank holding company and parent company of wholly owned subsidiary MBNA America Bank, N. A., headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, prior to being acquired by Bank of America in 2006.

The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area was created from the land acquired for the planned reservoir.

* Juniper Financial Corporation: The bank acquired the Wilmington, Delaware credit card issuer 2001 and sold to Barclays Bank in 2004

The area acquired is almost as large as the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined, and extended Missouri north and westward along the river.

* Canadian Pacific acquired the Delaware and Hudson in 1991

The Penns later acquired the New Castle lands from the Duke of York, which they called the Three Lower Counties and are now known as Delaware.

Although the dam was never built, 72, 000 acres ( 291 km² ) of land were acquired, which became the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

The company had been U. S. owned until April 2005 when it was acquired by SW Technology Corporation, a Delaware company and affiliate of Synta Technology Corporation in Taiwan.

Sweden had the short lived colony New Sweden in Delaware in North America during the 1630s and later acquired the islands of Saint-Barthélemy ( 1785 – 1878 ) and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean.

The B & O acquired the Delaware Western Railroad, which had a charter but no track, merged it into the Baltimore & Philadelphia ( called the Philadelphia Branch in Maryland ) in 1883, and began construction.

CPU alumni acquired all rights to the CPU name and registered a " Columbia Pacific University " non-profit organization in Delaware.

Delaware acquired the fort from the United States government in 1947 after the federal government declared it a surplus site.

It was originally sited on the Delaware River in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, but was moved farther up the mountain when the Corps of Engineers acquired the land for the creation of the Corps of Engineer's project Tocks Island Dam.

The piece of track laid by the original company was acquired by the Wind Gap and Delaware Railroad

In 1886, the O & W acquired the operations of both the Utica, Clinton & Binghamton and the Rome & Clinton railroads from the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company.

To enable students and the public to spot Sloan forgeries, the Delaware Art Center ( according to its director, Bruce St. John ) will maintain a complete file of photographs of all Sloan works, as well as a card index file.

On March 16, 2005, KMOS, Inc. announced that it had completed all registrations with the State of Delaware to change its corporate name to Amiga, Inc. Several companies produce Amiga hardware and software today.

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.

Since almost all of Delaware is a part of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the effects of the ocean moderate its climate.

Delaware has also attracted some major credit card banks because of its relaxed rules regarding interest.

In addition, Delaware has used its position as the state of incorporation to generate revenue from its abandoned and unclaimed property laws.

Some of his proposals were adopted, specifically the extension of the Cumberland Road into Ohio with surveys for its continuation west to St. Louis ; the beginning of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the construction of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and the Louisville and Portland Canal around the falls of the Ohio ; the connection of the Great Lakes to the Ohio River system in Ohio and Indiana ; and the enlargement and rebuilding of the Dismal Swamp Canal in North Carolina.

The Federalist Party continued to fade away during his administration ; it maintained its vitality and organizational integrity in Delaware and a few localities, but was no longer a national factor.

The popularity of this Italian-American cuisine has grown from its origins in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts to most parts of the United States, Canada, and with the advent of chain restaurants, is now available in many parts of the world.

On June 14, the Connecticut Assembly instructed its delegates to propose independence, and the following day the legislatures of New Hampshire and Delaware authorized their delegates to declare independence.

Delaware, through its developed legal system and laws protecting shareholder rights, is geared toward the large complex public corporation, whereas Nevada and Wyoming are more attractive to the small privately held corporation.

The white settlers of the area used the name " nowata " for the township, and local Cherokees, being unaware the word had its origins in the Delaware Language, called the town Amadikanigvnagvna () which means " the water is all gone from here ", i. e. " no water ".

Ulster County was an original county of New York State, considerably larger than the present Ulster County, and at the time that Delaware County was created it still contained most of its original area.

Its location 30 miles north of Albany on the Delaware and Hudson Railway and its proximity to water power from the Hudson River and Kayaderosseras Creek led to rapid industrial development beginning in 1810.

The capital of the state of Delaware was moved here from Newcastle in 1777 because of its central location and relative safety from British raiders on the Delaware River.

Consequently, Wilmington, in the northern part of the state and its largest city, has many state offices and employees one would normally expect to find in the state capital, including the headquarters of the Office of the Attorney General, especially as many large American corporations maintain nominal offices in that city to register their Delaware corporation.

The two colleges in town are both very active in sports, with Wesley being a perennial powerhouse in its conference in Division III football and Delaware State making the FCS playoffs for the first time in 2007.

In 2008 Sporting News ranked Dover 215th in its list of the 400 Best Sports Cities based on the year October 2007-October 2008, a year which saw high attendance for the NASCAR races and Delaware State's football team making its first FCS tournament appearance.

The company made its filing with the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, citing a debt of $ 13 billion and assets of $ 7. 6 billion.

In the U. S., the word château took root selectively, in the Gilded Age resort town of Newport, Rhode Island, the châteaux were called “ cottages ”, but, north of Wilmington, Delaware, in the rich, rural “ Château Country ” centred upon the powerful Du Pont family, château is used with its original definition.

Having been the Director of the Dutch West India Company, and the predecessor of then-Director William Kieft, Minuit knew the status of the lands on either side of the Delaware River at that time.

Much of Wilmington's economy is based on its status as the most populous and readily accessible city in Delaware, a state that made itself attractive to corporations with business-friendly financial laws and a longstanding reputation for a fair and effective judicial system.

In the end, the museum was never built in any location, and ISAW's entity status was voided effective March 1, 1998 by the Delaware Secretary of State.

The Foundation is a Delaware LLC, with non-profit status as a scientific charity.

The Mason-Dixon line is said to have legally resolved vague outlines in the overlap between Maryland and Pennsylvania, which pretty much awarded Delaware to Pennsylvania, although Delaware would eventually prove too independent for legislation north of New Castle ( as well as that from the southerly Chesapeake Bay ), leading to the separation from Pennsylvania and unique pioneer status as America's first state, tied to neither province's destiny.

In the early days of the secession movement, the status of the border states Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware, all of which allowed slavery, was unclear.

At the time, the slave states of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas had not yet seceded from the U. S. The status of ( Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky ) ( later known as " border states "), remained unknown.

After the construction of Fort Delaware in 1820, Fort Mifflin was relegated to secondary status.

As Governor he led the successful effort to create a Delaware Supreme Court, the lack of which threatened Delaware ’ s ability to handle corporate litigation, and thereby ended Delaware ’ s status as the only state without such a court.

Populations in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut appear to be stable, while the status of populations in the Delaware River watershed affected by the recent floods of 2005 is uncertain at this time.

Printz helped to improve the military and commercial status of the colony by constructing Fort Nya Elfsborg, near present-day Salem on the east side of the Delaware River.

A full analysis of the status of the geminates, also known as long consonants, is not available, and more than one analysis of Delaware consonants has been proposed.