The Kearny Connection in Kearny, New Jersey allows suburban passenger trains from New Jersey Transit's Morris and Essex Lines ( former Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad ) to run to New York Penn Station, instead of their traditional ferry terminal on the river in Hoboken.

Delaware plates issued since the 1940's are still valid there, and that state even allows reproductions of the early plates to be licensed on newer cars.

In May 2011, the Delaware Legislature passed and Governor Jack Markell signed SB 17, which allows qualified, registered patients to obtain three ounces of marijuana every 14 days from state-regulated compassion centers.

The Tacony-Palmyra Bridge, the only Delaware River crossing in Philadelphia not operated by the Delaware River Port Authority ( thus resulting in a cheaper toll ), allows one to drive between the Tacony section of the city and Palmyra, New Jersey.

In the US, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 allows only Nevada, Oregon, Montana, and Delaware to legally wager on sports.

This prestigious fellowship allows its recipients to work as part time judicial clerks for the Supreme Court of Delaware or the Delaware Court of Chancery.

Eight years later, Delaware General Assembly passed legislation to allow slot machines at pari-mutuel horse racing venues.

Via a public records request, the two extracted voter identification from pollbooks, and voter preference from VVPATs, for a Delaware County, Ohio precinct with multiple voting machines.

Delaware North Companies Gaming & Entertainment is a gaming and racing operations company that focuses on racing venues that offer video gaming machines, poker rooms, table games, restaurants, retail shops and hotels.

The forced sale of the General Motors stock owned by or allocable to Christiana, Delaware, and the stockholders of Delaware, and deposited with the trustee, would result in a tax to those parties at the capital gains rate.

While studying law, he taught at Delaware Academy.

The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle in present-day Delaware in the Middle region by establishing a trading post at Zwaanendael, near the site of Lewes in 1631.

" In August 1777, General Sir William Howe led a British army through Delaware on his way to a victory at the Battle of Brandywine and capture of the city of Philadelphia.

The only real engagement on Delaware soil was the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, fought on September 3, 1777, at Cooch's Bridge in New Castle County.

As of 2000, 91 % of Delaware residents age 5 and older speak only English at home ; 5 % speak Spanish.

Following the example of New Jersey, which enacted corporate-friendly laws at the end of the 19th century to attract businesses from New York, Delaware played the game of fiscal competition by adopting in 1899 a general incorporation act aimed at attracting more businesses.

While most states require a for-profit corporation to have at least one director and two officers, Delaware laws do not have this restriction.

He crossed the Susquehanna River by ferry at Havre de Grace, then continued by train to Wilmington, Delaware.

Luxury suites, retail and game day concessions at the new stadium are done by global hospitality giant Delaware North Companies.

Kinnock gained attention in the United States in 1987 when it was discovered that then-Senator Joe Biden of Delaware plagiarized one of Kinnock's speeches during his 1988 presidential campaign in a speech at a Democratic debate in Iowa in August 1987.

Because of the high demand for slaves in the Deep South, free blacks were at risk of kidnapping, particularly in the border states of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware.

They married in 1763, lived at 22 The Strand in New Castle, Delaware.

* June 8 – Jamestown: Temporary Governor Gates ' convoy meets the ships of Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (" Delaware ") at Mulberry Island.

The members of the expedition, aboard the ships Fogel Grip and Kalmar Nyckel, sailed into Delaware Bay, which lay within the territory claimed by the Dutch, passing Cape May and Cape Henlopen in late March 1638, and anchored at a rocky point on the Minquas Kill that is known today as Swedes ' Landing on March 29, 1638.

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.

* Fort Christina ( 1638 )-located at the confluence of the Brandywine Creek and the Christina River in Wilmington, Delaware.

* Fort Casimir ( 1654 )-also known as Fort Trinity ( in Swedish, Trefaldigheten ), located at the end of Chestnut Street near Harmony & 2nd streets in New Castle, Delaware.

* Delaware Aqueduct, in New York State, United States – at 85 miles ( 137 km ) long, the world's longest continuous underground tunnel.

Delaware that occupies a key place at the Academy )

Minuit and his company arrived on the Fogel Grip and Kalmar Nyckel at Swedes ' Landing ( now Wilmington, Delaware ), in the spring of 1638.

The Bayards were a wealthy and aristocratic family in Delaware at that time, claiming descent and inheriting some of the wealth of Richard Bassett and Augustine Herrman, the Lord of Bohemia Manor.

In the Delaware River, three long islands were overgrown with greening trees and underbrush.

These plans, like Du Pont's, contained provisions for passing the vote on Du Pont's General Motors shares on to the ultimate stockholders of Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware, except that officers and directors of the three companies, their spouses, and other people living in their households, as well as other specified persons, were to be totally disenfranchised.

Delaware is divided into three counties.

The three counties were created on September 12, 1673, the first two on the west shore of the Delaware River, and the third on both sides of the river.

After taking stock, the English declared on November 11, 1674, that settlements on the west side of the Delaware River and Delaware Bay ( in present day Delaware and Pennsylvania ) were to be dependent on the Colony of New York, including the three Counties.

The extreme pro-slavery " Fire-Eater " William Lowndes Yancey and the Alabama delegation first left the hall, followed by the delegates of Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, three of the four delegates from Arkansas, and one of the three delegates from Delaware.

He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served three terms as U. S. Senator from Delaware, and as U. S. Secretary of State, and U. S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

DuPont's DeLisle plant is one of three titanium dioxide facilities ( including Edgemoor, Delaware, and New Johnsonville, Tennessee ) that are the largest producers of dioxin in the country, according to the US EPA's Toxic Release Inventory.

Today the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana is the size of Delaware, and the three Blackfoot reserves in Alberta have a much smaller area.

Today three states still have separate courts for law and equity ; the most notable is Delaware, whose Court of Chancery is where most cases involving Delaware corporations are decided.

There are three cities within the county's borders: Newburgh, on the Hudson River ; Port Jervis, on the Delaware River ; and Middletown, halfway between the other two.

Dover, Delaware ; Jefferson City, Missouri ; and Juneau, Alaska, are the other three state capitals with this distinction.

Ohio County is one of four counties in the United States to border a state with which it shares the same name ( the other three counties are Nevada County, California, Texas County, Oklahoma, and Delaware County, Pennsylvania ).

All three counties in Delaware — New Castle, Kent, and Sussex — are located on the peninsula ( though upper New Castle county only in part ).

While they were three of the five primary authors of the Declaration of Independence, they had little experience in heraldry and sought the help of Pierre Eugene du Simitiere, an artist living in Philadelphia who would later also design the state seals of Delaware and New Jersey and start a museum of the Revolutionary War.

While there is some disagreement over which three races make up the Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing, the Arabian list is more formal and consists of Daughters of the Desert Oaks in California, the Texas Yellow Rose Stakes, and the Cre Run Oaks in Delaware.

Nevada County is one of four counties in the United States to border a state with which it shares the same name ( the other three counties are Texas County, Oklahoma, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Ohio County, West Virginia ).

It is larger than three US States ; Rhode Island, Delaware & Connecticut, and the District of Columbia.

New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U. S. state of Delaware.

It is the most affluent of the three counties in the state of Delaware.