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

The southeastern portion of Somerset County in Franklin Township also includes the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park, which provides hiking, biking and boating.

Ruben Amaro, Jr., current general manager of the Phillies and son and namesake of Rubén Amaro, Sr., Phillies shortstop from the sixties and coach, co-founded the Richie Ashburn Foundation, which provides free baseball camp for 1, 100 underprivileged children in the Delaware Valley and awards grants to area schools and colleges.

Wilmington is also one of the major cities served by I-95, although the twin-span Delaware Memorial Bridge, a few miles south of the city, provides direct highway access between Delaware and New Jersey, carrying the I-295 eastern bypass route around Wilmington and Philadelphia, as well as highway U. S. 40, which continues eastward to Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The Maryland & Delaware Railroad ( MDDE ), a shortline railroad, provides freight rail service to Cambridge.

The Cape May-Lewes Ferry provides transportation across the Delaware Bay to Lewes, Delaware.

U. S. Route 322 is a two-lane arterial highway which traverses the Township east to west and provides access to the New Jersey Turnpike, north and south ( 30 minutes ), with access to the Commodore Barry Bridge and Delaware Memorial Bridge to Interstate 95 ( 40 minutes ).

The park also provides pedestrian access to the old Delaware & Hudson railway bed.

The Town of Cochecton ( its official name ) is situated on the Delaware River, directly across from Damascus, Pennsylvania, to which a bridge over the river provides access.

The western terminus is at the Betsy Ross Bridge over the Delaware River in Pennsauken Township, Camden County, where the road continues into Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as an unnumbered road that provides access to Interstate 95.

The ferry trip takes approximately 80 minutes and provides a view of three lighthouses: the Cape May Light in New Jersey, and the Harbor of Refuge Light and Delaware Breakwater East End Light near Lewes.

The new tower provides at least grade B coverage as far west as Lancaster ; as far south as Dover, Delaware and as far north as New Brunswick, New Jersey.

The department is mainly responsible for security at the Delaware Memorial Bridge, but also provides security at the New Castle Airport ( and the Corporate Complex located adjacent to the New Castle Airport ), the Civil Air Terminal at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware Airpark in Dover, the Three Forts Ferry Crossing in Delaware City, the Cape May − Lewes Ferry, Millville Municipal Airport and Cape May Airport.

The Cape May-Lewes Ferry provides an alternate route between travelers from New Jersey and the Northeast to areas of Southern Delaware.

Delaware North Companies Sportservice provides concessions, premium dining, catering and retail services to sporting and entertainment venues in the United States and Canada.

Delaware North Companies International provides food service and hospitality to international sporting and entertainment venues including Wembley Stadium, Emirates Stadium, Pride Park Stadium and the Australian Open tennis tournament.

The DCH plants thousands of trees and leads regional projects to enhance Delaware ’ s urban forests ; supports community gardens, urban farms, and school gardens ; organizes city park improvement projects ; beautifies Delaware ’ s roadsides with native vegetation ; maintains the landscaping of many traffic medians and streetscapes ; and provides educational programs for families and adults.

A refurbished area of South Philadelphia alongside Columbus Boulevard / Delaware Avenue ( near the Walt Whitman Bridge ) provides big box shopping at a Best Buy and an Ikea for thousands of shoppers.

* 1776 – Delaware Separation Day – Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.

In the mid 1760s, the government requested the Huron and Delaware to return runaway slaves, but there was no record of slaves having been returned.

Their cause was strengthened by the adoption of general incorporation statutes in the states in the late 19th century, most notably in New Jersey and Delaware, which allowed anyone to form corporations without any particular government grant or authorization, and thus without the government-granted monopolies that had been common in charters granted by the Crown or by acts of the legislature.

Penn planned a city on the Delaware River to serve as a port and place for government.

Arnold and Spaatz drew up the prospectus for Pan American when SCADTA hired a company in Delaware to obtain air mail contracts from the US government.

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.

After Indiana became a state in 1816 and the Delaware Indians gave up all their claims in Indiana and Ohio to the United States government in 1818, through the Treaty of St. Mary's, settlers started to come to the area.

Delaware Township is governed under the Township form of government with a five-member Township Committee.

A sister city partnership was signed May 13, 2011, by the Cities of Delaware and Baumholder, Germany, highlighting a four-day stay in Delaware by a Baumholder delegation, in which the guests established relationships with local government, business and educational leaders.

In 1756, the Provincial government decided to build a chain of forts stretching from the Susquehanna River at Harrisburg in the west to the Delaware River at Easton in the east.

A United States government treaty ceded the Wyandot Nation a small portion of fertile land located in an acute angle of the Missouri River and Kansas River, which they purchased from the Delaware in 1843.

The Dominion of New England was imposed as a unifying government on the colonies between the Delaware River and Penobscot Bay by King James II in the 1680s, and was dissolved in 1689.

A flood control study is currently being conducted for the Millstone River basin by two government organizations, which may affect the Delaware and Raritan Canal in the future.

While in Delaware, the Chews rented their house on Third Street to Don Juan de Miralles ( Spanish representative to the American government ); the Marquis de Chastellux ( principal liaison officer between the French Commander-in-Chief and George Washington ); and to George and Martha Washington, from November 1781 to March 1782, during the Second Continental Congress.

In December 1786 Brant, along with leaders of the Shawnee, Delaware, Miami, Wyandot, Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi nations, met at the Wyandot village of Brownstown and renewed the wartime confederacy in the West by issuing a statement to the American government declaring the Ohio River as the boundary between them and the whites.

On March 23, 2009 Dubai World the United Arab Emirates domestic and international investment arm of the Dubai emirate government announced that it and a wholly owned subsidiary Infinity World have filed a lawsuit in the Delaware Chancery Court claiming that MGM Mirage breached its CityCenter joint venture agreement after the company filed its 10-K report with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission which states in part " There is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.

The requirements for maintaining racial balance in the schools of each of the districts was ended by the District Court in 1994, but the process of busing students to and from the suburbs for schooling continued largely unchanged until 2001, when the Delaware state government passed House Bill 300, mandating that the districts convert to sending students to the schools closest to them, a process that continues.

Castle ’ s terms marked the full establishment of what Delaware political commentator Celia Cohen has called “ the Age of Incumbency .” Following du Pont ’ s very successful and popular terms as Governor, Delaware politics seemed to have reached a consensus, with leaders of both parties being regularly re-elected, while working closely and quietly together on a conservative fiscal low tax, pro business, and clean government agenda.

Some people believe this program is produced with funding from the state of Delaware, raising conflict of interest issues about the programs ability to report independently on state government and current officeholders.

The Delaware River and Bay Authority or DRBA is a bi-state government agency of the U. S. states of New Jersey and Delaware established by interstate compact in 1961.

Bromberg currently lives in Wilmington, Delaware, where he and his wife, artist Nancy Josephson, own an extensive violin sales and repair shop, with a partial subsidy from the City of Wilmington, Delaware.

Cleveland was among the leaders in early support, but Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware, Allen G. Thurman of Ohio, Samuel Freeman Miller of Iowa, and Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts also had considerable followings, along with various favorite sons.

Her knowledge of support networks and resources in the border states of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware was invaluable to Brown and his planners.

However, Breckinridge received almost no support in most of the Northern states ( which Lincoln swept except for split electoral votes from New Jersey going to Douglas and Lincoln ) but, as the candidate of the Buchanan faction, did outpoll Douglas in Pennsylvania and won Delaware and received some support comparable to Douglas in Connecticut.

In Delaware, spousal support is usually not awarded in marriages of less than 10 years.

Delaware, though officially remaining a member of the Union, was a border state and divided in its support of both the Confederate and the Union causes.

Delaware residents support a popular farmer's market, professional theaters, the Ballet Met, the Central Ohio Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Symphony, Opera Columbus, Contemporary American Theater Company, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Delaware Community Chorus and many theater opportunities.

Shawnee war chief Blue Jacket and Delaware ( Lenape ) leader Buckongahelas, encouraged by their previous victories and the hope of continued British support, argued for a return to the Treaty of Fort Stanwix of 1768.

The New Haven Colony would not get any support from its New England patrons and Puritan Governor John Winthrop was to testify that the " Delaware Colony " " dissolved " owing to summer " sickness and mortality.

DeGette, who had had been working on the measure since 2001, enlisted the support of Representative Michael N. Castle ( Republican from Delaware ), who became DeGette's principal Republican cosponsor of the legislation.

She earned her GED in 1968 and later attended Delaware Technical and Community College, while working two jobs to support the family.

Du Pont's attempt to garner the support of President Abraham Lincoln was ignored, and he returned home to Delaware.

To support the expected increase in traffic, the wooden bridge over the Delaware River at Easton was also replaced by a double-tracked, iron bridge.

In May 1775, a group of Delaware, Mohawk and Shawnee emissaries formed a delegation which headed south to support the British who were trying to gain the help of the Cherokees and other tribes.

He visited representatives of the Delaware, Shawnee, and other tribes to secure their support, or at least neutrality, in the war with Britain.

These included an increase in judicial salaries and significant improvements in the judicial pension system, establishment of full-time Courts of Common Pleas in Kent and Sussex Counties, enduring support for the creation of the present separate Supreme Court of Delaware and extensive improvements and enlargements of the judicial facilities in both the Public Building in Wilmington and the Kent County Courthouse.

Chingachgook wanted to create a band of volunteers from all the nations of the Delaware River valley to support and protect their collective interests.

In June William Johnson traveled to the Iroquois headquarters at Onondaga, and successfully negotiated support for the British side with the Iroquois, Shawnee, and Delaware, forces that Shirley also hoped to use for his expedition.

The system is expected to support TiNy-Threads ( a threading library developed at the University of Delaware ) and POSIX Threads.

A few decades later, Professor Raymond W. Kirkbride of the University of Delaware, a French professor and World War I veteran, won support from university president Walter S. Hullihen to send students to France to study during their junior year.

The parade ground was excavated and thousands of piles were steam driven to support a foundation for a concrete three-gun battery as a way to modernize the defenses protecting ports along the Delaware River.

The justification for Delawarean as an intermediate subgroup rests upon the high degree of similarity between Mahican and the two Delaware languages, but relatively little detailed argumentation in support of Delawarean has been adduced.