** The Benjamin Franklin Bridge across the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey

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.

Small portions of Delaware are also situated on the eastern side of the Delaware River sharing land boundaries with New Jersey.

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.

A ridge about in elevation extends along the western boundary of the state and separates between the watersheds that feed Delaware River and Bay to the east and the Chesapeake Bay to the west.

The Unami Lenape in the Delaware Valley were closely related to Munsee Lenape tribes along the Hudson River.

With the loss of their lands on the Delaware River and the destruction of the Minqua by the Iroquois of the Five Nations in the 1670s, the remnants of the Lenape who wished to remain identified as such left the region and moved over the Alleghany Mountains by the mid-18th century.

The British remained in control of the Delaware River for much of the rest of the war, disrupting commerce and providing encouragement to an active Loyalist portion of the population, particularly in Sussex County.

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

After crossing the Delaware River in the dead of winter, he defeated the British in two battles, retook New Jersey and restored momentum to the Patriot cause.

He led his army across the Delaware River to capture nearly 1, 000 Hessians in Trenton, New Jersey.

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.

* 1806 – The original Lower Trenton Bridge ( also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge ), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.

New Jersey is bordered on the north and northeast by New York ( parts of which are across the Hudson River, Upper New York Bay, the Kill Van Kull, Newark Bay, and the Arthur Kill ); on the east by the Atlantic Ocean ; on the southwest by Delaware across Delaware Bay ; and on the west by Pennsylvania across the Delaware River.

* Delaware River Region, encompassing Mercer County, Burlington County, Camden County, Gloucester County, and Salem County.

* Delaware National Scenic River

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.

Delaware allows slot machines at three horse tracks ; they are regulated by the state lottery commission.

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.

Delaware is long and ranges from to across, totaling, making it the second-smallest state in the United States after Rhode Island.

A long legal battle, Guth v. Loft, then ensued, with the case reaching the Delaware Supreme Court and ultimately ending in a loss for Guth.

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

:" Words are to the Anthropologist what rolled pebbles are to the Geologist — battered relics of past ages often containing within them indelible records capable of intelligent interpretation — and when we see what amount of change 2000 years has been able to produce in the languages of Greece & Italy or 1000 in those of Germany France & Spain we naturally begin to ask how long a period must have lapsed since the Chinese, the Hebrew, the Delaware & the Malesass had a point in common with the German & Italian & each other — Time!

And the remainder was not surveyed until between 1846 and 1849, or barely in advance of the creation of Stone County, although long after the evacuation of the Delaware and other Native American tribes.

In the late 1960s, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission ( DVRPC ) proposed construction of a long, $ 20 million freeway along the Route 45 corridor in Gloucester County which would have extended from Exit 24 of Interstate 295 in Woodbury to a planned U. S. Route 322 freeway in Mullica Hill.

Scouting in Delaware has a long history, from the 1910s to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live.

These transportation links and geographic proximity give Wilmington some of the characteristics of a satellite city to Philadelphia, but Wilmington's long history as the most important city in Delaware, its significant urban core, and its independent value as a business destination makes it more properly considered a small but independent city in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

The town lagged for a long time, most definitely the poorer sibling to its sister city, New Hope, Pennsylvania, which lies across the Delaware River.

Peter Grubb did not stay long to run the operation, but leased it out in 1745 for 20 years and returned to Wilmington, Delaware.

The areas along the Delaware River and its tributaries in eastern Pennsylvania were long inhabited by indigenous peoples of various cultures.

New Jersey's spine route is long, running between the Hudson River and the Delaware River.

The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal ( C & D Canal ) is a 14 &# 8209 ; mile ( 23 &# 8209 ; km ) long, 450 &# 8209 ; foot ( 137 &# 8209 ; m ) wide and 40 &# 8209 ; foot ( 11 &# 8209 ; m ) deep ship canal that cuts across the states of Maryland and Delaware, in the United States.

Cape Henlopen, on Delaware Bay, has long been a public use area although it did not officially become a Delaware state park until 1964.

The protagonist is Robot Jones, a short automaton who lives in a small city in Delaware during the early 1980s apparently — the animation style, clothing, and soundtrack all seem to indicate that decade ; Robot attempts to learn of human nature by attending Polyneux Middle School, where he meets three new friends: Socks ( Kyle Sullivan ), a taller boy with curly blonde hair ; Mitch ( Gary Leroi Gray ), a headphones-wearing boy whose eyes are hidden by his long hair ; and Cubey ( Myles Jeffrey ), a shorter boy with spiked black hair who wears big, square sunglasses and a Pac-Man T-shirt.

) Hossitt and Jansz secured a treaty granting the Dutch a parcel of land running along the shore eight Dutch miles long and half a Dutch mile deep ( roughly 29 by just under 2 US miles ), nearly coincidental with the coast of modern Sussex and Kent counties in Delaware.

* August 11 – U. S. Senator Joe Biden from Delaware announces he will not seek the Democratic nomination, saying his campaign would be " a long shot " and that he could wield the most influence in the Senate.

The bar exams in Alabama, California, Delaware, Nevada, South Carolina, and Texas are also three days long.

The Maurice River, pronounced " Morris ", is approximately long and is the second longest and largest tributary to Delaware Bay.

The river widens into a tidal estuary, approximately long, that flows south, then west, entering Cohansey Cove on Delaware Bay, approximately southwest of Bridgeton.

Pea Patch Island is a small island, approximately 1 mi ( 1. 6 km ) long, in the U. S. state of Delaware, located in the mid channel of the Delaware River near its entrance into Delaware Bay.