European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ten blur. Mid s if if is i no to nil f Mirn  to Hitler Inmond st three pm Tii s Are import it in the shipments an Atu nys and up of Only in w Castle. Kent and  rum ii n Mii it for Del Tiutin Hay to Hii h ii this tent Mats vast.  Fiji whirr  i Early Virginia. Plant p to Dunn Fin tin it ind of in i Mirati in . Llu Tonii Hiis hut to entry on sex ten ivc Ali ii ring and twin link  hut still him  Norren of us incr mtg land area Tatken up in not Marsh and in additional  in ret by fresh in tar of i Hose Are Cypress Moke and Allendale i Church in . Gilill in Active i. Cooch i Bridge where old glory was first unfurled m land Battle. Were it not for the Early swedish colonists Pioneer across America might have Hud n tougher housing problem than they did Export once. It wan the swede who introduced the los Cal in that easily made Well tier tight Duru Blo dwelling. And it was quickly adopted by colonists of other nationalities and imitated wherever Quick housing was needed. Anybody interested in seeing one of the original models need Only drop by the Delaware state museum at Dover. Delaware claims the title of the first stale inasmuch As it was first to be in the Union by ratifying the Constitution on dec. 7, 1787. Before any of the other original 13 stat cd got around to it from those Days with the first Federal census showing 59,0% residents Delaware has grown a much us any slate could within Iha limits of an Wren 06 Miles Long and 35 Miles across at the widest Point. In dlr oct proportion to this size perhaps itt the klan plan City of Wilmington Home to 05,827 people and one of the biggest names in . Business the Dupont company. This giant Industrial Empire makes Wil Mington the chemical capital of the world today. It All begun in 1803 with the tint High Quality Gunpowder production in America by e. I. Dupont student of Lavoisier the great French chemist. Its original powder Sheds stand just beyond the City limits a part of the hag Ley museum of . Industry. Wilmington in bigger than its City limits it b he Center for in area sex lending into new Jersey Maryland Vir Ginia and Pennsyl Vanlit. It s an important Kirt City u to known fur textile manufacturing leather railway cur shipbuilding paper making machinery and meld i prod urls. The leather business nun been on the grow since it when the quakers were Mak Iny Turk skin and rat mols. To any to g cd Tom d Al a for Lor Kloof in shoes. Skipping in Romul tin Salni fun Buluk Nylon Paui h out of is i Effird. Mid lilt a product us Dover Lite Tju int Pill Wilh n Man a population of . In Dover in the Chitram firmly Difu a til. Geor Tylim my c cup Tull Bill Denji.   Hull. The fij-j.1 Oil it finer bus Sutra Inlo him Nilion it i i Law tre City. Ami cloth inc in Tiu if to Wilmington. Muld mown. Mil full Harrington Smyrna find Mallun chickens mid broilers lire it till. Big business providing some 70 per cent of i if i my income and they re among the things canned it Dovir. Also capital of the farming Region. Fish me Haddon in Pur the stars and stripes at Wilmington. New Castle and Lew of ii their Trade with the West indies. Europe and the Orient. Delaware River pilots who handle shipping to Phlon Delphia and other spots still have their Home Hose in Lewes. The White by network includes the historic Chesapeake and Delaware Romul linking Thi Del aware River and Chesa Peake Bay. Fri Raykov marked the first sell lenient Al in Del were when the dutch founded Zane dam in hi.11 on the Halls of explorations by Henry Hudson and others. Indians jul Rel wary on at lie Mil Lem Neil burned Down their to Ronde. Then in 1&1h, Dutrh like the Purl non at Plymouth Rock the swedes stepped ashore on an unusual Mitt Mil Conn Ltd to a turf. Now part of fort Christina state Park at Wil Mington. In i Fath Sweden marked the Rioth anniversary of new Sweden with n gun Ltd Monument the swedes hoping to increase i heir Commerce set up a trading company and expanded their Colony by purchasing land from the indians who were also Selling furs. Just up the River the dutch were interested in the fur Trade too and the Competition grew into outright warfare. Dutch nov. Peter Stuyvesant of new Amsterdam later new York City i tent dutch ships and troops and eventually brought about the capitulation of the swedes. Bui English dutch dim titties abroad spread to the new world Anel the dutch in Delaware joined the swedes in defeat and pledged Nlle glance to the a nth Crown in 1 64. When William Penn got his land Ernnt from King Charles ii his agents noted that what was to become Pennsylvania would be landlocked. Through deeds and leases he acquired the three lower coun ties that later became Delaware. On aug. 27, 1g82, the great Penn first set foot in american Soli at new Castle. Unrest abroad again brought raiding privateers from France and Spain to Dela Ware territory and with pleas for de sense forces unanswered by the quakers in Philadelphia. Delaware set up its own army which later provided a fighting unit against the British in the american revolution. Later the lower counties were also allowed to set up their own Assembly and when difficulties with England begun to Boll up three representatives from the us Sembly Thomas Mckenna. Caesar Rodney and George read represented the area at the Continental Congress. These three later signed the declaration of Independence in connection with which Rodney made his historic ride from Dover to Phil Adelphia to break a deadlocked vote on in dependence. War came and Delaware Felt its effects. At one Point. Delaware president James Mckinly Wii captured by the British. In was another Man from Delaware John nuke on. Who presided Over the Annop Olin convention of 1786. Forerunner of the Philadelphia constitutional convention in 17kt. On dec. 7. 1787. Delaware ratified the untied styles Constitution and was the first site in Lite Union. The slate maintain Many Orch let Flurel it is from in past. Among these Are old swi Dick Church in Wilmington dating from Igor und still in a i Sarratt s Chape at Rcd Cutca Utu culled i be Cradle of a Lam disc m America the old town Hall 1tw in Wilmington und the Qutul Ntxo Wiiri Giulii muh Uin m Lewes built in the so Lof the town  at doom Holl ill. Lit null Ful tar Oquinn Homes Are opened to hit Public during colonial Days every year in Dover new Cuylle and Odessa at wll Manston. Too. Is the splendid Henry Francis Dupont Winter Hur museum of american decorative arts from 1b-Jo-1h40. Housed in More than a Hundred period rooms. Pas 13