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New Sweden. New Sweden (Swedish: Nya Sverige) [1] was a colony of the Swedish Empire along the lower reaches of the Delaware River between 1638 and 1655 in present-day Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in the United States. [2] Established during the Thirty Years' War when Sweden was a great power, New Sweden formed part of the ...
Location of Delaware County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Delaware County, colloquially referred to as Delco, [2] is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. With a population of 576,830 as of the 2020 census, [3] it is the fifth-most populous county in Pennsylvania and the third-smallest in area. The county was created on September 26, 1789, from part of Chester County and named for the Delaware ...
The Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal, more commonly called the Delaware Canal, runs for 60 miles (97 km) parallel to the right bank of the Delaware River from the entry locks near the mouth of the Lehigh River and terminal end of the Lehigh Canal at Easton south to Bristol. At Easton, which today is the home of The National Canal ...
The Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River is a unit of the National Park Service designated under the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. It stretches along 73.4 miles (118.1 km) of the Delaware River between Hancock, New York, and Sparrowbush, New York. It includes parts of Delaware County, Orange County, and Sullivan County in New ...
The church was officially incorporated as the New Jerusalem Society of Edenfield, Delaware County, Pennsylvania on September 2, 1861. The church building was removed in about 1912 and those interred in the church's burial ground were removed to an unmarked grave in Mount Zion Cemetery in Collingdale, Pennsylvania in 1977.
August 22, 2024 at 7:41 PM. NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. - Some neighbors in a Delaware County community are worried a proposed logistics warehouse will ruin their neighborhood. Thursday night, residents ...
The Delaware Colony, officially known as the three " Lower Counties on the Delaware ", was a semiautonomous region of the proprietary Province of Pennsylvania and a de facto British colony in North America. [1] Although not royally sanctioned, Delaware consisted of the three counties on the west bank of the Delaware River Bay.