The Flag of Delaware Delaware DEL -ə-wairstate in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States . It borders Maryland to its south and west, Pennsylvania to its north, New Jersey to its northeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state's name derives from the adjacent Delaware Bay , which in turn was named after Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr , an English nobleman and the Colony of Virginia 's first colonial-era governor.
Delaware occupies the northeastern portion of the Delmarva Peninsula , and some islands and territory within the Delaware River . It is the 2nd smallest and 6th least populous state, but also the 6th most densely populated . Delaware's most populous city is Wilmington , and the state's capital is Dover , the 2nd most populous city in Delaware . The state is divided into three counties , the fewest number of counties of any of the 50 U.S. states; from north to south, the three counties are: New Castle County , Kent County , and Sussex County . The southern two counties, Kent and Sussex counties, historically have been predominantly agrarian economies. New Castle is more urbanized and is considered part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan statistical area that surrounds and includes Philadelphia , the nation's sixth most populous city . Delaware is considered part of the Southern United States by the U.S. Census Bureau , but the state's geography, culture, and history are a hybrid of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the country.
Before Delaware coastline was explored and developed by Europeans in the 16th century, the state was inhabited by several Native Americans tribes, including the Lenape in the north and Nanticoke in the south. The state was first colonized by Dutch traders at Zwaanendael , near present-day Lewes, Delaware , in 1631. Delaware was one of the Thirteen Colonies that participated in the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War , in which the American Continental Army , led by George Washington , defeated the British , ended British colonization and established the United States as a sovereign and independent nation. On December 7, 1787, Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States , earning it the nickname "The First State". (Full article...
Entries here consist of Good and Featured articles, which meet a core set of high editorial standards. John Joseph Tosi Sr. American football offensive lineman who played two seasons in the National Football League (NFL) and several for different minor leagues.
Born in
Wilmington, Delaware , Tosi attended
Salesianum School , playing football there on Saturdays and for the minor league
Eleventh Ward Whitejackets on Sundays. He accepted a scholarship offer from
Fordham following his high school career. Tosi played one season at Fordham, before being brought by a coach to
Niagara University . After three seasons there, he was selected in the 15th round of the
1939 NFL Draft by the
Pittsburgh Pirates . He played two games as a Pirate before being traded to the
Brooklyn Dodgers . He started one game in Brooklyn before being released; he spent the following four seasons in minor leagues, retiring in 1943. He unretired in 1944 and joined the
Philadelphia Eagles , appearing in one game. He retired again in 1945, made a return in 1946, and then retired a final time. (
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The Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team University of Delaware (UD) in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) college football as a member of CAA Football , the technically separate football arm of UD's full-time home of the Coastal Athletic Association . The team is currently led by head coach Ryan Carty and plays on Tubby Raymond Field at 18,500-seat Delaware Stadium located in Newark, Delaware . The Fightin' Blue Hens have won six national titles in their 117-year history – 1946 (AP College Division), 1963 (UPI College Division), 1971 (AP/UPI College Division), 1972 (AP/UPI College Division), 1979 (Division II), and 2003 (Division I-AA). They returned to the FCS National Championship game in 2007 and 2010.
The program has produced five
NFL quarterbacks:
Rich Gannon ,
Joe Flacco ,
Jeff Komlo ,
Pat Devlin , and
Scott Brunner . The Blue Hens are recognized as a perennial power in FCS football and Delaware was the only FCS program to average more than 20,000 fans per regular-season home game for each season from 1999 to 2010. In 2023, the program announced it will move into
Conference USA and the
Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) prior to the 2025 season. (
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The following are images from various Delaware-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 2 Nautical chart of the
Dutch colony Zwaanendael and Godyn's Bay (
Delaware Bay ), 1639 (from
History of Delaware )
Image 5 A field north of Fox Den Road along the Lenape Trail in
Middle Run Valley Natural Area (from
Delaware )
Image 7 Seaford (from
Delaware )
Image 10 Joe Biden , the 46th president of the United States and a
U.S. senator from Delaware from 1973 to 2009 (from
Delaware )
Image 11 Rehoboth Beach , a popular vacation spot during the summer months (from
Delaware )
Image 14 A two-shilling, six-pence banknote issued by Delaware in 1777 (from
Delaware )
Image 15 Joe Biden , the 46th president of the United States and a
U.S. senator from Delaware from 1973 to 2009 (from
Delaware )
Image 16 Map of Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 17 Map of Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 18 Rehoboth Beach , a popular vacation spot during the summer months (from
Delaware )
Image 19 Newark (from
Delaware )
Image 20 Delaware was named for
Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr , an English merchant and governor of the
Colony of Virginia from 1610 to 1618. (from
History of Delaware )
Image 21 A two-shilling, six-pence banknote issued by Delaware in 1777 (from
Delaware )
Image 23 Fort Delaware State Park on
Pea Patch Island , a popular spot during the spring and summer; a ferry takes visitors to the fort from nearby
Delaware City . (from
Delaware )
Image 25 The population density map for Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 26 Delaware's
license plate design, introduced in 1959, is the longest-running one in U.S. history. (from
Delaware )
Image 27 A field north of Fox Den Road along the Lenape Trail in
Middle Run Valley Natural Area (from
Delaware )
Image 28 Delaware's
license plate design, introduced in 1959, is the longest-running one in U.S. history. (from
Delaware )
Image 29 Ethnic origins in Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 31 Fort Delaware State Park on
Pea Patch Island , a popular spot during the spring and summer; a ferry takes visitors to the fort from nearby
Delaware City . (from
Delaware )
Image 32 Dover (from
Delaware )
Image 33 Fort Delaware , painted circa 1870 by
Seth Eastman . (from
History of Delaware )
Image 35 Ethnic origins in Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 36 The population density map for Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 37 Seaford (from
Delaware )
Image 38 The Köppen climate classification for Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 40 The Köppen climate classification for Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 41 Picking Peaches in Delaware , an illustration in an 1878 issue of
Harper's Weekly (from
Delaware )
Image 42 Newark (from
Delaware )
Image 44 Picking Peaches in Delaware , an illustration in an 1878 issue of
Harper's Weekly (from
Delaware )
Image 46 The Blackbird Pond on the
Blackbird State Forest Meadows Tract in
New Castle County, Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 47 The Blackbird Pond on the
Blackbird State Forest Meadows Tract in
New Castle County, Delaware (from
Delaware )
Image 49 Dover (from
Delaware )
Entries here consist of Good articles , which meet a core set of high editorial standards. Delaware Route 9 DE 9 ) is a 57.83-mile (93.07 km) state highway that runs from DE 1 near Dover Air Force Base in Kent County north to DE 2 in the city of Wilmington in New Castle County . DE 9 is a designated scenic highway known as the Delaware Bayshore Byway south of New Castle , running through mostly rural areas to the west of the Delaware Bay and the Delaware River as a two-lane undivided road. Between New Castle and Wilmington, DE 9 is a four-lane road that runs through urban and suburban areas. DE 9 passes through several cities and towns including Little Creek , Leipsic , Port Penn , Delaware City , and New Castle. DE 9 has an auxiliary route, DE 9A , that provides access to the Port of Wilmington . In addition, it has a truck route, DE 9 Truck , located to the south of New Castle.
DE 9 was first designated by 1936 to run from
U.S. Route 113 (US 113, now DE 1) southeast of
Dover north to
US 13 in
Smyrna , following its current alignment to Leipsic and Smyrna-Leipsic Road to Smyrna. In the 1950s, the route was extended north to
US 13 Alt. (now US 13) in Wilmington, in which it was rerouted at Leipsic to follow its current alignment to Wilmington. DE 9 was extended further north to DE 2 by the 1970s. The route was rerouted to bypass downtown New Castle in the 1980s. The intersection with DE 1 was reconstructed into an interchange in 2009. (
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Largest cities or towns in Delaware 2018 United States Census Bureau Estimate
Rank
Name
County
Pop.
Wilmington Dover
1
Wilmington New Castle 70,635
Newark Middletown
2
Dover Kent 38,079
3
Newark New Castle 33,673
4
Middletown New Castle 22,582
5
Smyrna New Castle/Kent 11,580
6
Milford Kent/Sussex 11,353
7
Seaford Sussex 7,861
8
Georgetown Sussex 7,427
9
Elsmere New Castle 5,981
10
New Castle New Castle 5,529
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