Moving Companies in Delaware (DE)

DELAWARE

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Here is a brief introduction to the state of Delaware.

Capital City:  Dover
Nicknames: First State, Diamond State and Small Wonder. 
Population over 800,000 residents

State’s Flag: Adopted in 1913, Delaware’s flag displays the date it became the first state and shows a farmer and a soldier with a shield bearing agricultural products.

In 1609, after mistaking the Delaware Bay for a route to the Far East, English explorer Henry Hudson headed north. On his heels was Samuel Argall, a fellow Englishman who happened upon the inlet while seeking shelter from a storm. Before departing, he named the area for Thomas West, Lord De La Wan, the governor of the Virginia colony. Some two decades later, in 1631, the Dutch established a settlement at Zwaanendael (present day Lewes). Relations with the local Indians soon turned disastrous, however the colonists were massacred, and heir settlement was burned to the ground. It would be another seven years before the Swedes would establish Fort Christina in Wilmington-the first (successful settlement in Delaware. In 1654 a struggle broke out between the Swedes and the Dutch, who had reestablished themselves at Fort Casimir in New Castle. When the Swedes tried to seize the fort, the Dutch fought them off and took control of all the Swedish territory. A decade later, the Pc British settled the question of who owned Delaware when their fleet lea sailed into Delaware Bay and commandeered the area, making it part of New York. The territory changed hands for the last time in 1682, when William Penn, concerned that the landlocked colony of Pennsylvania did not have access to the ocean, petitioned King Charles II for a port. He was granted the land south of Pennsylvania on the west side of the Delaware River and Bay. Penn established a representative government for both colonies, but Delawareans became worried that their giant partner would eventually leave them without a voice in government. In response to their demands, the boundary was redrawn in 1701. With the peak of the New Castle courthouse as its center, a circle with a 12-mile radius was drawn; the arc that sliced through Pennsylvania created the only curved border in the United States. Penn granted Delaware its own legislature in 1704.

The British ruled the colony until 1776. Although many citizens of Delaware were loyalists, others bristled under British rule. In the end, the independents won. Two of Delaware’s three delegates to the Continental Congress split votes, and it was only after a breathless ride through the night to Philadelphia by the third delegate, Caesar Rodney, that the tie-breaking vote for independence was cast. The one Revolutionary War battle to take place on Delaware’s soil was a small skirmish, known as the Battle of Cooch’s Bridge, in September 1777. The colonists, outnumbered by the British, were forced to retreat. On December 7, 1787, four years after the end of the Revolution, Delaware led the way to complete independence by being the first state to ratify the United States Constitution. In 1984 S. B. Woo is elected lieutenant governor, becoming the highest-ranking Asian-American official in the United States. In 1995 legislature approves use of slot machines at Dover Downs, Harrington, and Delaware Park. In 2000 Ruth Ann Minner is elected state’s first woman governor.   

The nation’s first state and now home to some 200,000 companies, Delaware has been at the crossroads of history for more than three and a half centuries. Despite being a Mecca for big business, however, Delaware retains a bucolic charm-one-half of the state is covered with farmland and one-third with forests. Delaware’s southeastern corner fronts the Atlantic Ocean, while the northern tip of the state is nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Delaware is, as Thomas Jefferson once described it, “a jewel among states.”  

Service industries: Banks, insurance companies, investment firms.

Manufacturing: Chemicals, food processing, automobile production.

Agriculture: Broiler chickens, soybeans, corn, potatoes, peas.

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