dover

     

Aerial view of Dover harbour

Trivia about dover

  • Home to a major U.S. Air Force base, this capital was founded in 1683
  • This seat of Kent County, Delaware is named for a city in England's county of Kent
  • To keep Delaware's capital away from the invading British, it was moved to this city in 1777
  • On August 11, 1683 William Penn issued a warrant to lay out this Delaware capital
  • Although Delaware's capital since 1777, it wasn't incorporated as a city until 1929
  • From France's Calais this city's a strait away; you should watch when you walk on its cliffs of white chalk
  • This Delaware capital was laid out as a site for a jail & courthouse on the order of William Penn
  • English cliff site
  • Coccolithophorids that lived 70-100 mil. yrs. ago fossilized to form this famous seaside site in England
  • Wordsworth called it "This sea-side town, under the white cliff's battlemented crown"
  • Roved
  • Found on the St. Jones River, this capital of Delaware bears the name of an English seaport
  • Founded in 1683 by William Penn, this city was officially laid out in 1717 over an area of 125 acres
  • Delaware's deed, given to William Penn in 1682, resides in the Hall of Records in this Capitol
  • This British coastal town has a lot of sole named for it
  • In 1777 it replaced New Castle as the capital of Delaware
  • The Johnson Victrola Museum in this Delaware capital tells the history of the Victor Talking Machine Company
  • The Turreted Castle at this city in southeast Britain has been called the "Key to England"