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Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs to sponsor 10 special events during May 2015

Dover Days activities, the Zwaanendael Maritime Festival and the history and archaeology of the early-Colonial Delaware Valley among events to be presented.



Bells throughout Delaware to ring as part of “Bells Across the Land: A Nation Remembers Appomattox” on April 9, 2015

Bells across Delaware will ring in commemoration of Robert E. Lee’s 1865 surrender which effectively ending the American Civil War.



The First State’s Dutch heritage to be featured at Lewes, Del.’s Zwaanendael Museum in April 2015

Netherlands connection stretches back in time to the state’s first European colony, Swanendael, established by the Dutch in 1631 in present-day Lewes.



Lecture/tours of the hull of the DeBraak, a shipwrecked 18th-century British warship, to return to Lewes, Del. beginning on June 1, 2015

British warship was capsized and lost off the Delaware coast on May 25, 1798.



Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs museums closed on Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015

Museums of the state of Delaware closed on April 5, 2015. The John Dickinson Plantation, New Castle Court House and Zwaanendael Museum will also be closed on April 3, 2015.






 Pages Tagged With: "history"

Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs to sponsor 10 special events during May 2015

Dover Days activities, the Zwaanendael Maritime Festival and the history and archaeology of the early-Colonial Delaware Valley among events to be presented.



Bells throughout Delaware to ring as part of “Bells Across the Land: A Nation Remembers Appomattox” on April 9, 2015

Bells across Delaware will ring in commemoration of Robert E. Lee’s 1865 surrender which effectively ending the American Civil War.



The First State’s Dutch heritage to be featured at Lewes, Del.’s Zwaanendael Museum in April 2015

Netherlands connection stretches back in time to the state’s first European colony, Swanendael, established by the Dutch in 1631 in present-day Lewes.



Lecture/tours of the hull of the DeBraak, a shipwrecked 18th-century British warship, to return to Lewes, Del. beginning on June 1, 2015

British warship was capsized and lost off the Delaware coast on May 25, 1798.



Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs museums closed on Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015

Museums of the state of Delaware closed on April 5, 2015. The John Dickinson Plantation, New Castle Court House and Zwaanendael Museum will also be closed on April 3, 2015.