Fort Delaware is a former harbor defense facility, designed by chief engineer Joseph Gilbert Totten and located on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River...
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Fort Delaware State Park is a 288-acre (117 ha), 1 mi (1.6 km) long Delaware state park on Pea Patch Island in the mid channel of the Delaware River near...
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Union and Civilian. Delaware City, Delaware: Fort Delaware Society, 1997. Mowday, Bruce and Dale Fetzer. Unlikely Allies: Fort Delaware's Prison Community...
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the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and is the location of the Forts Ferry Crossing to Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island. The Delaware City Historic District...
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the construction of an earthwork fort around the Rocks. At the time, the Dutch had claimed the area south to the Delaware (then called "South River"). The...
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of Seaford. Forts Ferry Crossing connects Delaware City with Fort Delaware and Fort Mott, New Jersey. Amtrak has two stations in Delaware along the Northeast...
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restored the fort, which has been named a National Historic Landmark. Built in 1681 in Philadelphia near the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill...
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were established on both sides of the Delaware River. Fort Christina, located in what is now Wilmington, Delaware, was the first settlement, named after...
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Fort Miles was a United States Army World War II installation located on Cape Henlopen near Lewes, Delaware. Although funds to build the fort were approved...
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Fort Mott, located in Pennsville, Salem County, New Jersey, United States, was part of the Harbor Defenses of the Delaware, a three-fort defense system...
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