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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    New Sweden (redirect from Fort Nya Korsholm)
    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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    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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    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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    Swedes, who established the colony of New Sweden at Fort Christina in present-day Wilmington, Delaware, in 1638. The Dutch captured the colony in 1655 and...
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