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Exhibit on display from Oct. 6 to Dec. 18, 2014.

Legislation passed in Congress in December 2014; awaiting President Obama’s signature.

Governor Jack Markell has issued a proclamation declaring March 10, 2014 as Harriet Tubman Day in Delaware in commemoration of the 101st anniversary of the death of the noted Underground Railroad conductor.

Several historic places are located within a 20-mile radius of Delaware’s Atlantic coast.

Historic Newark mill was built in the 1830s.

Iconic Sussex County structure helped guide mariners for more than 100 years.

Exhibit-arts specialist will depart the agency on Dec. 31, 2014.

On Saturday, May 17, 2014, the New Sweden Centre is sponsoring a celebratory event marking the 375th anniversary of the arrival of Anthony, a Black man later known as Antoni Swart, who was among the first colonists of New Sweden which centered on Fort Christina in present-day Wilmington, Del.

Employees help to make the site “the perfect wedding location.”

Town’s oldest–known commercial building with intact historic-fabric was built in the 1840s.

Book provides a photographic history of the architecture of Wilmington, Del.’s business district between 1984 and today.

Final date to submit comments is July 30, 2014.

Family members enjoyed a program on the true story of one of their ancestors—James Summers, a free Black man who manumitted his own children in 1797.

Oct. 4, 2014 program to focus on one of the pioneers in the music industry: Emile Berliner.

Division seeks input on its finding that the selected projects will not adversely affect historic properties.

The Delaware State Review Board for Historic Preservation held its annual spring meeting at The Old State House in Dover on April 9, 2014.