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Date Posted: Wednesday, September 10th, 2014

Exhibit explores His Majesty’s Sloop of War DeBraak, a British warship that was capsized and lost off the Delaware coast on May 25, 1798.


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Date Posted: Thursday, May 26th, 2016

Tours explore the surviving hull section of this 18th-century shipwreck.


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Date Posted: Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018

Event will include scholarly presentations on My Lord’s Gift, a 17th century archaeological site in Queenstown, Md.; and the Coleman Farm, Reedy Island and Fort Casimir sites in Delaware.


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Date Posted: Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

Last November, HCA announced an initiative to begin conservation work on the hull of the HMB DeBraak. One of the conservation team’s most urgent objectives was to improve the hull’s support-system and to add a water-filtration system that cleans the water that is used to keep the hull wet. Over the last several weeks, HCA […]


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Date Posted: Monday, December 5th, 2022

Over the last five years, archaeologists have learned a lot more about the 11 burials found at Avery’s Rest near Rehoboth Beach. Find out what they have discovered thanks to modern-day technology and DNA testing.


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Date Posted: Thursday, January 25th, 2018

Highlights include programs on African-American life at the John Dickinson Plantation in the 18th century, the evolution of Black recorded music and African-American archaeology in Delaware.


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Date Posted: Thursday, June 2nd, 2016

Division archaeologist honored for outstanding contributions to the society.


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Date Posted: Monday, February 26th, 2018

Archaeologist served in the Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs’ State Historic Preservation Office.


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Date Posted: Wednesday, May 15th, 2019

Program designed to meet Next Generation science standards as well as Common Core state standards for art and history.


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Date Posted: Wednesday, December 13th, 2017

Findings shed light on 11 burials dating to the late 1600s including three people of African descent.


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Date Posted: Wednesday, May 15th, 2019

Archaeological investigation seeks to find evidence of the fort originally built by Dutch settlers in 1651.


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Date Posted: Monday, March 27th, 2017

Program seeks to identify the uniqueness of the Colonial cultures in the Delaware Valley in the 17th and 18th centuries.


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Date Posted: Monday, April 18th, 2016

Program seeks to identify the uniqueness of the early colonial cultures in the region.


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Date Posted: Thursday, February 14th, 2019

New employee has 39 years of experience in archaeology and historic preservation.


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Date Posted: Friday, March 10th, 2023

Day-long series of activities to highlight archaeological investigations, historical research and related topics for the state and surrounding areas.


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Date Posted: Friday, November 2nd, 2012

By Alice Guerrant, Historic Archaeologist Have you been on The Green in Dover lately? The east side has mounds of dirt, equipment running around, and a lot of construction going on. It looks like a mess now, but the Division’s project will soon improve the sidewalks and landscaping in front of the Old State House […]


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