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Date Posted: Tuesday, April 11th, 2023

Are you an educator looking to expand history lessons into relevant experiences? Let us help!


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Date Posted: Friday, August 20th, 2021

Archaeology and landscape-design projects to help tell the stories of African Americans who lived and died at the John Dickinson Plantation.


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Date Posted: Thursday, April 30th, 2020

Historic-site interpreter served for 25 years.


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Date Posted: Thursday, November 15th, 2018

Division volunteer honored for his work in developing programming at the Zwaanendael Museum and expanding its outreach beyond Lewes into Sussex County.


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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 6th, 2019

A Great Worthy of the Revolution John Dickinson is known as “The Penman of the Revolution” because he was able to put on paper the thoughts and ideals which formed the foundation for our brand new country. John Dickinson was a man trained by scholars. He used his knowledge to think for himself. His pen […]


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Date Posted: Thursday, June 8th, 2023

November 2, 1732 – John Dickinson was born in Talbot County, Maryland. January 18, 1740 – Dickinson family moved into the mansion in Kent County, Delaware. December 1753 – John Dickinson arrived in London and spent four years studying law at the Middle Temple Inns of Court. 1757 – John Dickinson returned to America and […]


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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 6th, 2019

The John Dickinson Plantation was home to a variety of people. We share the stories of the tenant farmers, indentured servants, free and enslaved Black men, women, and children who lived, labored, and died on the plantation. John Dickinson was a framer and signer of the U.S. Constitution and was known as the “Penman of […]


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Date Posted: Wednesday, August 16th, 2017

“Thunder Over Dover” is a free, two-day event that will feature aerial demonstrations, displays of current and historical aircraft, and more.


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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 6th, 2019

Welcome Center Five Stories: The People and Families of the Plantation “Five Stories” explores the lives of a wide variety of people who lived in the late-18th- to early-19th-centuries on the plantation of John Dickinson, one of the founding fathers of the United States, signer of the U.S. Constitution and “Penman of the Revolution.” Panels […]


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Date Posted: Wednesday, June 15th, 2022

Museum honored for its project “Search, Discovery, and Interpretation of the African Burial Ground at the John Dickinson Plantation.”


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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 24th, 2021

A Site of Conscience is a place of memory that confronts both the history of what happened there and its contemporary legacies.


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Date Posted: Monday, February 1st, 2021

Project supported, in part, by a $5,000 grant from
the National Trust for Historic Preservation.


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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 6th, 2019

The Johnson Victrola Museum highlights the history of the Victor Talking Machine Company, which pioneered the development of the sound-recording industry and was founded by Delaware’s native son, Eldridge Reeves Johnson. The Johnson Victrola Museum is a tribute to Delaware’s native son, Eldridge Reeves Johnson, who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901. Exhibits […]


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Date Posted: Wednesday, December 20th, 2017

Museum showcases E.R. Johnson and his contributions to the sound-recording industry.


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Date Posted: Friday, May 20th, 2016

Museum will re-open on July 1, 2016 after completion of construction activities.


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Date Posted: Friday, August 3rd, 2012

Last February, we shared a “behind-the-scenes” glimpse of a film crew from the National Geographic Channel working on a segment from their new show, America’s Lost Treasures, at the Johnson Victrola Museum. For those of you who didn’t get to see the finished product’s premiere last Wednesday, here’s a taste of what you missed: Has […]


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