The State of Delaware Historical Markers Program

The State of Delaware Historical Markers Program is a Delaware historical marker in Dover, Kent County, dedicated 2025.

Kent County · dedicated 2025 · 121 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd N, Dover

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Governor C. Douglass Buck appointed a committee in 1929 to review Delaware’s notable historic sites and develop a way to identify them. In 1931, the General Assembly of Delaware passed and Governor Buck signed House Bill No. 62, an act establishing the Historic Markers Commission to erect historical markers across the state with the intent to indicate “points of historic interest throughout the State.” Administration of the State of Delaware Historical Markers Program was transferred from State Museums to the Delaware Public Archives in 1990.

TodayHistorical map

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USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection

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under a mile from where William Gabby lived in the 1760s

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Source: State of Delaware Historical Markers Program, administered by the Delaware Public Archives.
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