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Delaware's historical markers, on the maps of their own eras

Markers from the State of Delaware Historical Markers Program now have permanent pages at TreeAlive, placing their full inscriptions on georeferenced maps from the periods they commemorate. The Delaware Public Archives has drafted the text of every state marker since 1931.

691marker pages live
82,000+historical map sheets
State of Delaware Historical Markers Program, administered by the Delaware Public Archivescredited on every page

Every dot is a live page. Click one to preview it or add it to a road trip. Prefer a list? Browse all 691 markers by county.

Featured markers

Block House
1654–1777
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Duck Creek Hundred
1869
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Ryves Holt, In this house lived
1696–1763
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Delaware Public Archives
1818–1938
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What a Delaware family sees

TreeAlive maps family trees. When a visitor's ancestors lived in Delaware, the markers standing near those places surface automatically alongside their family's journey:

Block House · a few streets from where a family lived in the 1850s · the 1654 New Sweden blockhouse at Naamans, the only house remaining from the Swedish colony

A marker stops being a roadside plaque and becomes a destination with a personal reason to visit. Open the live demo tree, choose the Crossings tab, and turn on Historical Markers to see the experience working (the demo family’s markers are in Pennsylvania; a Delaware family sees Delaware’s).

QR-ready, from day one

Every marker page has print-ready QR artwork. A scan at the sign opens the marker's page on the period map, no app to install. The artwork files are available to the program and its sign vendors; TreeAlive does no printing or installation.

Marker page links are permanent: identifiers are never reassigned, so a code printed today resolves for good.

QR code opening the Block House marker page Scan: a Delaware marker page

Find a marker

Browsing all 691 markers by county.

Kent County 144
New Castle County 268
Sussex County 279