Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Four Items From the Delaware Public Archives
From This Day In Delaware History
1856 The ceremony for the opening of the Delaware Railroad in Seaford was subdued somewhat due to torrential rains and strong southwest winds.
1863 Annie Jump Cannon, later a nationally famous astronomer at Harvard, was born in Dover.
1925 A new stoplight was installed in Laurel. A red sign was for stop, blue was to go straight ahead or make a right turn, and yellow was for a left turn.
1944 The US Army, headquartered in Dover's Richardson Hotel, seized chicken trucks up and down the state in order to guarantee adequate food supplies for the armed forces and their wartime needs.
Today's facts were compiled by historian Roger Martin and brought to you by the Delaware Public Archives.
It is interesting that Laurel's love for traffic lights extend back to at least 1925.
And once the railroad pushed past Seaford in 1856 Delmar would be put on the map.
Annie Jump Cannon of Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me fame was of course a noted astonomer known for examining the spectra of stars.
1856 The ceremony for the opening of the Delaware Railroad in Seaford was subdued somewhat due to torrential rains and strong southwest winds.
1863 Annie Jump Cannon, later a nationally famous astronomer at Harvard, was born in Dover.
1925 A new stoplight was installed in Laurel. A red sign was for stop, blue was to go straight ahead or make a right turn, and yellow was for a left turn.
1944 The US Army, headquartered in Dover's Richardson Hotel, seized chicken trucks up and down the state in order to guarantee adequate food supplies for the armed forces and their wartime needs.
Today's facts were compiled by historian Roger Martin and brought to you by the Delaware Public Archives.
It is interesting that Laurel's love for traffic lights extend back to at least 1925.
And once the railroad pushed past Seaford in 1856 Delmar would be put on the map.
Annie Jump Cannon of Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me fame was of course a noted astonomer known for examining the spectra of stars.
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