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In observance of Labor Day, the Archives will be closed on Monday, September 7th. We will return to normal business hours on Tuesday, September 8th. Learn more about this alert.
County seat since 1680. William Penn, in 1683, ordered town site laid out and named Dover. Plotted in 1717. Temporary capital in 1777 and permanent capital since 1779. Federal Constitution ratified here in 1787, making Delaware first State in Union. State Constitutional Conventions held here in 1791-1792, 1831, 1852, and 1897.
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