2024 – Fourth Quarter Accessions
The Accessions Committee met on October 23, 2024, to review proposed accessions. New accessions include records from Delaware high school commencements and a book titled Delaware from Freeways to E-Ways by Dave Tabler.
Caesar Rodney School District
KC-116: State Consolidated District No. 1 was authorized and created on July 1, 1915. Seven months later, on February 28, 1916, voters of the district approved the request of the State Board of Education by a vote of 52 to 1 to bond together schools in the towns of Camden and Wyoming, creating Delaware’s first-ever […]
Caesar Rodney
Born on October 7, 1728, on a farm east of Dover, Caesar Rodney was one of Delaware’s most distinguished statesmen. Entering public life at an early age, Rodney held numerous local offices. He was a member of the Colonial State Assembly, and a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress. From 1774 through 1776 he was […]
Geographic Center of Delaware
In 1989, a curious seventh grader from the Caesar Rodney School District asked where the center of Delaware was located. With the help of his teacher and the Kent County Department of Planning, it was determined that the geographic center of the state was located approximately eleven miles south of Dover in the field just […]
