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Coleman du Pont's big idea that transformed Delaware: A highway running across the state
Delmarva Now | The Daily Times via Yahoo News· 2 months agoT. Coleman du Pont strode across the stage at the Dover Opera House, home to vaudeville shows,...
Delaware's Gilded Age: Here's a guide to 15 du Pont family estates
Delaware Online | The News Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDelaware's prominent and influential du Pont family, one of the wealthiest in America, has long been...
Irénée du Pont, patriarch of Delaware's du Pont family, dead at 103
Delaware Online | The News Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIrénée du Pont Jr., the patriarch of Delaware's prominent, wealthy and influential du Pont family,...
How Coleman Du Pont's highway became a model for US interstates
Delmarva Now | The Daily Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoOn May 19, 1926, the Smyrna Times reported that Delaware Lt. Gov. James Hall Anderson, speaking...
Du Pont's 'greatest gift' to Delaware also paved way for timely hooch deliveries
Delmarva Now | The Daily Times via Yahoo News· 10 months ago“Tomorrow morning, with no more ceremony than the post of a notice,” the Wilmington Sunday Morning...
North Jersey home built for man who helped finance Empire State Building is on the market
The Bergen Record via Yahoo Finance· 2 months agoYears before he became one of the Empire State Building's key financiers, an East Coast...
Is the Newly Reinvented Boca Raton One of the Best Resorts in the U.S.—Again?
Town & Country via Yahoo News· 10 months agoIs Boca Raton One of the Best Resorts in the U.S.?The Boca Raton Confession: Sprawling resort...
Never-seen Andrew Wyeths on display near Wilmington, with hundreds more to come
Delaware Online | The News Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoYou don’t know Andrew Wyeth. You might think you do, but you don’t. At least, that’s the impression you get talking to William Coleman, curator of the Brandywine Museum of Art’s huge new trove ...
Rosedale: 100 Years The rise of 'Fighting Joe' Cauffiel
The Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown, Pa. via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAug. 26—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Johnstown Mayor Joseph Cauffiel rose to power a century ago as a sort of Rust Belt revivalist. Branding himself as an agent for the city's mostly Protestant public, ...
Rest Takes Hard Work
Time via Yahoo News· 4 months agoCredit - Getty Images There are few things better for us than regular rest. Whether it's breaks during the day, hobbies that take our mind off work,...
