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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...
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...
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,...
Is the Newly Reinvented Boca Raton One of the Best Resorts in the U.S.—Again?
Town & Country via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIs Boca Raton One of the Best Resorts in the U.S.?The Boca Raton Confession: Sprawling resort...
Rosedale: 100 Years The rise of 'Fighting Joe' Cauffiel
The Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown, Pa. via Yahoo News· 8 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, ...
