Dover, Delaware Dover, Delaware City of Dover Flag of Dover, Delaware Etymology: Dover, Kent in England Dover is positioned in Delaware Dover - Dover Location inside the state of Delaware Dover (/ do v r/) is the capital and second-largest city in the U.S.
It is also the governmental center of county of Kent County, and the principal town/city of the Dover, DE Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Kent County and is part of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD Combined Statistical Area.
It was titled by William Penn for Dover in Kent, England.
Dover was established as the court town for newly established Kent County in 1683 by William Penn, the proprietor of the territory generally known as the "Lower Counties on the Delaware." The capital of the state of Delaware was moved here from New Castle in 1777 because of its central locale and relative safety from British raiders on the Delaware River.
Because of an act passed in October 1779, the assembly propel to meet at any place in the state they saw fit, meeting successively in Wilmington, Lewes, Dover, New Castle, and Lewes again, until it finally settled down permanently in Dover in October 1781. The city's central square, known as The Green, was the locale of many rallies, troop reviews, and other patriotic affairs.
To this day, The Green remains the heart of Dover's historic precinct and is the locale of the Delaware Supreme Court and the Kent County Courthouse.
Dover was most famously the home of Caesar Rodney, the prominent wartime prestige of Delaware amid the American Revolution.
He is known to have been buried outside Dover, but the precise locale of his grave is unknown.
Dover and Kent County were deeply divided over the copy of slavery, and the town/city was a "stop" on the Underground Railroad because of its adjacency to slave-holding Maryland and no-charge Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
The Bradford-Loockerman House, Building 1301, Dover Air Force Base, John Bullen House, Carey Farm Site, Christ Church, Delaware State Museum Buildings, John Dickinson House, Dover Green Historic District, Eden Hill, Delaware Governor's Mansion, Greenwold, Hughes-Willis Site, Loockerman Hall, Macomb Farm, Mifflin-Marim Agricultural Complex, Old Statehouse, Palmer Home, Town Point, Tyn Head Court, and Victorian Dover Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Astronaut photography of Dover, Delaware taken from the International Space Station (ISS) Dover is positioned at 39 09 29 N 75 31 28 W (39.1581680, 75.5243682). Dover averages 2300 hours of sunlight annually.
Climate data for Dover, Delaware (1981 2010 normals) Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 2.2 1.9 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 5.3 In 2010, Dover had a populace of 36,047 citizens .
In the town/city of Dover the age distribution of the populace shows 23.5% under the age of 18, 15.7% from 18 to 24, 27.9% from 25 to 44, 19.5% from 45 to 64, and 13.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
Dover is governed via the manager-council fitness with an propel mayor, presently Robin R.
Federally, Dover is part of Delaware's At-large congressional district, represented by Democrat Lisa Blunt Rochester, propel in 2016.
The state's senior member of the United States Senate is Democrat Tom Carper, propel in 2000.
The state's junior member of the United States Senate is Democrat Chris Coons, propel in 2010.
Delaware's biggest employer is also Dover's the state government.
A large portion, but not all, of the state's agencycracy is positioned in and around Dover.
However, like some other American states, Delaware's capital is not its biggest city.
Consequently, Wilmington, in the northern part of the state and its biggest city, has many state offices and employees one would normally expect to find in the state capital, including the command posts of the Office of the Attorney General, especially as many large American corporations maintain nominal offices in that town/city to register their Delaware corporation.
Dover is one of the fast-growing areas in the state of Delaware, due in large part to the mostly low cost of living.
Apart from the state and county governments, Dover's momentous employers include Dover Air Force Base, positioned inside the southeast city-limits of the city.
ILC Dover, in close-by Frederica, is the producer of fabrics for military and aerospace uses, along with being the major contractor for manufacturing of the Apollo and Skylab spacesuits, as well as the spacesuit assembly for the Space Shuttle's Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU).
Two weekends a year, NASCAR competitions are held at Dover International Speedway, attracting close to 100,000 spectators and visitors and temporarily making Dover the state's biggest city.
These competitions, and in recent years adjoining slot machine gambling at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino, contribute millions of dollars to Dover's economy.
Firefly Music Festival is held in The Woodlands of Dover International Speedway every summer since 2012.
Dover is the only state capital in the United States with a volunteer fire department.
The chief north south highway through Dover is U.S.
Route 13, which runs through the chief commercial strip of Dover on the multi-lane, divided Dupont Highway.
Route 13 Alternate, passes through downtown Dover on Governors Avenue.
The Delaware Route 1 turnpike, which provides the chief route to Wilmington and the Delaware beaches, passes to the east of Dover.
It ends near the Dover Air Force Base and DE 1 continues south on Bay Road.
Route 113 formerly ran along Bay Road from Milford to US 13 near the State Capitol Complex, however it was decommissioned in 2004 to avoid the concurrency with DE 1 between the Dover Air Force Base and Milford.
Delaware Route 8 is the chief east west route through Dover, passing through downtown on Division Street and West Dover on Forrest Avenue.
It continues west toward Maryland to furnish access to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Dover is one of only four state capitals not served by an Interstate highway.
Dover Air Force Base is positioned inside the southeast city-limits of Dover.
Airports near Dover with commercial air service include the Wicomico Regional Airport in Salisbury, Maryland, the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia.
Other airports near Dover include Chandelle Estates Airport to the northeast of the city, Delaware Airpark near Cheswold, and Jenkins Airport near Wyoming.
Dover is positioned on a former Pennsylvania Railroad line, later directed by Penn Central, Conrail, and Norfolk Southern and now served by the Delmarva Central Railroad. At one time Dover had a daily Amtrak passenger service; however, the line now is just used for small-town freight.
DART First State provides small-town bus service throughout Dover and Kent County, radiating from the Dover Transit Center in downtown.
Dover is home to Delaware State University, a land-grant college and Delaware's only historically black university, and Wesley College.
Dover also has satellite locations of the University of Delaware and Wilmington University.
Three enhance high schools serve Dover residents.
Caesar Rodney High School, in the Caesar Rodney School District (located just outside the town/city in Camden); Dover High School, in the Capital School District; and Polytech High School, in the Polytech School District (located in Woodside).
The Dover Air Force Base Middle School is positioned on the premises of the Dover Air Force Base.
The former Dover Opera House, assembled in 1904, was renovated and converted to the Schwartz Center for the Arts, which hosts performances by the Dover Symphony Orchestra, ballet, and classic films.
Dover is also home to The Children's Theatre, Inc.
of Dover and Kent County, a non-profit organization.
The Delaware State Library, the Delaware State Museum, and the Delaware State Archives are in downtown Dover and are open to the enhance for research and browsing.
In Dover's historical precinct is the Sewell C.
See also: List of newspapers in Delaware, List of airways broadcasts in Delaware, and List of tv stations in Delaware Two newspapers are headquartered in Dover, the Dover Post, printed weekly and online, and the daily Delaware State News.
Kent County is inside the Philadelphia tv market, with the small-town Comcast fitness carrying most channels from that city, alongside Salisbury stations WBOC-TV (CBS), WMDT (ABC) and WCPB (PBS), plus low-powered Rehoboth Beach NBC partner WRDE-LD. WBOC-TV maintains a agency in Dover, and WHYY-TV maintains a studio and transmitting facility in Dover.
Delaware was the last state in the country to have an NPR station positioned inside its borders.
Radio stations in the Dover, Delaware market NASCAR racing at Dover International Speedway Dover International Speedway is home to two NASCAR race weekends, one in the late spring and one in the early fall.
Within Dover International Speedway is Dover Downs, a harness horse racing track, hotel and casino.
The Delaware State Hornets compete in NCAA Division I, with football competing at the FCS level of Division I, as a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference made up of other historically black universities and universities.
For one week amid the middle of July every year, Dover also hosts the Big League (Little League 16-18) Eastern Regionals, attracting squads from all of New England and the Mid-Atlantic.
There are a several golf courses positioned near Dover.
They include the Maple Dale Country Club in Dover, Wild Quail Country Club near Camden, Jonathan's Landing Golf Course near Magnolia, Dover Center Par 3 and Driving Range in Dover, and the Dover Air Base Golf Course (Must have military I.D.) on the Dover Air Force Base.
Historically, Dover hosted a farm team of the Philadelphia Phillies in the Eastern Shore Baseball League.
In 2008 Sporting News ranked Dover 215th in its list of the 400 Best Sports Cities based on the year October 2007 October 2008, a year which saw high attendance for the NASCAR competitions and Delaware State's football team making its first FCS tournament appearance. Nathan Macias, Texas politician and former commander of the 436th Civil Engineer Squadron at Dover Air Force Base Mabel Lloyd Ridgely, suffragist and historical preservationist, based in Dover Rob Tornoe, nationally syndicated, award-winning cartoonist who attended Dover High School "Populations of Delaware (DE) Cities ranked by Population Size".
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