DELAWARE 



1748 



DELCASSfi 



Hocking Valley railroads, and on two inter- 

 urban lines. Delaware was named for the 

 tribe of Indians of that name. It was laid 

 out in 1808, incorporated as a town in 1815 

 and as a city in 1827. The area is four square 

 miles. The population, practically all Amer- 

 ican, was 9,076 in 1910 and 9.790 in 1916. 



Delaware is the seat of the Ohio Wesleyan 

 University (Methodist Episcopal), opened in 

 1844. Gray Chapel, the main building, was 

 erected in 1892 at a cost of $350,000. The city 

 has a Federal building, erected in 1910 at a 

 cost of $75,000, a Carnegie Library and two 

 attractive parks. 



The industrial enterprises include manufac- 

 tures of clay products, gas engines, shoes, cigars 

 and garments; the city also has railroad shops, 

 foundries and limestone quarries. There is a 

 lively trade in the agricultural and stock-raising 

 products of the surrounding country. In the 

 city are sulphur and other mineral springs, 

 whose waters are utilized for medicinal pur- 

 poses. One of the finest sanitariums in the 

 state is located here. 



Delaware was the birthplace of Rutherford 

 B. Hayes, President of the United States from 

 1877 to 188.1. The house in which he was born 

 stands opposite the city hall (see HAYES, 

 RUTHERFORD B., for illustration). W.D.T. 



DELAWARE, or DELAWARR, THOMAS 

 WEST, Lord (1577-1618), an English nobleman 

 of colonial fame, the first governor of Virginia 

 colony, in whose honor the state of Delaware 

 and Delaware River and Bay were named. 

 At the age of twenty-five he succeeded to his 

 father's estate and title and became a member 

 of Queen Elizabeth's Privy Council. Having 

 become interested in the plans for the coloniza- 

 tion of the new lands in America, he was 

 chosen a member of the Council of Virginia in 

 1609, and on June 10, 1610, arrived at James- 

 town as the first governor of the Virginia 

 colonists. He first persuaded the discouraged 

 settlers to give up the idea of returning to 

 England, and then set himself to the task of 

 bringing order and prosperity to the weak 

 settlement. In this he succeeded admirably, 

 though he was much given to pomp and dis- 

 play. 



After founding a settlement on the site of 

 the modern Hampton, and building forts Henry 

 and Charles, Lord Delaware started for the 

 West Indies in 1611 to restore his failing health, 

 but was driven -by a storm into the river which 

 now bears his name. He then returned to 

 London, where he published his Relation of 



the Condition of Affairs in Virginia. In 1618, 

 while on a second voyage to America, he died. 



DELAWARE BAY, a large bay or arm of 

 the Atlantic Ocean, lying between the states 

 of Delaware and New Jersey. It is about forty 

 miles long and thirty-five miles at its greatest 

 width, and has a channel depth of thirty to 

 sixty feet through its entire length. The bay 

 is of great commercial importance, as it en- 

 ables ocean-going vessels to reach Philadelphia, 

 which lies on the Delaware River a few miles 

 above the point of its entrance into the bay. 

 Philadelphia contends with New Orleans for 

 the rank of second seaport in the country, 

 New York holding first place. At the entrance 

 of the bay, near Cape Henlppen, the Federal 

 government has built a large breakwater to 

 provide shelter for vessels, at a cost of $3,000,- 

 000. Lighthouses have also been erected to 

 warn ships of shoal water. 



DELAWARE WATER GAP, a narrow gorge 

 about three miles long, in the Kittatinny 

 Mountains, sixty-five miles west of New York, 

 close to the boundary between New Jersey and 

 Pennsylvania, but in the latter state. This 



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gorge, or canypn, was worn through the solid 

 rock of the Appalachian range many ages ago 

 by the Delaware River when it was slowly 

 forcing its way to the sea. The rocky walls 

 on either side are very steep and high, rising 

 almost perpendicularly 1,400 feet above the 

 water. The scenery is very beautiful, and the 

 surroundings are restful, two facts which com- 

 bine to make Delaware Water Gap one of the 

 most popular resorts in America. 

 DELCASSfi, delkasa', THEOPHILE (1852- 

 ), a French statesman who was instru- 

 mental in developing a friendly understanding 

 or "entente" among France, Russia and Eng- 

 land, which cemented their interests when the 



