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Encyclopedia > Delaware River (Kansas)

The Delaware River in Kansas is located in the North-Eastern part of the state. The Delaware River basin drains 1117 square miles from the outflow of the Perry Lake (reservoir). The river was classified as a Catergory 1 wastershed by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, meaning that the watershed was in need of immediate restoration and protection. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Perry Lake Township is a township located in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, USA. By the 2000 census, the township had a total population of 237. ...


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Delaware - definition of Delaware in Encyclopedia (1075 words)
The deed to the property that is now Delaware was granted to William Penn in 1682, by James, Duke of York (later, James II of England), and was part of the colony of Pennsylvania.
Delaware is bounded to the north by Pennsylvania, to the east by the Delaware River and the Atlantic Ocean and to the west and south by Maryland.
The Delaware River is a major river in the eastern United States, rising in New York State, forming the boundary between New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and emptying into Delaware Bay, which separates New Jersey from the state of Delaware.
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At the second Treaty of Lancaster (1748) with the Iroquois, Shawnee, and Delaware, the governor of Pennsylvania urged the Iroquois to "remove the petticoat" from the Delaware and restore the Ohio tribes to the covenant chain as a barrier against the French.
The 1,000 Delaware in Indiana had no doubt what the outcome would be of a confrontation with the State of Indiana and, at the St. Marys Treaty in October, 1818, ceded their Indiana lands and agreed to move west of the Mississippi.
Delaware hunting parties were attacked: by Santee Sioux near Des Moines, Iowa in 1841; Sioux and Cheyenne on the Smokey Hill River in Kansas in 1845; and by Sioux on the upper Platte in 1852.
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