It was founded 1683 by that famous man William Penn. In 1717, it became official with the area being 125 acres.
This fine state of Delaware grows a variety of fruits and vegetables, as well as corn, potatoes, and soybeans.
On the seal, is a soldier with a rifle in his hands, a farmer with a hoe, that are facing each other with scroll work enclosed with an ox, a wheat sheaf, and a ear of corn.
It is one of the principal states of the South and is often referred to as the Heart of Dixie.
The state capital, Montgomery, became the provisional capital of the Confederate States of America in 1861 and is popularly known as the Cradle of the Confederacy.
From plateaus and uplands in the northeastern section of the state, the land slopes gradually southward across forested ridges, rolling prairie, and fertile valleys to the delta of the Mobile River on an arm of the Gulf of Mexico.