Take the Road Less Traveled Through Delaware's Bayshore Byway
This spring and summer, take in the views of Kent County's coastal marshes, visit historic sites and more on the Bayshore Byway.
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This spring and summer, take in the views of Kent County's coastal marshes, visit historic sites and more on the Bayshore Byway.
Delaware News Journal A single sentence from an old family document suggested that a slave burial ground with as many as 400 graves existed somewhere on Delaware's historic John Dickinson Plantation. Until this March, there was fear the graveyard of the slaves who lived, worked and died on the plantation was lost to history. But on March 9, researchers for the Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs believe they found a burial ground of "enslaved individuals and other African Americans" in a remote site on the John Dickinson Plantation. They are now are grappling with the responsibili...