Delaware (disambiguation)
Appearance
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Delaware may refer to:
Title of Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, after whom the following were named:
- Delaware, the U.S. state
- Delaware Colony, English colony (1664–1707) then British colony (1707–76) preceding statehood
- Lenape, the Native American tribe also known as the Delaware
- Delaware Nation, a Native American tribe in Oklahoma
- Lenape language, the Algonquian language of the Lenape tribe
- Delaware River, a major river in the eastern United States
- Delaware Bay, tidal inlet which separates New Jersey from the state of Delaware; fed by the Delaware River
- Delaware Lake, a lake in Delaware County, New York
- University of Delaware, a private university
Places
[edit]United States
[edit]- Delaware City, Delaware
- Delaware, Indiana
- Delaware, Iowa
- Delaware River (Kansas)
- Delaware, Michigan
- Delaware, Missouri
- Delaware, New York
- Delaware, Ohio
- Delaware, Oklahoma
- Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania
- Delaware Falls, one of 24 named waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania
- West Point, Virginia, formerly known as Delaware
Canada
[edit]Ships
[edit]- USS Delaware, the name of various United States Navy ships
- NOAAS Delaware II (R 445), a United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries research ship in service since 1968
- Delaware (fireboat), in service in Philadelphia (1950-), see Fireboats of Philadelphia
Other
[edit]- "Delaware" (song) a popular song from 1959 with puns on the names of the American states
- Delaware (band)
- Delaware (album) first album by Drop Nineteens
- Delaware (chicken), breed of chicken from the state
- Blue Hen of Delaware, other breed of chicken from the state
- Delaware General Corporation Law
- Delaware (grape)
- Delaware St. John, an adventure game series
- Delaware Basin, a geologic depositional and structural basin in West Texas and southern New Mexico
- Delaware Plan, a proposed system to reorganize the state's presidential elections