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State House DE15

Picture Courtesy of Jimmy Emerson

Built in 1792 and restored in 1976, it was shared by the State and Kent County from 1792 until 1873. Prior to the construction of this building, an older county courthouse stood on the same site. That small brick structure, about twenty five feet square, had been built in 1722. On July 29, 1776, the Declaration of Indedpendence was read from it's porch for the first time to the people of Dover. The outline in paving bricks behind you marks that historic porch. The general assembly moved to Legislative Hall in January 1933.

In front of the old State House on the Green in Dover Kent County Delaware


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