Category: Delaware
The Only State with a Circular Border
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/24Mar25-The-Only-State-with-a-Circular-Border.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What is the only U.S. state with a circle, or arc, as part of its boundary? There’s only one and…
On Trial on the Underground Railroad
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/21Mar25-On-Trial-on-the-Underground-Railroad.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Underground Railroad was not only a dangerous journey for blacks escaping slavery, but there were also consequences for those…
Delaware Declares Its Independence
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/20Mar25-Delaware-Declares-Independence.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When is Independence Day? Most of us would say July 4th, but for residents of this state, it’s a few…
The Battle for Delaware
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/03/18Mar25-Zach-Arend-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of the early Europeans settlement of what became the Unites States, you probably don’t think of a…
The Lewes, Delaware Sideshow
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/04Oct24-Lewes-Sideshow.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many a circus has it’s main acts and then has a sideshow to entice people to pay to see unusual…
A Great Treasure Hunt
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/03Oct24-Delawares-Sunken-Treasure-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was a great treasure hunt taking place off the shore of Lewes, Delaware. The real treasure though was perhaps…
Delaware’s Sunken Treasure
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/02Oct24-Delawares-Sunken-Treasure-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When a British ship sank off the coast of Delaware in the late 1700s, some of the crew was lost…
The First Town in the First State
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/09/01Oct24-First-Town-in-the-First-State.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s referred to as the first town in the country’s first state…that first state being the first one to ratify…
A Contemporary of Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/25Mar24-John-Dickinson-Plantation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was a founding father – a contemporary of men like Washington, Jefferson and Franklin. We know that he talked,…
Letters from a Farmer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/22Mar24-John-Dickinson-Plantation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are known as “Letters from a Farmer.” Perhaps you have not heard of them, but if you lived in…
