December 7 – Delaware's #1!!

nPostednon December 7, 2016

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nDelawarenis #49 out of 50 in size (area).

nIt’sn#45 out of 50 in population.

nIt’sn#8 out of 50 in economies (according to a 2014 Business Insider article). n

nSonwhy am I claiming that Delaware is #1?

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nDelawarenwas the first of the 13 colonies to ratify the new U.S. Constitution,non this date in 1787. So it is ranked #1 out of 50 in admission tonthe nation!

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n Andnthat is why one of its nicknames is “The First State.”
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nWhatnelse makes Delaware special?

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nFirstnof all, this state is so small, it has no national parks / seashoresn/ historic sites / monuments / whatever that are entirely inside ofnthe state. The only parts of the National Park System that are insidenDelaware are two National Historic Trails that cross many states andna National Historical Park – called First State – that includesn220 acres of woods and pastures in Delaware County, Pennsylvania!

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nAndnone of Delaware’s towns, Delmar, is partly in the neighboring statenof Maryland.

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nThatnspillover-the-border thing isn’t that unusual in a large city likenKansas City (there’s a Kansas City, Kansas, and a Kansas City,nMissouri, which straddle the state border) – but it’s an oddity inna really small town. In 2010, Delmar only had about 4,600 residents –nso it is about the size of my old high school!

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NewnSweden, founded in 1638, was the first permanent colony in Delaware.nAs a matter of fact, the first log cabins built in the New World werenbuilt in Delaware by those Swedish settlers. At the time, Finland wasnpart of Sweden, so those log-cabin-building settlers were actuallynFinns, and some people credit Finland as the original home of the logncabin, although Americans often think of it as an American icon.

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