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The page last updated June 14, 2010

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Historic Fort Delaware

Fort Delaware Society Volunteer Brigade  An opportunity for "hands on work"!

Travel directions - Fort Delaware State Park website, photos of the "Three Forts Ferry"

New   2nd Annual Victorian KidsFest Sunday, June 13, 2010. Event photos.

New   4H Seeing Eye Puppy Raiser Club  Sunday, June 13, 2010. Visitor photos.

Manor College Civil War Institute Event  August 15, 2009

Wal-Mart Fund Raising Presentation   September 3, 2009

Newark, Delaware Community Day  September 20, 2009

Finns Point National Cemetery  See recent photos of Finns Point Nature Trail

Fort DuPont  A Brief History

    

Society Pages

Officers and Directors of the Society  2010

Annual Meeting Photos - Sunday, March 7, 2010

Headquarters, Archives & Library   Appointments, Maps & Directions

Headquarters, Archives & Library will open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to visitors without appointment on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month during the winter season. Knowledgeable Society researchers will be available to help you.

Society Newsletter  May 2010 issue plus archived past issues.

Fort Delaware Notes  Table of Contents for issues through February 2010

History of the Fort Delaware Society  by Society Board Member Kay Keenan.

Society Fundraising

Donations, membership dues, and purchase payments can be submitted through  PayPal.

New    Dairy Queen Fundraising - Thursday, June 17, 2010, 5PM to 8PM.

Click link and print out flyer to be presented at Newark Dairy Queen.

20% of your purchase at the window will go to the Fort Delaware Society.

First Annual Wine Tasting  Saturday, May 8, 2010. Event Photos.

General Operating Fund   Contribution Form.

Descendant's Certificates  Available to the General Public.

Membership  A membership established today is good through the end of 2010.

Publications & Merchandise    PayPal Shopping Cart now available.

Society Restoration Projects   Slide presentation on rare six-pounder field guns.

Society Interpretive Projects    Visitor's Center Scale Model of Pea Patch Island

Volunteer Work Detail - Sutler Shop Set Up  April 19, 2008

 

The Fort Delaware Fund

Research Topics

Heritage Research  Prisoner and Garrison Member Queries and sample photos.

Garrison Units at Fort Delaware   From PA, DE, MD, OH, NY & MA.

Going Home - A Discharge Time Line (April 1865 - December 1865)

A Recommended Reading List

Civilian Detainees

Company Q (Union prisoners under sentence of army courts-martial)

Galvanized Yankees (Confederate POWs who took the Oath and joined the Union army)

The Immortal 600

The Guns of Fort Delaware

 

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