Your annual membership fee entitles you to a 10% member’s discount on goods purchased at the Society’s Sutler Shop inside Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island, or on goods ordered by phone or by mail from Society headquarters. Eventually, we plan to offer sales via the Internet, but this option has not yet been developed. You must show your membership card at the Sutler Shop to get this discount. The Fort Delaware State Park gift shop in Delaware City where you purchase tickets for the boat ride over to Pea Patch Island is not a Society operation and goods purchased there are not subject to this Society member’s discount.

You will receive a copy of the annual issue of Fort Delaware Notes. The Notes are initially distributed to Society members at our first meeting of the year, normally held in early February. Those members “in good standing” but not able to attend the winter meeting receive their copy by mail within 4-6 weeks of the meeting. New members joining during the year will receive a copy of the current issue.

You will receive copies of the Society’s newsletters (spring and fall) highlighting Society activities.

You receive advance notice of General Membership meetings which feature guest speakers making presentations on topics of interest to Society members.

But most important, it gives you an opportunity to participate in the planning and implementation of Society projects to foster awareness of historic Fort Delaware, to raise and expend funds for current restoration and interpretive needs, and to conduct on-going research in the history of site, and the stories of soldiers and civilians who worked there, all those who were imprisoned there, and all who died there from 1814 to the present day.