Of Delaware�s three counties, New Castle County is the smallest in the area, even though two-thirds of Delaware�s residents call it home. Aldous Huxley once mused that �the charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.� Certainly this is true of New Castle County. Images of America: New Castle County begins in 1875, as steamboats plied the waters of the Christina and Delaware Rivers and farme...

Dela-where? is a joke that all too often hits a nerve with residents of the second smallest state, but Dela-here is a great place to be—amid all the big cities of the Eastern Seaboard but just far enough from the beaten path to have its own unique identity. This collection of photographs celebrates the First State’s history with an eclectic mix of rural and urban, from the rolling hills and swift streams of New Castle County to the flat and rich agricultural lands of Kent and Suss...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the 200 historic views in Delaware in Vintage Postcards provide eloquent commentary on the First State in the early part of the twentieth century. Capturing the era between 1905 and 1925, this charming retrospective takes readers on a journey from Selbyville and Fenwick Island to Claymont, Arden, and Hockessin, and down the picturesque Main Streets of more than fifty Delaware towns. Illustrated postcards, which became popular at the turn of the ...