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The Saving Delaware History Podcast
The Saving Delaware History podcast explores the fascinating facets of Delaware history. Each episode covers a location, project, or research by the HCA including origins of the endeavor, interviews with experts, and its largest impacts. Delaware’s Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs continues its mission of preserving and interpreting Delaware history by providing the staff and funding for this podcast.
Episodes
42 episodes
A New Podcast: After the Canary Song
Named after the canaries common in coal mines towards the beginning of the 20th century, After the Canary Song examines the true stories behind popular disaster songs. This podcast from the Johnson Victrola Museum discusses the origina...
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Our Final Episode
This is the last episode of The Saving Delaware History Podcast. Thank you for your support and please continue exploring your local history. Learn more about the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs at
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Milford Museum
In the hometown of nine governors, the birthplace of Dixie cup wooden spoons, and the site of the first attempt at integration in Delaware lies this post-office-turned-museum, displaying collections of the state bug, Milford inventions, and Wor...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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19:48
Collections: Shipwreck Artifacts
When the distant Canadian descendants of Commander Drew of the sloop DeBraak came looking for the watch imprinted with their family crest, they found it carefully conserved within the Division for Historical and Cultural Affair’s archives of th...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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28:55
"The Milford Eleven" from The Education Trust
As one of the first communities to attempt desegregation, Milford, Delaware grappled with an uncooperative state government, prolonged harassment of minors, the resignation of an entire school board, disenrollment of any integrated student, and...
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0:42
SHPO: The State Historic Review Board
Long-treasured locations like Funland in Rehoboth, Delaware, are brought before the State Historic Review Board, where they rigorously check the nominated sites against maintenance requirements and cultural significance standards before forward...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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21:09
Bellevue Hall
Modeled after the home of Dolly and James Madison, this estate, built by William duPont Jr., boasts a horsetrack akin to that of the Kentucky Derby, including a fishing pond, volleyball courts, tennis courts, and plenty of field space. Take in ...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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21:54
Three Forts, One Community
One people, under many nationalities, lived, worked, loved, and died in the Delaware River Valley, founding the city of Wilmington and leaving behind many forts’ worth of artifacts. Discover the story of these three forts within one community w...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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22:36
The Kalmar Nyckel
Running through the waters of downtown Wilmington courses a replica of the Kalmar Nyckel, a 17th-century pinnace and the Swedish colonial ship that founded the first permanent European settlement in Delaware. Brave the rough river wate...
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Season 8
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Episode 3
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27:43
Fort Christina
Diamond merchant Peter Minuit, who struck the bargain for Manhattan after governing New Amsterdam, hand-picked Fort Christina, the foundation of today’s city of Wilmington. Untangle the development of Delaware’s most populous city in this talk ...
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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26:17
Horticulture at HCA
Along with her phenomenal team of horticulturists, she makes what appears ugly beautiful again by hemming boxwoods and planting annuals. Take a look at how horticulture serves the mission of Delaware Historical and Cultural Affairs in this disc...
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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20:33
SHPO: The Cultural and Historic Resource Information System
Tracked throughout history and across geography, aerial images from the Cultural and Historic Resource Information System (CHRIS) display Delaware’s and the nation’s historic properties and developments as they evolved. Investigate this geograp...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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22:43
SHPO: Architecture and African Americans
A Harlem Renaissance activist, poetess, and teacher; one of the first desegregated schools in the US; and a major transition point in the Underground Railroad, all encircled within the bounds of the second smallest state. Review some of the man...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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21:03
Collections: Recent Black Lives Matter Acquisition
“Liberty and Justice for ALL!!!” declares the hot-pink sign created by Gail Reid for last year’s removal of the whipping post at the Old Sussex Court House, which was recently acquired by the HCA’s Collections program. Take in this story about ...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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19:56
SHPO: Maritime Archaeology
Sea merchants, insurance companies, past scavengers, and modern salvors all subjected Delaware’s shipwrecks to centuries of salvaging; only in the past half-century have they been the focus of archaeological recoveries. Delve into Delaware’s ma...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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17:26
SHPO: The National Register
Back from the ‘60s as one of only 63 known to the world, the Futuro House imitates for the common man the ability to live in a spaceship. Queue up this episode with Madeline Dunn, the National Register Coordinator, and Emily Whaley, a Cultural ...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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22:27
The State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO)
Since six years old, she knew she wanted a career in archaeology and paleontology; after almost two decades performing Section 106 reviews, she rose to the second-highest preservation post in Delaware. On the first day of National Historic Pres...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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21:51
History of the Collections Program
The socioeconomic elite of early 1800s Philadelphia sought the distinctive, detailed portraiture of Sarah Miriam Peale, one of the first women accepted into the respected Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the painter of families closely...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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19:11
African Americans on the John Dickinson Plantation
The hundreds of graves uncovered last month are only the most recent revelation in the lengthy record of African Americans employed on the John Dickinson Plantation. Press play to hear Gloria Henry and Annie Fenimore, the Site Supervisor and Le...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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16:55
The Maintenance Team
Behind the scenes, supporting all of the sites owned by the Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs and maintaining their historic integrity, labors the Maintenance Team. Learn about this career niche in today’s chat with the HCA’s recetly-...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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15:30
Fort Casimir
In comes the Swedish ambassador, directly from Washington, to visit the archaeological dig that found a demolished colonial fort in Historic New Castle. Listen in to the story of Fort Casimir as told by Craig Lukezic, former Historic Archaeolog...
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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28:40
The Green
Shirley Temple, on her way to New York, stops into a teahouse on The Green, yards away from Delaware’s first county jail, one of the only tuition-free schools in Delaware, and Immanuel Church. Rejoin us today to speak again with Cynthia Snyder ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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16:06
The Future of Cooch's Bridge
Connecting the Pencader Heritage Museum, Cooch’s Bridge, Cooch-Dayett Mill, and the Thomas Cooch House will be an interpretative biking and walking path designed by the Friends of Cooch’s Bridge. Hear in this talk with President of the Friends ...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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26:38
Cooch Family History
A little-known fact: The last casualty in the Battle of Cooch’s Bridge was in 1996, when a cannon ball fell off the mantel and onto Richard Cooch Junior’s foot, resulting in an urgent trip to the Emergency Room. Hear more about this and many su...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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27:22
Cooch-Dayett Mill Functions
In conjunction with elementary history and environmental curriculums and Delaware’s Division for Historical and Cultural Affairs, Cooch-Dayett Mill served for a time as an educational center and tree-hugger hub. Tune in to this episode with Sit...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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17:24