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I believe this was the bridge from Pennsylvania to New Jersey. I took this from a moving car which is why the bar is in the way. Sorry, but that was the best I could do at 60 miles an hour!
Delaware State Police
Chevrolet Tahoe
Picture Date: 05/11/2017
This fully marked Chevrolet Tahoe is owned by the Delaware State Police.
Newark, Delaware Reservoir, 317 Million gallons, who knew? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark_Reservoir, You are welcome to share. www.lancerogersphotos.com www.instagram.com/lancerogersphotos,
A view of the Delaware River along the Delaware Canal Towpath in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
Note: Geotagged location name is incorrect. This is on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River.
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Delaware Lackawanna PT97 threads its way through the Delaware Water Gap after interchanging with NS at Portland, PA. It was apparently a good day for kayaking and rafting...as well as railfanning along the Delaware River.
DL PT97:
MHWA 2453 C425 (ex-EL 2453, BCOL 803)
DL 3000 M630 (ex-PGE/BCOL 706)
Delaware State Police
Chevrolet C5500
Explosive Ordinance Disposal (E.O.D.)
Vehicle #550-S
Picture Date: 06/27/2017
This truck and trailer are owned by the Delaware State Police and used by the Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit.
Delaware State Police
Chevrolet Caprice
Vehicle #7397
Picture Date: 06/08/2016
An unmarked Delaware State Police Chevrolet Caprice sits parked in the roadway while the Trooper investigates a crash nearby.
...Bay, that is. A recent vacation to New Jersey and Delaware included a crossing of the Cape May-Lewes Ferry, which transports passengers across the Delaware Bay between the two towns in those states. I took this shot from one of the ferry's upper decks as the ship was leaving Cape May, NJ. The ship in the background is the ferry that had just returned from Lewes, DE. A flock of seagulls turned out to see us off!
Railroad bridges in fog over Delaware River with Lehigh River dam in foreground from Easton, PA - Canon EOS 7D.
here's another shot from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware well before sunrise. The lights off in the distance in the center is Cape May, New Jersey.
photo ID #1487
"The Read House & Gardens is a historic house museum at 42 The Strand in New Castle, Delaware. The house, built in 1797-1804 for George Read, Jr., was the largest and most sophisticated residence in the state at the time, and is a significant early example of high-style Federal period architecture. The adjacent formal gardens were laid out in the late 1840s by William Couper, the house's third owner. The property was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2016, and is part of the landmark New Castle Historic District. The house is now owned and operated by the Delaware Historical Society as a museum.
The Read House is located in central downtown New Castle, facing the Delaware River across The Strand midway between Harmony and Delaware Streets. The house's view of the river includes a surviving portion of the wharf of George Read. The house is a 2+1⁄2-story brick building, with a side gable roof and a stone foundation. It has four chimneys, two built into each end wall, with a curtain wall between. The roof's peak is truncated, the flat top section ringed by a low balustrade. The front face of the roof has two dormers, topped by gabled roofs and covering round-arch windows. The main facade is five bays wide, with sash windows set in rectangular openings, with stone sills and splayed stone lintels. The main entrance is at the center, with flanking sidelight windows and pilasters, and a large half-round transom window above. On the second story above the entrance is a Palladian window, its sections flanked by narrow pilasters. To the rear of the main block are two large ells, giving the house a total area in excess of 14,000 square feet (1,300 m2).
The house was built in 1793 for George Read Jr., the son of George Read, one of Delaware's leading statesmen and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. The younger Read was a successful lawyer and businessman, whose wealth enabled him to build what was then the largest private residence in the state. Stylistically, it is an important early example of Federal period architecture, taking inspiration from several Adamesque houses built in Philadelphia a few years earlier.
New Castle was originally settled by the Dutch West India Company in 1651 under the leadership of Peter Stuyvesant on the site of a former aboriginal village, "Tomakonck" ("Place of the Beaver"), to assert their claim to the area based on a prior agreement with the aboriginal inhabitants of the area. The Dutch originally named the settlement Fort Casimir, but this was changed to Fort Trinity (Swedish: Trefaldighet) following its seizure by the colony of New Sweden on Trinity Sunday, 1654. The Dutch conquered the entire colony of New Sweden the following year and rechristened the fort Nieuw-Amstel ("New Amstel", after the Amstel). This marked the end of the Swedish colony in Delaware as an official entity, but it remained a semi-autonomous unit within the New Netherland colony and the cultural, social, and religious influence of the Swedish settlers remained strong. As the settlement grew, Dutch authorities laid out a grid of streets and established the town common (The "Green"), which continue to this day.
In 1664, the English seized the entire New Netherland colony in the Second Anglo-Dutch War. They changed the name of the town to "New Castle" and made it the capital of their Delaware Colony. The Dutch regained the town in 1673 during the Third Anglo-Dutch War but it was returned to Great Britain the next year under the Treaty of Westminster. In 1680, New Castle was conveyed to William Penn by the Duke of York by livery of seisin and was Penn's landing place when he first set foot on American soil on October 27, 1682. This transfer to Penn was contested by Lord Baltimore and the boundary dispute was not resolved until the survey conducted by Mason and Dixon, now famed in history as the Mason–Dixon line.
Prior to the establishment of Penn's Philadelphia, New Castle was a center of government. After being transferred to Penn, Delaware's Swedish, Dutch, and English residents used to the relaxed culture of the Restoration monarchy grew uncomfortable with the more conservative Quaker influence, so Delaware petitioned for a separate legislature, which was finally granted in 1702. Delaware formally broke from Pennsylvania in 1704. New Castle again became the seat of the colonial government, thriving with the various judges and lawyers that fueled the economy. Many smaller houses were torn down and replaced in this era. In February, 1777, John McKinly was elected the first President of Delaware (a title later renamed "Governor"). During the Revolution, when New Castle was besieged by William Howe, the government elected to move its functions south to Dover in May, 1777. McKinley was captured by the British and held prisoner for several months. New Castle remained the county seat until after the Civil War, when that status was transferred to Wilmington. Three signers of the Declaration of Independence were from New Castle—Thomas McKean, George Read, and George Ross.
The 16-mile (26 km) portage between the Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay saved a 400-mile (640 km) trip around the Delmarva Peninsula, so this brought passengers, goods, and business to New Castle's port. In the years following the Revolution, a turnpike was built to facilitate travel between the two major waterways. Later, New Castle became the eastern terminus of the New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad, the second-oldest rail line in the country, launched in 1828 with horse-drawn rail cars, then converting to steam power when an engine was purchased from Great Britain in 1832. The line traversed the Delmarva Peninsula, running to the Elk River, Maryland, from where passengers changed to packet boats for further travel to Baltimore and points south. This helped the New Castle economy to further boom; however, by 1840, rail lines were in place between Philadelphia and Baltimore, which had a stop in Wilmington, thus leaving New Castle to deal with a substantial decline in traffic and revenue.
The decline in New Castle's economy had the long-range fortunate effect of preventing most residents from making any significant structural changes to their homes. So, the many buildings of historic New Castle look much as they did in the colonial and Federal periods.
New Castle has a tradition, dating back to 1927, of tours of historical homes, churches, and gardens. These tours, called "A Day in Olde New Castle", are usually held on the third Saturday of May. Householders dress in colonial costumes and an admittance fee is collected which is used toward the maintenance of the town's many historic buildings. In June the town holds its annual Separation Day celebration.
On April 28, 1961, an F3 tornado hit the north side. Although no fatalities or injuries occurred, it was the only tornado of this magnitude ever recorded in Delaware." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
Now on Instagram.
Delaware State Police
Chevrolet Tahoe (unmarked)
Picture Date: 04/25/2014
This DSP Chevrolet Tahoe was spotted parked outside of Troop #6 in the Prices Corner area.
Delaware State Police
Ford Explorer Utility
Picture Date: 08/05/2017
A brand new Delaware State Police Ford Explorer Utility is spotted parked at Troop #1 in Wilmington. I was told that each Troop is getting one of these vehicles for Troopers to use and help determine whether or not the agency will purchase more. Currently, the Delaware State Police consists mostly of Chevrolet Tahoe's.
Delaware State Police
Chevrolet Tahoe
Picture Date: 12/27/2017
A Delaware State Trooper passes through Odessa, Delaware in their fully marked Chevrolet Tahoe.
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Managed a long weekend getaway. Quiet house with a short walk to the beach on the Delaware Bay. The low tide exposed some cool patterns in the sand.
Delaware State Police
Ford Crown Victoria (Unmarked)
Picture Date: 12/24/2015
An unmarked Delaware State Police Ford Crown Victoria sits parked on I-495 while the Trooper handles a crash investigation.
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A view of the Delaware River near the John M. Mauser Nature Education Trail System in Lower Mount Bethel Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
Delaware State Police
Chevrolet Tahoe
Picture Date: 03/21/2016
This Chevrolet Tahoe is owned by the Delaware State Police. Here it's parked in Hudson, Massachusetts for the funeral services of Trooper Thomas Clardy of the Massachusetts State Police. Trooper Clardy was killed in the line of duty when his patrol vehicle was struck from behind while on a traffic stop.
Delaware State Police
Chevrolet Tahoe
Recruiting Unit
Picture Date: 10/14/2013
A side shot of DSP's Recruiting Chevrolet Tahoe.
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Delaware State Police
Chevrolet Tahoe
Picture Date: 12/14/2017
A Delaware State Police Chevrolet Tahoe is spotted parked near Cheswold, DE.
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A view of the Delaware Canal in Theodore Roosevelt Recreation Area, part of Delaware Canal State Park in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
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