Horseshoe crabs may be viewed in large numbers up and down the Delaware shore in May. The crabs endure extremes of temperature and salinity. They can also go for a year without eating and have remained basically the same since the days of the dinosaur.
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John Dickinson was called the Penman of the Revolution for his writings on independence. His boyhood home is preserved in Dover, Delaware.
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Wilmington's Delaware History Center is housed in a renovated, art deco former Woolworth five-and-ten-cent store.