Today about 500 descendants of the original Nanticoke Indians reside in Delaware. They celebrate their heritage each September with the Nanticoke Indian Pow Wow.
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In 1785 Oliver Evans of Newport, Delaware invented the automatic flour-milling machinery that revolutionized the industry.
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Odessa, Delaware possesses one of the finest collections of late 18th- and early 19th-century architecture in the middle Atlantic region. The center of town is on the National Register of Historic Places and the entire town has been zoned as historic.