Portal:Delaware/History/January 15
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On This Date in Delaware, January 15...
- 1913 - The Du Pont Hotel opened on Wilmington's Rodney Square to a crowd of 25,000 visitors and offered rooms at $1.50 per day.
- 1918 Lorewood Grove Farm, the birthplace of former Chief Justice and later US Congressman Charles B. Lore, burned to the ground. Located along the C & D Canal, ice covered roads prevented the horse-drawn fire fighting vehicles from arriving on time.
- 1923 - Delaware became the last state to do so when the General Assembly amended its constitution to allow women to become members of the bar.
- 1971 - The Dover community was devastated when five of its business and civic leaders, Dr. James M. Chase, David Gamberg, Turner Hastings, Matthew Mitten, and James Smith, were killed in an airplane crash in Rutland, Vermont while returning from a skiing trip.
