Portal:Delaware/History/January 29
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On This Date in Delaware, January 29...
- 1791 - The General Assembly gave Delaware counties the authority to set up almshouses (poor houses). It decreed that "patients" would wear a red cloth on the left arm denoting the county: "PN", "PK", or "PS."
- 1847 - The General Assembly authorized St. Mary's College in Wilmington to offer degrees.
- 1891 - Trinity Chapel at 5th and King streets was abandoned as its congregation moved to Trinity Church on Wilmington's Delaware Avenue and Adams Street.
- 1950 - Dunleith Estates near New Castle became the first housing development where blacks could buy their own home, despite still existing racial segregation. Homes sold for $5-6,000.
