Portal:Delaware/History/January 7
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On This Date in Delaware, January 7...
- 1880 - The Sussex County hamlet of Lewisville near Laurel was renamed Bethel.
- 1918 - US Food Administrator Herbert Hoover's recent "Keep a Hog" appeal to alleviate food shortages during World War I caused problems in places like Milford. If a pigsty was kept within town limits, it could not be a nuisance.
