As the first state to ratify the constitution, Delaware is the next state to be featured in our lists.
Our 100 lists of 100
1. Alan Loudell
2. Mark Fowser
3. Tim Furlong (NBC10 Delaware Bureau Chief)
4. Amy Cherry
5. Chris Carl
6. Nancy Karibjanian
7. Rita Katz Farrell
8. Alice Dunbar Nelson
9. Delaware Press Association (1977) and annual Professional Communications Contest
10. First State High School Communications Contest
11. Lewes Writers’ Workshop (annually since about 2009 or 2010)
12. Delaware Literary Connection
13. Rehoboth Beach Writers’ Guild
14. Delaware poetry Review
15. Delaware Writers Studio
16. Delmarva Review
17. Dreamstreets
18. Writing is a Shore Thing
19. DDOA Delaware Writer’s Retreat
20. Delaware Scholastic Writing Awards encourages & recognizes writers in grades 7 through 12
21. The Holly Branch and the Diamond Branch of the National League of American Pen Women
22. The Broadkill Review
23. WriteByNight
24. Eastern Shore Writers Association
25. Bay to Ocean Annual Writers Conference
26. Bay to Ocean Journal
27. MDDC (Maryland, Delaware, DC) Press Association and annual communications contest
28. Public Relations Society of Delaware PRSA DE
29. The News Journal
30. WDEL
31. Delaware State News
32. WRDE-TV
33. Cape Gazette
34. Delaware Public Media (WDDE)
35. WMPH – Mount Pleasant High School Radio
36. Sussex County Vo-Tech video and audio program
37. Caesar Rodney HS
38. PATV – Padua Academy Television
39. Stella White – JOY 2019
40. Rachel Baker – JOY 2018
41. Stella White – NFPW H.S. Communications Contest Best of the Best Award 2019
42. Maggie Patterson – JOY 2022
43. Cab Calloway School of the Arts
44. Famous People
45. Joe Biden
46. Aubrey Plaza
47. Judge Reinhold
48. Elena DelleDonne
49. George Thorogood
50. Howard Pyle
51. Elizabeth Shue
52. Ryan Phillippe
53. Valerie Bertinelli
54. Teri Polo
55. Russell Peterson
56. Caesar Rodney
57. George Read
58. Thomas McKean
59. John Dickinson, Penman of the Revolution (and the John Dickinson Plantation, Dover)
60. Historic Sites and Businesses
61. 1st State to sign the Constitution
62. Smallest population of any state, fewest counties (3) of any state, and lowest,in terms of average altitude above sea level (60 feet), of any state
63. Old Swedes Church, built 1698-99, “the nation’s oldest church building still used for worship as originally built”
64. The Grand Opera House
65. Barratt’s Chapel (the “Cradle of Methodism” – oldest house of worship still in existence in the US built by and for Methodists – built 1781 & meeting place of Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury on November 14, 1784.
66. Mason-Dixon Line
67. Fort Delaware
68. There are more corporate entities formed in Delaware than there are residents.
69. Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
70. Hagley Museum
71. Nemours Children’s Hospital
72. Granogue Estate
73. Delaware Park (Racetrack)
74. Old New Castle
75. Various Friends Meeting Houses from the 1700s: Hockessin 1738, Appoquinimink 1785, Center (Centerville) 1796, Camden 1805, Wilmington 1815-17
76. Brandywine Park
77. Bombay Hook
78. Fenwick Island
79. Rehoboth Beach (Little Washington)
80. Lewes “The First Town in The First State” founded 1631 (Shipcarpenter Square, Zwaanendael Museum)
81. Dover International Speedway
82. The Clifford Brown Jazz Festival in Rodney Square
83. Blue Hen (UD)
84. Hornet (DSU)
85. Tax Free Shopping
86. DuPont (E. I. du Pont de Nemours) Multinational chemical corporation + DuPont Experimental Station
87. ILC Dover – makes NASA spacesuits
88. AstraZeneca
89. Gore-Tex and the Gore family
90. Delaware’s Tall Ship, Kalmar Nyckel (sad to be the most beautiful of all of them) & The Rocks
91. Dover Air Force Base (and the Air Mobility Command Museum on the base + National Mortuary)
92. Bellanca Airfield and the Delaware Aviation Hall of Fame Museum
93. University of Delaware’s Sea Grant College of Earth, Ocean and Environment (research vessel the Hugh R. Sharp; wind turbine on its Lewes campus) – important coastal studies
94. Food and Film
95. Capriotti’s Bobbie
96. Chicken (Broiler industry begun by Cecile B. Steele)
97. Peaches – 1st commercial peach farm
98. Helen’s Sausage House
99. Scrapple
100. Dogfish Head Brewery
101. The Charcoal Pit
102. Horseshoe Crabs
103. Movies filmed in Delaware: Beloved, Clean and Sober, Dead Poets Society, Failure to Launch, The Village, Jack of Clubs
