[PW] ?delmarva peninsula

[Newton Steve (DOS)]

John,

Sort of weird evidence.  In the Index to J. Thomas Scharf's 'History of
Delaware, 1609-1888', there are listings for the Delvarva Fertilizer
Company in 1877 and the Delvarva Manufacturing Company in 1873.  Two
businesses using the name in the 1870s suggest to me that the name was
not uncommon at that time.

My 'Delaware Place Names', 1960 something from the Geological Survey,
now the USGS, does not give anything.  Bummer.

I'll do some more scouting around.

Steve Newton
Delaware Division of Libraries

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Subject: [PW] ?delmarva peninsula

The Delmarva peninsula takes its name from Delaware, Maryland, and  
Virginia, but when was that name coined and did it have a different  
colonial or pre-colonial name? Did the Nanticoke, Lenape or  
Susquehannocks or other pre-European peoples give it a name? When the  
Dutch and Swedes and then English were disputing their colonial  
claims, did they agree on a name or have their own names for the  
peninsula?

Thanks,

John Henderson
Ithaca College Library

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