Interesting Facts about Delaware

• Johan Prinz, capable governor of New Sweden from 1643 to 1653, was the "greatest" of all colonial governors. He weighed 400 pounds and was called the "Big Tub."
• When a ship carrying peas wrecked on a sandbar, the peas grew and collected so much sand that a new island formed, now Pea Patch Island.
• When one of the Du Pont men saw sparks flying from a machine in their blasting powder plant, he dipped his tall silk hat in water and put out the fire before a tremendous explosion could occur.
• One of the most curious exhibits to be found at the Delaware Historical Society is a cigar store white man, a carving of George Washington.
• When Shadrach Cannon of Seaford was bitten by a rabid dog, some of the town's best citizens were selected to smother him to death between two feather beds, in an early mercy killing.