Delaware Colony was renamed to the Hospital for the Mentally Retarded. One of the women sterilized around this time was a 25-year-old Black woman named Rosetta.

In the 17th century, life along what would become the Delaware coast included European families working alongside enslaved Africans to farm the land and survive a rugged pioneer life.

The Delaware is an 8,000-ton boat, which cost $500,000, and the Colonial a craft of 560 tons, and cost $50,000. During the fire Joseph Scott of Engine 5 of Hoboken fell overboard and had a narrow ...