Book Description

The United States Delaware Valley Tercentenary Commission, created and authorized by Public Resolution No. 102, Seventy-fourth Congress (approved June 5, 1936), as amended by Public Resolution No. 71, Seventy-fifth Congress (approved August 25, 1937), to prepare and carry through a program to celebrate the three-hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the first permanent settlement by white men in the Delaware River Valley, namely, the settlement established by the New Sweden Company on March 29, 1638, and named Fort Christina, on the site of present-day Wilmington, Del.