On the Delaware River waterfront, industrial buildings and mills have been turned into lofts.

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In 1787, inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates of the Continental Congress.

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One evening not long ago, I visited Paul Mainardi, a lawyer with a professorial manner who lives in Philadelphia, in an apartment tower with a wide view of the Delaware River.

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That flame made an appearance at Valley Forge in a cold, dark night when our General George Washington knelt down on his knees and prayed and that flame led the way across the Delaware River to a triumph at Trenton.

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Paquin told me about the time LL Bean was late on a canoe delivery and one of his team members strapped the canoe on the top of his car and travelled from company headquarters in Freeport, Me. to New Jersey to make a personal delivery to the customer, who was about to take off on a trip down the Delaware river.

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Lawrence River to Delaware.

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By my review, every state east of the Mississippi River has a law against price gouging except for Maryland, Delaware, New Hampshire, and Ohio.

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Minor tidal flooding was possible along the Delaware coast, the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay and the lower Potomac River, the National Weather Service said.

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But unlike the nearby Beaverkill River, which has spawned countless very good books, the Upper Delaware, for some reason, lacked that one great book that every one of its fishermen needed to own.

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