19．Thomas Garret lost his entire fortune in his battle against slavery．He was sued by a Maryland slave owner and fined for aiding a black family in flight．Over his lifetime，Garrett reportedly helped more than 2，000fugitive（逃亡的，无常的）slaves move through Delaware，an important stop on the Underground Railroad．
20．Rehoboth Beach is the state’s largest coastal resort town．Methodists（卫理公会派教徒）who purchase the land for a summer camp and meeting place originally constructed it．
21．The 87－foot Fenwick Island Lighthouse was painted in 1880for a total cost of about 5．00．
22．Twelve concrete observation towers along the coast were constructed during World War II to protect the state’s coastal towns from German u－boat attacks．
23．Fisher’s popcorn is a famous coastal caramel（焦糖，饴糖）corn．It has been ordered from as far away as Vietnam and Indonesia．
24．The American holly is the official state tree．The tree can reach a maximum of 60feet in height and a trunk diameter of 20inches．
25．The peach blossom is Delaware’s official state flower and has prompted Delaware’s nickname as the peach state．
26．New Sweden was founded as a colony in 1638and is recognized as the first permanent colony on Delaware soil．
27．Winterthur Museum，Garden and Library，six miles northwest of Wilmington features one of the world’s finest naturalistic gardens．
28．Hagley Museum was originally the du Pont black powder manufactory，estate，and gardens．
29．The state’s Coastal Heritage Greenway consists of a corridor（走廊）of open space running along 90miles of coast and spanning the area between Fox Point State Park and the state line at Fenwick Island．
30．Thousand Acre Marsh is the largest freshwater tidal wetland in northern Delaware．The Chesapeake and Delaware Canals border the marsh（沼泽，沼泽地）．
31．In 1812Port Penn was considered the best port in Delaware．
32．Augustine Beach was named for Augustine Hermann．He was a Bohemian adventurer who mapped the Delmarva Peninsula and surrounding areas in the mid－1600s．
33．Odessa possesses one of the finest collections of late 18th－and early 19th－century architecture in the middle Atlantic region．The center of town is on the National Register of Historic Places and the entire town has been zoned as historic．
34．Barratt’s Chapel is known as the Cradle of Methodism．It was built in 1780and is the oldest surviving church built by and for Methodists in the United States．
35．The 80－food Great Dune is the state’s highest．It is located at Cape Henlopen State Park in Lewes．
36．The Maryland／Delaware boundary and the Mason－Dixon Line divide Delmar．A double crown stone marker was erected in 1768as the southern end of the only North－South portion of the Mason－Dixon line．
37．Horseshoe crabs may be viewed in large numbers up and down the Delaware shore in May．The crabs endure extremes of temperature and salinity（盐分，盐度）．They can also go for a year without eating and have remained basically the same since the days of the dinosaur（恐龙）．
38．The Du Pont Laboratories first produced nylon at its plant in Seaford．This earned the town the distinction of being the Nylon Capital of the World．
39．In recognition of sportfishing’s overall recreational and economic contributions to the state of Delaware and of the specific values of the weakfish（一种食用鱼）（Cynoscion genus）as a game and food fish，the state Legislature adopted the weakfish as Delaware’s State fish in 1981．This fish is also known as sea trout，gray trout，yellow mouth，yellow fin trout，squeteague（［鱼］犬牙石首鱼），and tiderunner．
40．Colonial blue and buff are Delaware’s official state colors．
41．Delaware was named for Lord de la Warr．He was the first governor of Virginia．
42．The sheaf of wheat，ear of corn，and the ox on the state seal symbolize the farming activities of early Delaware．
43．The Delaware Indians were one of the most advanced tribes of the eastern United States．
44．New Castle County includes the largest population and smallest area of Delaware’s three counties．
45．Wilmington’s Delaware History Center is housed in a renovated，art deco（艺术装饰）former Woolworth five－and－ten－cent store．
46．America’s newest tall ship is ten stories high and 139feet long．The recreation is the Kalmar Nyckel that landed on the Christina River in 1638．
47．Quaker merchant Thomas Garret is thought to be the model for a Quaker farmer in the novel，“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”．Garret and famed abolitionist（废除主义者）Harriett Tubman worked closely with Delaware’s anti－slavery forces．
48．The frying pan built in 1950for use at the Delmarva Chicken Festival is 10feet in diameter and holds 180gallons（加仑）of oil and 800chicken quarters．
49．The Delaware Breakwater at Cape Henlopen State Park was the first structure of its kind in the western hemisphere．
50．The town of Milton was named after the English poet John Milton in 1807．
［MZ（3H］Other Information话里话外
波所黎各
波所黎各南滨加勒比海，在战略上拥有十分重要的意义。它是始建于15世纪一直到19世纪才竣工的庞大防御工事，目的是为了保护其领土。赫圣胡安历史遗址是融合欧洲军事建筑风格，并结合美国大陆港口实际情况而建造的典型军事建筑群。
圣胡安历史遗址位于大西洋中西印度群岛的边缘，地理位置极为重要。它建于1511年，建成后不久，西班牙人就决定将波所黎各岛作为保护西南印度和帝国的军事基地。1533年在港口旁边建筑了“福塔莱萨”，1539年在这个岛的西部尖角位置和北部的岸边分别建筑了埃尔莫罗要塞和圣克里斯托瓦尔要塞。这个防御体系在后来的四个世纪中不断得到加强。这个要塞和喀他赫纳要塞在整个“新世界”中都给人留下了极为深刻的印象。
这个要塞也是饱经风雨。16世纪末曾被英国人和法国人攻占，1625年被荷兰人付之一炬。1630到1660年之间要塞得以重建，重建后的要塞外面增加了一道城墙。在1756—1763年的“七年战争”后的军事改革中，西班牙国王查理三世将圣胡安要塞视为“第一梯队的防御阵地”。要塞的城墙重修并加固，两个要塞之间的城墙得到了延长，把整个城市包围起来。
