First State Heritage Park offers season’s last lantern tour Nov. 5

DOVER (Nov. 1, 2010) - A stroll across the Dover Green is a stroll across time. The historic town center of Dover was the site of markets and fairs, suffragists and abolitionists, soldiers and slaves, lawmakers and law breakers. There is no better way to experience this history than by the light of a lantern.  The First State Heritage Park’s final lantern tour of the season will take place on Friday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m.

Historical interpreters from the First State Heritage Park will be dressed in colonial attire as they relate the stories of the sights and sounds of historic Dover. Among the tales visitors will hear are of the legendary Caesar Rodney along with stories about the most infamous resident of Dover’s jail and the only Loyalist executed in Delaware during the Revolution, devastating fires that threatened the town, tragic love, and the auctioning of slaves on the steps of the Old State House.

Admission is $5 per person, and tours meet in front of the Biggs Museum of American Art, 406 Federal Street, Dover. Reservations may be made by calling 302-739-9194. More information about this and other programs is available at www.destateparks.com/heritagepark.

The First State Heritage Park at Dover is Delaware’s first urban “park without boundaries” linking historic and cultural sites in the city that has been the seat of state government since 1777.  The park is a partnership of state agencies, under the leadership of Delaware State Parks, working in collaboration with city and county government, nonprofit organizations and the private sector.

Vol. 40, No. 372