Delaware Historical Society
The Delaware Historical Society began in 1864 as an effort to preserve documents from the Civil War. Since then, it has expanded into a statewide historical institution with several buildings, including Old Town Hall and the Delaware History Museum, in Wilmington and the historic Read House & Gardens in New Castle.
Delaware History Museum
Old Town Hall
Coxe House(s) in Willingtown Square
Library and research center
Caesar Rodney was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and politician from St. Jones Neck in Dover Hundred, Kent County, Delaware. He was an officer of the Delaware militia during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a signer of the Continental Association and Declaration of Independence, and president of Delaware during most of the American Revolution.
20th-century image; no contemporary portrait exists.
Declaration of Independence, by John Trumbull (1818) portrays the presentation of the Declaration of Independence to Congress. Rodney is not depicted.
Caesar Rodney on the 1999 Delaware State Quarter.
The Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence in Washington, D.C., Rodney's depicted signature is at the upper left
