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Photographer: Roger Dean Meyer
Taken: October 8, 2006
Caption: William Penn (1644–1718)
Additional Description: 1984 bronze by Charles C. Parks (1922– ) is approx. 8 feet high. The circular base on the marker includes the wording, “The citizens of New Castle Del. presented to William Penn, 1644–1718, the key to the fort, one turf with a twig upon it, a porringer with river water and sovle.”
The gifts symbolized his proprietorship of Pennsylvania which at that time included the three lower counties that became the state of Delaware.
Submitted: October 29, 2007, by Roger Dean Meyer of Yankton, South Dakota.
Database Locator Identification Number: p9323
File Size: 2.306 Megabytes

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