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The Central Hotel about 1914 in Delaware City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Communities all around Delaware make excellent learning laboratories\u00a0for\u00a0classes that\u00a0are\u00a0seeking to increase historial-thinking and understand the evolution of our 21st<\/sup> century environment.\u00a0 With that in mind, I often take undergraduates out for\u00a0fieldwork, especially this time of year as autumn gets underway on the Peninsula and the days are ideal for strolling.\u00a0 The focus of these\u00a0experiential learning exercises is to demonstrate\u00a0how to understand the history that is all around by\u00a0showing them where to look, what to look for, and how to examine the visual evidence.<\/p>\n

So we spent this morning in Delaware City considering how\u00a0physical, economic, cultural and political forces shaped growth and development of the quaint little town at the eastern end of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.\u00a0 This applied research in a classroom without walls gave us the perfect place to gather evidence and talk about how and why this place looks the way it does.\u00a0 In preparation for the trip that explored the physical and built landscape, technological changes and demography, we scrutinized photographs, maps and other primary document that served as the foundation for our investigation.<\/p>\n

Next week, we are going to venture down below the canal to look at two other towns, Middletown and Odessa, for a comparative case study.\u00a0 Together these towns provide the perfect laboratory for comparing and contracting how and why development of three Delaware communities took place and analyze the different paths they took over the centuries.<\/p>\n

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The Central Hotel in Delaware City today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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