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First State Heritage Park is a group of sites in Dover which highlight Delaware's role as the "First State." Established by Governor Ruth Ann Minner in 2004, The First State Heritage Park represents a partnership between the Delaware Department of State, the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, and the Delaware Economic Development Office. The state's first "park without boundaries" links historical and cultural sites in the capital city of Dover. First State Heritage Park is open year round, with special tours of the sites given the first Saturday of each month at Delaware's Legislative Hall (pictured above).
The attraction sites that make up the First Heritage Park include:
A premier collection of its kind, displaying sound recording industry items dating from the 1890's through 1929. The museum honors Eldridge Reeves Johnson of Dover who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901.
Encompassing 12,000 years of Delaware's archeological history, the museum includes an overview of Delaware's Native American history.
The museum represents a late 19th-century main street furnished with five different shops and a working pearl printing press, circa 1897.