Historic Shrines of America

Paul Revere's house, Faneuil Hall, the Craigie House where Longfellow wrote, a hundred more — an American pilgrimage told building by building, when many of these places were still fighting to survive.

The Ridgely House, Dover, Delaware

7 shrines in this part of Historic Shrines of America.

The Ridgely House, Dover, Delaware

A BOYHOOD HAUNT OF CÆSAR RODNEY, THE SIGNER On the Green in Dover, Delaware, is one of the most striking houses of the quaint old town-the…

The Ridgely House, Dover, Delaware: Pennsylvania

Dr. Charles Greenburg Ridgely became owner of the property in 1769. The house was a gift from his father, Nicholas Ridgely. The second of…

The Ridgely House, Dover, Delaware: Rodney

During the days when patriotic feelings were beginning to run high, Cæsar Rodney, the ward of Dr. Ridgely's father, was often an inmate of…

The Ridgely House, Dover, Delaware: Declaration

On July 1, 1776, when the vote was taken in the Committee of the Whole of the Continental Congress as to the framing and proclaiming of the…

The Ridgely House, Dover, Delaware: Stevens

XLVI REHOBOTH CHURCH ON THE POCOMOKE, MARYLAND THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERICA The Pocomoke River rises in southern Delaware…

The Ridgely House, Dover, Delaware: Makemie

For some years Makemie travelled from place to place, preaching and organizing churches as he went, but from 1699 to 1708, except in 1704…

The Ridgely House, Dover, Delaware: Cornbury

The warrant for the arrest of the "criminal" was addressed to Thomas Cordale, Esqr., High-Sheriff of Queens County on Long-Island, or his…

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