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Local Partners:

City of Seaford, Delaware

 

Nanticoke River Yacht Club

 

Nanticoke River Marine Park

 

Greater Seaford Chamber of Commerce

 

The Salisbury Zoo

 

Town of Blades

 

Nanticoke Indian Association

 

Woodland Ferry Association

 

Seaford Historical Society

Virtual Voyage

2007 Voyage Main Page

Seaford/Blades, Delaware
May 30, 2007
Hours: 10am - 6pm

The John Smith shallop will visit the Nanticoke River Marine Park in Blades for a commemoration of Smith's first contact with Native Americans in what is now the State of Delaware.  Come meet the crew, tour the interactive exhibit tent, see the shallop and view The Salisbury Zoo’s traveling exhibit featuring live animals found on Delmarva today.  Admission is free.

 

 

 

 

While sailing up the Nanticoke River, the crew was met by hundreds of Kuskarawaok (Nanticoke) Indians lining the shore. The people, "ran as amazed in troops and (some of the Indians) got into the tops of trees, they were not sparing of their arrows, nor the greatest passion they could express of their anger." Smith was eventually able to trade with the Indians, however, and learned from them of the lack of a viable Northwest Passage in the area as well as stories of a great Indian nation to the north,"the Massawomecks".
 View John Smith's original map