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Newark Newark is a city in New Castle County, Delaware, USA, 12 miles (19 km) west-southwest of Wilmington. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is
30,060.
Newark is the home of
the University of
Delaware. Newark was founded by
Scots-Irish and Welsh settlers in 1694. The town was officially established when it received a
charter from George II of Great
Britain in
1758. Schools have played a
significant role in the history of Newark. A grammar school, founded by Francis Alison in 1743, moved from New London, Pennsylvania to Newark in 1765, becoming the Newark Academy. Among the
first graduates of the school were three signers of the Declaration of
Independence: George Read, Thomas McKean, and James Smith. During the Revolutionary War, British and American forces clashed outside Newark at
Battle of Cooch's
Bridge. Tradition holds that the Battle of
Cooch's Bridge was the first time that the Stars and Stripes was flown in
battle. The state granted a
charter to a new school in 1833, which was called Newark College. Newark Academy
and Newark College joined together in the following year, becoming Delaware College. The school was forced to close in
1859, but was resuscitated eleven years later under the Morrill Act when it became a joint venture between the State of Delaware
and the school's Board of Trustees. In 1913, pursuant to legislative Act, Delaware College came into sole ownership of the State
of Delaware. The school would be renamed the University of
Delaware in
1921 Newark is now surrounded
by housing
developments in some directions, although
farmland remains just over the state lines in Maryland and Pennsylvania. To the north and west are small hills, but south and east of the city, the land is flat (part of Newark
falls in the Piedmont geological region and part of the city is in the Coastal
Plain geological region, as is the majority of the land in the State of
Delaware). Despite the fact that
Newark is located roughly halfway between Philadelphia (approximately 45 miles away) and Baltimore (approximately 55 miles away) and is part of densely
populated New Castle County, there is a large amount of public parkland surrounding the
city. To the south is Iron Hill Park (part of the New Castle County Park
System), to the west (in Cecil County,
Maryland) is Fair Hill Natural Resources
Management Area, and to the North is White Clay Creek State
Park and White Clay Creek
Preserve (in Chester County,
Pennsylvania). Also nearby is Middle Run Valley Natural
Area, which is part of the New Castle County
Park System. These parks provide ample hiking, mountain biking, and horse back
riding opportunities. White Clay Creek State Park and Fair Hill Natural
Resources Management Area comprise land formerly owned by the Du Pont family that was later ceded to the states of Delaware and
Maryland, respectively. Newark is home to the
University of
Delaware (UD). The school has programs in a
broad range of subjects, but is probably best known for its business, chemical
engineering, chemistry and biochemistry programs, drawing from the historically strong presence of
the nation's chemical and pharmaceutical industries in the state of Delaware. In 2006, UD's engineering program was ranked number 10 in the nation by The Princeton
Review. Income & Housing Costs Numbers: Estimated median household income in 2008: $58,868 (it
was $48,758 in 2000)
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