Delaware River
The Delaware River is a large river estuary in the Northeast United States. It is about 280 miles (450 km) long. It begins in the Catskill Mountains in southeast New York State and ends at the Atlantic Ocean at Delaware Bay. It forms the border or part of the border between the states of Pennsylvania and New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey and also between Delaware and New Jersey. The cities of Trenton, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are on the Delaware River.
Another name for this river is the South River. It is named for Thomas West, 3rd Lord De La Warr, a colonial Governor of Virginia.
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The Delaware River is named in honor of Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr
Benjamin West's painting, The Treaty of Penn with the Indians (1771–1772), depicts the 1683 Treaty of Shackamaxon between William Penn and Tamanend, the chief of the Lenape's Turtle Clan. Voltaire referred to it as "the only treaty never sworn to and never broken."
The headwaters of the Delaware River, including the river's East and West Branches and other tributaries
East Branch of the Delaware River near Margaretville, New York
Canoeing on the river at Hawk's Nest, New York
A still remaining section of the Delaware and Hudson Canal seen from U.S. 209 near Summitville, New York
Easton–Phillipsburg Toll Bridge crosses the Delaware, connecting Easton, Pennsylvania and Phillipsburg, New Jersey in the Lehigh Valley.
Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze, 1851, is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Benjamin Franklin Bridge crosses the Delaware, connecting Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey.
On the Delaware River, an oil painting (c. 1861–63) by George Inness now on display at Brooklyn Museum
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