Delaware has been an agricultural state for as long as nearly anyone can remember – and it’s still a leading producer of poultry and peaches to this day! And, if you live in Delaware, you know all about the Delaware dairy cows that help produce some of the finest homemade ice cream that has ever existed. But, did you know just how many poultry farms, dairy farms, orchards and more were spread out throughout the state in the 1920s and 1930s? Luckily, with the help of the Delaware Department of Agriculure photograph archives,, we were able to dig up some incredible images that will show you just how these Delaware farms shaped the First State’s history.

Farms and Agriculture have shaped the Delaware landscape, from Newton Orchards, Bridgeville...
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to the dairy cows at Delhaven Farm in New Castle.
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Of course, Poultry farms like Hillside in Selbyville are perhaps the most notable.
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Delaware's reputation for amazing chicken comes from the tremendous poultry farms that once dotted the landscape. Here's Steen's Poultry Farm, in Dagsboro.
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Even Georgetown had its own chicken farm - it was AC Jones Poultry Farm.
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Frankford is still a rural area, so it's not surprising to see the sprawling land of CC Hudson's Poultry Farm.
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Some farms, like Cedar View in Bridgeville, were multi-faceted.
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The poultry ran one side of the property, and beautiful, plentiful orchards produced fruit on the other side.
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Peach pickers, shown here at Herbert Richardson Farm, were valued for the effort they put in to keep Delawareans fed.
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W.L. Smith Orchard employees were responsible for tons and tons of apples being distributed across the state.
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And of course, if you grew up in Dover, you've heard stories of Walker Mifflin's farm, and the apple picking and packing process.
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There’s just something about these peaceful photographs from the past that make you want to step back in time and enjoy days when life was simple and carefree in Delaware. Luckily, if you’re feeling this way, you can visit the old mariner’s town of Bowers Beach, where life is still the way it used to be.

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