Additional franchises are slated for New Jersey as well as northern Delaware and eastern Pennsylvania.

Addicks was a wealthy gas company industrialist from Philadelphia, who had established a residence in northern Delaware.

He has deeded rights-of-way on neighboring properties to be able to drive his four-in-hand around northern Delaware.

The bank, which has assets of more than $16 billion and 224 branches, serves metropolitan New York, New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware.

By the 1970s, Strawbridge's had nearly a dozen branch stores in malls across eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and northern Delaware.

More than 450 people were evacuated because of flooding in northern Delaware.

The bridge is a cable-stayed bridge and notable landmark in northern Delaware.

Essentially, 856 covers the areas adjacent to Philadelphia, south eastern Pennsylvania, and northern Delaware.

The East Penn Railroad operates 114 miles of track in eastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware with a roster of 14 locomotives.

Mr. Tunnell said he has been negotiating with a builder fom New Castle County in northern Delaware.