Delaware Public Archives to Celebrate 375th Anniversary

Delaware Public Archives to Celebrate 375th Anniversary of the Landing of Swedes in Delaware. The year 2013 commemorates the 375th anniversary of the landing in Delaware of the Swedish ship Kalmar Nyckel. On April 6 at 10:30 a.m., the Delaware Public Archives will honor the First State’s rich Swedish heritage with a program celebrating the arrival of Swedes in Delaware. Presented by Bill Hutchison, Education Coordinator for the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation, this program will focus on the voyage of the ship to America in 1638 and the founding of the colony of New Sweden on the Delaware. This was the first permanent European settlement established in Delaware and in the area that would become the City of Wilmington. Among the topics to be discussed will be the colonists’ time at sea and their lives at the New Sweden settlement known as Fort Christina.