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The DuPont Highway

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The original DuPont Highway was the nation's first divided highway when its expansion between Dover and Wilmington was completed in 1934.

Found on maps as Route 13 between Dover and Wilmington and as Route 113 between Dover and the southern border with Maryland, it had been officially dedicated 10 years earlier as the Coleman DuPont Road. Thomas Coleman du Pont, a descendant of E. I. du Pont and a two—time U.S. senator, had championed the road and paid nearly $4 million of his own money tow...