DOVER, the capital city of Delaware, U.S.A., and the county seat of Kent county, on the St. Jones river, in the central part of the State. It is on Federal highway 13, and is served by the Pennsylvania railroad. The poulation was 4,042 in 192o (26% negroes) and was 4,80o in 193o by the Federal census. The State• house, built about 1722 for a court-house and remodelled in 1791 for its present purpose, is a beautiful building of dignified colo nial architecture, set in a spacious green. Near Dover still stands the home of Caesar Rodney (1728-1784), who rode to Philadel phia through the night of July 3, 1776, in order to be present at the roll call on the Declaration of Independence, and thus made possible a unanimous vote of the 13 Colonies in favour of its adop tion. Dover is a shipping point for the strawberries, apples, peaches, grapes, poultry, vegetables and other products of the fertile surrounding country, and has many canneries and packing plants, including one of the oldest and largest in the country (established 1855). The State college for coloured students (1892) is near the city. Dover was laid out in 1717, by order of William Penn. In 1777 it replaced New Castle as the capital of the State. It was incorporated as a town in 1829, and re-incor porated as a city in 1925 with an area almost double its former size.