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Dover has been the county seat since 1680. William Penn ordered the townsite laid out in 1683 and named it Dover, and it was plotted in 1717. It served as the temporary capital in 1777 and has been the permanent capital since 1779. The Federal Constitution was ratified there in 1787, making Delaware the First State in the Union. State Constitutional Conventions were held there in 1791-1792, 1831, 1852, and 1897.
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