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	Pea Patch Island - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Pea Patch Island is a small island, approximately 1 mi (1.6 km) long, in the U.S. state of Delaware, located in the mid channel of the Delaware River near its entrance into Delaware Bay.
		The island emerged as a mud bank in the river in the 18th century.
		According to folklore, the island received its name after a ship full of peas ran aground on it, spilling its contents and leading to a growth of the plant on the island.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Pea_Patch_Island (316 words)

	Pea Patch Island -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		According to folklore, the island received its name after a ship full of (A leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds) peas ran aground on it, spilling its contents and leading to a growth of the plant on the island.
		The island is publicly accessible by (A boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule) ferry from both the Delaware and New Jersey banks.
		It is the location of the largest colony of (Gray or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill) herons in the U.S. north of (A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War) Florida.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pe/Pea_Patch_Island.htm (332 words)

	Pea Patch Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		It is a low, marshy island, located in New Castle County, facing Delaware City on the Delware shore, and FinnsPoint on the New Jersey shore.
		The island emerged as a mud bank in the river in the 18th century.According to folklore, the island received its name after a ship full of peas ran aground onit, spilling its contents and leading to a growth of the plant on the island.
		The island is publicly accessible by ferry from both the Delaware and New Jerseybanks.
	www.therfcc.org /pea-patch-island-216304.html (312 words)

	Encyclopedia: Roosevelt Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		9,500, is a long, narrow island in the East River of New York City, lying between the island of Manhattan to its west and Queens on Long Island to its east.
		It was named Manning's Island after captain John Manning from 1666 to 1686, Blackwells Island from 1686 to 1921 and Welfare Island from 1921 to 1973, when it was renamed Roosevelt Island in anticipation of the building of a major memorial monument to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
		In recent years the island has been developed as a residential community with a number of high-rise apartment buildings; the long-term care facilities remain at both the northern (Coler Hospital) and southern (Goldwater Hospital) ends of the island.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Roosevelt-Island (2020 words)

	Reedy Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reedy Island is a small island in the middle of the channel of the Delaware River near its mouth on Delaware Bay in the U.S. state of Delaware.
		The island is the location of Reedy Island Range Rear Light, a historic lighthouse first established in 1839.
		The nearby keeper's house was destroyed by arson in 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reedy_Island (123 words)

	Fort Delaware - History
		The island was known locally as "Pea Patch." Folklore suggests that a boat carrying peas was grounded on its soft shores, which resembled more of a swampy collection of grass than any solid land, and soon there sprouted the crop from which it derives its name.
		In 1838, a ghost from Pea Patch Island's past came back to haunt the government, and stall their monumental plan.
		Brevet Major John Sanders reported to Pea Patch Island in March of 1848 to find that a record flood in 1846 had destroyed most of the material that had been left behind by Delafield a decade earlier.
	www.visitthefort.com /historyx.html (2075 words)

	pea patch island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Pea Patch Island, located in the upper reach of the Delaware Estuary, emerged from the Delaware River in...
		Today Pea Patch Island is a Delaware State Park, protected for its...
		The Pea Patch Estate on the beautiful Caribbean island of Bequia is now available for holiday rentals.
	www.1st-in-patchwork.com /15/pea-patch-island.html (528 words)

	Gardening On Bainbridge Island - Pea Patch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The Bainbridge Island Park & Recreation District provides 28 community garden plots at Battle Point Park, each measuring 15' x 30', or 450 square feet.
		The plots are assigned to Bainbridge Island residents with priority going to last year's participants.
		A waiting list is kept by the Park District and plots are assigned on a first come, first served basis.
	www.bicomnet.com /gardening/peapatch.htm (100 words)

	Restoration Activities - Presidente Rivera Oil Spill - Northeast Region - DARP
		Restoration achievements include erosion stabilization along Pea Patch Island, located off of New Castle County in the upper reach of the Delaware Estuary.
		Pea Patch Island emerged in the late 1700s as a mud bank and progressively grew in size.
		In 1997, a pier from the civil war era was restored in Salem County, N.J., referred to as the Fort Mott Pier.
	www.darp.noaa.gov /northeast/presidente/restore.html (802 words)

	Something Fishy At Fort Delaware
		The 178 acre island got its name from a colonial-era legend that a boat loaded with peas ran aground on a river shoal and that the peas took root and sprouted in the sandy loam.
		Years passed, and with the peas' roots and vines as anchors, a more substantial island was created by silt, small trees, and sand dunes and grasses.
		The only other man-made structure on the island is a small revetment and hut on the north side of the island, where a control station for the remote control mines that defended the shipping channel are located (B).
	www.heliograph.com /trmgs/trmgs1/fishy.shtml (3364 words)

	Pea Ridge - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Pea Ridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		It is the site of the Battle of Pea Ridge (or Elkhorn Tavern), 7–8 March 1862, the most significant Civil War engagement in Arkansas.
		The Pea Ridge National Military Park, extending over an area of 1,742 ha/4,300 ac, preserves the battleground.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Pea%20Ridge (150 words)

	DAS ONLINE: Pea Patch Heronry IBA
		A ceremony celebrating the designation of the Pea Patch Island Heronry as a Continentally Important Bird Area (IBA) was held Saturday, April 27, 2002, at Battery Park in Delaware City.
		Now is a great time to visit the island to see the heronry because birds are now active in their nests and the island's healthy bug population is relatively low.
		Pea Patch Island is one of the largest and most species diverse heronries on the East Coast, boasting nesting pairs of Great Blue Herons, Little Blue Herons, Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, Cattle Egrets, Glossy Ibis, Black-crowned Night Herons, Yellow-crowned Night Herons Tri-colored Herons and Green Herons.
	www.delawareaudubon.org /birding/peapatchiba.html (257 words)

	Delaware City - Fort Delaware
		Pea Patch Island's important strategic position for the defense of Wilmington and Philadelphia against naval attack was recognized in 1819 when the first fort was built on the island.
		The island fortress, combined with gun batteries at what is now Fort DuPont on the Delaware shore and at what is now Fort Mott, New Jersey, formed an imposing defensive system.
		Combined with the civilian and Union population, the island's population reached close to 16,000 people making it, some say, the largest city in Delaware for a brief period.
	www.delawarecity.info /history_fortdel.html (929 words)

	DCP's Pea Patch Island SAMP
		Pea Patch Island heronry is the largest heronry north of Florida on the east coast.
		Research conducted during the last 5 years shows that nearly half of the chicks born on the island died before they were large enough to leave the nest.
		The herons that live on the island forage for food in the neighboring wetlands and open fields of Delaware and New Jersey.
	www.dnrec.state.de.us /dnrec2000/Divisions/Soil/dcmp/ppi.htm (549 words)

	Pea Patch Island, Delaware DE, profile (New Castle County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Pea Patch Island, DE Pea Patch Island is in New Castle County, in the Philadelphia-Camden metro area.
		The latitude of Pea Patch Island is 39.589N.
		Pea Patch Island is in the Delaware River
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=9070 (492 words)

	Andersonville of the North: The Ghosts on Pea Patch Island
		Andersonville of the North: The Ghosts on Pea Patch Island
		For the Confederate prisoners on Pea Patch Island, the shore of Delaware City was tantalizingly near.
		Though a government official had recommended that a fort be built on the island, earthworks were not constructed until 1813.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/civil_war_ghosts/77733 (533 words)

	Champion of Delaware's coastal wetlands (1996)
		Currently, he's "doing some highly technical work with specialized water quality sampling, stormwater sampling and computer modeling" and can often be found slogging through the marsh grasses, supervising his team of engineers and biologists as they gather data about water birds and water quality.
		Pea Patch Island is surrounded by waters containing large amounts of industrial and municipal waste and is directly affected by oil spills.
		We're using the heron as one of the indicators of the regional ecosystem," he explains, "because it's so dependent on a much larger region." Another of his tasks is to use the data to formulate policy that will keep not only the heronry but the entire ecosystem healthy.
	www.udel.edu /PR/Messenger/96/2/15.html (878 words)

	Delaware City, Delaware. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		FORT DELAWARE STATE PARK,located on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River across from Delaware City, is one of Delaware's most cherished historic sites.
		Pea Patch Island is also the site of a 90-acre heron-nesting grounds for nine different species of birds.
		The Fort began operation in 1863 an auxiliary gun battery for Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island and was part of the principal defense structure for the Delaware River.
	www.delnet.com /org/dc (752 words)

	CENAP-PL-E-02-01
		This environmental assessment supplements one that was prepared in May 1999 and one that was prepared in June 2000 to assess changes in the project that have been made since the publication of these two documents.
		One alternative that is being considered is using a staggered breakwater to protect the eroding wetlands at the southwest corner of Pea Patch Island and permit egress and ingress by mobile aquatic organisms such as fish.
		The proposal will address preventing the continuing erosion in this area which is located on the north east side of the island where continuing erosion threatens to separate the heron colony from the rest of the island.
	www.nap.usace.army.mil /cenap-pa/CENAP-PL-E-02-03.htm (1060 words)

	A Brief History and Tour of Fort Delaware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Fort Delaware is situated on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River, one mile east of Delaware City.
		The island was named after a Colonial-era legend that a boat loaded with peas ran aground on a river shoal, and then the peas sprouted in the sandy loam.
		With only a few known exceptions, the Confederate remains buried in Delaware and the few Confederate and Union remains buried on Pea Patch Island were removed and taken to Finns Point in the 1870s.
	www.delnet.com /org/fort/history1.htm (1477 words)

	Patch * Two Prayers for Patches Little... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The Briar Patch The Trial of the Panther 21.
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		Barefoot in an Oklahoma Sticker Patch Memories from Childhood in Rural Oklahoma County.
	www.decurio.de /?decu_search=Patch (530 words)

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		Pea Patch Island can be seen from most rooms at the Olde Canal Inn.
		Pea Patch Island is more than a historical fort.
		Pea Patch Island is reached by ferry that departs from a dock on the waterfront in
	www.oldecanalinn.com /OldeCanalInnWe/Page_15x.html (528 words)

	DCP's Pea Patch Island SAMP
		In 1814, after the mud bank had grown and formed into an island, a military fort, Fort Delaware, was built to guard river access to New Castle, Wilmington, and Philadelphia.
		Today Pea Patch Island is a Delaware State Park, protected for its historical past and because it supports a large heron rookery.
		Identifying what may be affecting the bird population at Pea Patch Island involves looking at more than the immediate nesting habitat on the island.
	www.dnrec.state.de.us /DNREC2000/Divisions/Soil/dcmp/ppi.htm (549 words)

	Wildernet - Fort Delaware State Park
		Pea Patch Island also features many natural treasures.
		The island is a summer home to nine different species of herons, egrets, and ibis.
		Please note that no pets are allowed on Pea Patch Island and there are no private docking facilities.
	www.wildernet.com /pages/area.cfm?areaid=DESPFD (625 words)

	Fort Delaware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The marshy location, inclement weather, brutal treatment, and overcrowded conditions at Fort Delaware prisoner-of-war camp on Pea Patch Island in the middle of the Delaware River all combined to make the Confederate inmates miserable.
		It was the starvation diet, however, that imposed the greatest hardship and led to the most deaths.
		It was a standard joke that the soup was too weak to drown the rice worms and pea bugs, which however came to their end by starvation." A Georgia private wrote, "Our rations consisted of one-fourth of a half-pound loaf of bread, twice a day.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /PrisonsParolesAndPOWs/fortdelaware.html (364 words)

	Pea Patch Island, DE (New Castle County) - housing guide - ePodunk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Delaware > All counties > New Castle County > Pea Patch Island, DE Pea Patch Island, DE
		Growth trend: Pea Patch Island is in one of the fastest growing counties in the state.
		According to Census Bureau estimates, the population of New Castle County increased by 3.0% from 2000 to 2003.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/movInfo.php?locIndex=9070 (222 words)

	delaware bay pea patch island
		Check out Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island in the middle of the Delaware River.
		This island served as a POW camp for captured Confederate soldiers in addition to its original purpose.
		The island is also known to support nesting populations of some of the bigger wading birds.
	www.dig-itmag.com /columns/roadlesstrammeled_more/126_0_27_0_M (608 words)

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