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PSP doctoral student Maribel Beas is working with the Lenape community to identify and document their cultural heritage. From an article by Jeff Brown in the Dover Post:
A project to explore the cultural, historical and natural
surroundings of Jolley’s Neck Farm is underway with the collection of
stories, art forms, photos and legends about the families who once
lived, worked, and worshiped in the historic village of Fork Branch. Little
is left today of the once-thriving community except the Little Union
Church and adjacent Fork Branch Cemetery on West Denney’s Road. Interred
there are the direct descendants of the Lenape, Delaware’s “Original
People,” whose heirs today take great pride in their interconnected
ancestries and who still carefully tend the graves. A casual
walk-through reveals names like Carney, Coker, Durham, Johnson, Loatman,
Miller, Mosely, Pritchett, Ridgeway and Sammons. Generations of
intermarriage between their sister communities in Bridgeton, N.J. and
Millsboro, led to these people being known as Delaware Moors, a state
approved ethnic designation still seen on birth certificates and early
driver’s licenses. . . . Open to all direct descendants of those buried in the Fork Branch
Cemetery, the Jolley’s Neck Cultural Mapping Project is partially funded
by the Delaware Humanities Forum.