The impact of a military establishment on an adjacent community: a study of the Dover, Delaware - Dover Air Force Base comples.
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Dover, Delaware at mid-century was a city proud of
its colonial heritage, interested mainly in preserving its
quiet reserved way of life, its historical "buildings and
its tree lined-streets. In 1949, Dover was reported as
being "a calm unhurried city of homes;" a city "not interested
in industrial payrolls." As the State capitol and
the retail trade center of the surrounding agricultural
counties, Dover had almost doubled its population in the
first half of the twentieth century. Although this rate
of growth could hardly be considered spectacular, it was
one which seemed to satisfy a majority of the local citizenry.