Dover has a lovely historic downtown. In 1787, the Delaware Legislature ratified its constitution, becoming the first state of the USA.

The Delaware state house

The village green

Dover city center

A bank building in the historic downtown area.
There’s a thriving Amish community in Dover and its environs. Their buggies are a common site around the area.

An Amish buggy. Note that no faces are visible. That’s on purpose. The Amish don’t like having their pictures taken because of this passage from Exodus: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.” That seems to forbid any photography, even natural scenery, but what it comes down to is that the Amish value humility and think posing for photographs is vanity. Typically, if you want to take a picture of an Amish person, you need to ask for permission first and they will typically allow it if it’s in the process of them doing their normal work, but they won’t want to stop and pose for a picture. But each Amish community sets their own rules, and the ultra-conservative Amish will not allow photographs.

Amish farmhouses always seem to be white on white.
