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DELAWARE VALLEY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF history
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In 1894, Joseph Krauskopf, an activist rabbi and tireless advocate for social justice, traveled to Russia hoping to convince the Czar to let Jews own land and pursue agriculture like their ancestors.
1914 Henry Francis duPont sold the mixed breed of Guernsey and Holstein cattle and develops a better, more productive breed.
1920 The first fair opened on July 27 in Harrington.
1920 The Supplee-Wills-Jones milk station at Nassau was built as a rail shipping point for the Lewes-Rehoboth area.
1923 Cecile Steele experimented with using larger houses to raise their birds, inspiring the modern broiler industry.
1941 The University of Delaware purchased the Tyndall farm west of Georgetown developing an agricultural extension and research station.
In 1998, DelVal entered the field of graduate education with its first Master of Science degree in educational leadership, later followed by two Master of Business Administration degrees, in general business and food and agribusiness.
In 2010, the institution secured a $30 million gift from the Warwick Foundation, the largest in its history.
In December 2014, the Pennsylvania Department of Education approved DelVal’s application to become a university.
On April 8, 2015, DelVal revealed its new logo and celebrated its name change from Delaware Valley College to Delaware Valley University.
On July 1, 2016, Doctor Maria Gallo became DelVal’s 13th (and first female) president.
2018 About 90 percent of farms are either sole or family proprietorships or family-owned corporations.
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