{"id":66,"date":"2020-01-09T12:58:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T17:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/saving-white-clay-creek\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2024-07-30T10:48:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T15:48:42","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/saving-white-clay-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Saving White Clay Creek: The Charge of the Dorothy Miller Brigade<\/strong>&nbsp;pays tribute to Dorothy Miller, a citizen of Newark who died at age 84 on February 22, 2016. &nbsp;Dorothy Miller was a birder and nature lover turned activist who is widely regarded as the coalition builder who successfully fought a proposed damming of White Clay Creek in the 1960s.&nbsp; Saving White Clay Creek was the first step in allying citizens, conservation-minded organizations, the DuPont Company, and the state governments of Delaware and Pennsylvania to acquire and preserve open space to protect the entire White Clay Creek Watershed.&nbsp; By an act of Congress, the White Clay Creek was declared a National Wild and Scenic River in 2000.&nbsp; One of only 208 Wild and Scenic Rivers in the United States, White Clay Creek is unique for its designation of the entire watershed, not just a river section, in the National Wild and Scenic River System.&nbsp; This watershed spans 107 square miles across two states and the combined recreational and scenic creek and tributaries span 199 miles.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"804\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/saving-white-clay-creek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2020\/07\/Miller_poster_final-1024x804.jpg\" alt=\"Poster for &quot;Saving White Clay Creek: The Charge of the Dorothy Miller Brigade&quot; exhibition featuring an image of White Clay Creek and a map of New Castle County\" class=\"wp-image-126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/saving-white-clay-creek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2020\/07\/Miller_poster_final-1024x804.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/saving-white-clay-creek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2020\/07\/Miller_poster_final-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/saving-white-clay-creek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2020\/07\/Miller_poster_final-768x603.jpg 768w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/saving-white-clay-creek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2020\/07\/Miller_poster_final-1536x1207.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/saving-white-clay-creek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2020\/07\/Miller_poster_final.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Items on display in Library exhibit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Delaware Nature Education Center,&nbsp; Inc., Observations on the ecology of the White Clay Creek Valley with particular reference to the effect of a proposed dam, prepared for the New Castle County Government, 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Coalition for Natural Stream Valleys, \u201cYour presence is needed at a public hearing \u2026 \u201c (memorandum), 1974 June 25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Citizens for White Clay Creek, End of 1984 report (memorandum), 1984 December<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. National Park Service, White Clay Creek National Wild and Scenic River Watershed Management Committee, 2006 Update (report), 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All items are from the Dorothy P. Miller papers, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, unless otherwise noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Credits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Curated by L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin. 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