U.S. Route 113 (US 113) extends 75 miles (121 km) from
US 13 in
Pocomoke City, Maryland, north to
Delaware Route 1 in
Milford. The
highway, which until 2003 reconnected with US 13 in
Dover, Delaware, serves the
Maryland towns of
Snow Hill and
Berlin and the
Delaware towns of
Selbyville,
Millsboro, and
Georgetown. It follows the corridor of a
post road established in the late 18th century. The route was improved as an
all-weather road in the 1910s. The Delaware portion of the route, including the
former designation from Milford to Dover, was built by
Thomas Coleman DuPont's company as the DuPont Highway, the first sections of which were completed on May 24, 1917. DuPont foresaw that traffic on highways would approach the speed and volume of railroads, so he designed the highway with a wide right of way and curves and grades adequate for high speed traffic. The DuPont Highway was one of the earliest roads built with bypasses, roads that passed close to towns but not directly through them. US 113 was widened and reconstructed in the 1930s and 1940s, including a bypass of Dover. The route was expanded to a
divided highway starting in the 1950s. (
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The water rail (Rallus aquaticus) is a bird of the
rail family which breeds in well-vegetated
wetlands across Europe, Asia and North Africa. Northern and eastern populations are
migratory, but this
species is a permanent resident in the warmer parts of its breeding range. The adult is 23–28 cm (9–11 in) long, and breeds in reed beds and other marshy sites with tall, dense vegetation. These rails are vulnerable to flooding or freezing conditions, loss of habitat and predation by mammals and large birds. The introduced
American mink has exterminated some island populations, but overall the species' large range and numbers mean that it is not considered to be threatened.
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