Dover T-shirts on sale for £15.00
in Curiosity of Dover 17 Cannon Street
Range of sizes available – Small, Medium, Large and Extra Large
White lettering on Black T-Shirt
White lettering on Navy T-Shirt
Black lettering on white T-Shirt
Email doverfilmfestivals@gmail.com

Curiosity of Dover, 17 Cannon Street, Dover
Open on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday

In the 1908 Dover Pageant 43 daughters of Dover were paraded with Mother Dover. Most of the Dovers are in America. Many are lasrger than Dover UK.44 dovers are listed on the back of T-shirts and these can be purchased at the Curiosity Shop in Cannon Street,Dover. The T-shirts will also be available at the Annual Dover Film. There are 20 showings between 1st March and 7th March 2026. The word Dover also comes from the old Scandinavian meaning a ravine, gap, gorge or a crevasse between cliffs. Which could equally apply to Dover England as the Vikings – who came to Kent after the Romans – could have altered the Roman Dubris to Dover. It is in the US where there are the most Dovers and many derive their name from Dover, England due to émigrés who set up homes in places where there were high cliffs. Scandinavian émigrés have also influenced the names of some of the Dovers in the US for the same reasons with those where the original émigrés came from Dovre, Norway, spell it the Norwegian way. [1] Douvres-la-Délivrande, France
[2] Dover, Arkansas, USA
[3] Dover, Barbados, Windward Islands, Carribean
[4] Dover Bridge, Near, Leigh, Lancashire
[5] Dover, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
[6] Dover, Delaware, USA
[7] Dover, Dutchess, New York, USA
[8] Dover Farm School, South Africa
[9] Dover, Foxcroft, Maine, USA
[10] Dover Illinois, USA
[11] Dover, Kentucky, USA
[12] Dover Township, Lenawee, Michigan, USA
[13] Dover, Lafayette County, Missouri, USA
[14] Dover, Massachusetts, New England, USA
[15] Dover Mills, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
[16] Dover Township Otsego County, Michigan, USA
[17] Dover, Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA
Dover was founded as the court town for newly established Kent County in 1683 by William Penn, the proprietor of the territory generally known as the “Lower Counties on the Delaware.” Later, in 1717, the city was officially laid out by a special commission of the Delaware General Assembly. The capital of the state of Delaware was moved here from New Castle in 1777 because of its central location and relative safety from British raiders on the Delaware River. Because of an act passed in October 1779, the assembly elected to meet at any place in the state they saw fit, meeting successively in Wilmington, Lewes, Dover, New Castle, and Lewes again, until it finally settled down permanently in Dover in October 1781.[4] The city’s central square, known as The Green, was the location of many rallies, troop reviews, and other patriotic events. To this day, The Green remains the heart of Dover’s historic district and is the location of the Delaware Supreme Court and the Kent County Courthouse.

Dover was most famously the home of Caesar Rodney, the popular wartime leader of Delaware during the American Revolution. He is known to have been buried outside Dover, but the precise location of his grave is unknown. A cenotaph in his honour is erected in the cemetery of the Christ Episcopal Church[5] near The Green in Dover.

William Quantrill (category People from Dover, Ohio)
Central Kentucky in one of the last engagements of the American Civil War. He died of his wounds in June 1865. William Quantrill was born at Canal Dover, Ohio.
The Miss Vermont USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Vermont in the Miss USA pageant. It is formerly directed by Sanders & Associates, Inc., dba- Pageant Associates based in Buckhannon, West Virginia from 2004 to 2017 before GDB Theatre and Pageant Productions becoming the new directors of the stage pageant since 2018.

Vermont produced a Miss USA, Carlene King Johnson in 1955. The most recent placement was by Kelsey Golonka in 2022 after 40 years, who reached the semifinals. Vermont holds the record for most Miss Congeniality awards, having earned a total of five.