Products Made in Delaware

Delaware's industry began on Brandywine Creek, where flour mills ran in the 1700s and E.I. du Pont built gunpowder mills near Wilmington in 1802. Chemicals became the state's main business in the 20th century, and Wilmington also built ships and railroad cars. In Sussex County, raising chickens for meat became an industry in the 1920s, and poultry processing now runs across southern Delaware. RAPA makes pork scrapple and several flavored varieties at its USDA-inspected plant in Bridgeville, the town where it started in 1926.