Editing Delmarva Peninsula (section)

==Etymology==
In older sources, the peninsula between Delaware Bay and Chesapeake Bay was variously known as the Delaware and Chesapeake Peninsula or simply the Chesapeake Peninsula.

The toponym ''Delmarva'' is a [[clipped compound]] of [[Delaware]], [[Maryland]], and [[Virginia]] ([[ISO 3166-2:US#Current codes|official abbreviation]] ''VA''), which in turn was modeled after [[Delmar, Maryland|Delmar]], a border town named after Delaware and Maryland. While Delmar was founded and named in 1859, the earliest uses of the name Delmarva occurred several years later (for example on February 10, 1877, in ''The Middletown Transcript'' newspaper in [[Middletown, Delaware]]<ref>{{cite news |date=February 10, 1877 |title=Public Sale |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026820/1877-02-10/ed-1/seq-2/ |editor1-last=Reynolds |editor1-first=Edward |work=The Middletown Transcript |volume=X |issue=6 |at=p. 2, col. 5 |access-date=March 7, 2022 |via=[[Chronicling America]]}}</ref>) and appear to have been commercial and [[boosterism|booster]]-driven; for example, the ''Delmarva Heat, Light, and Refrigerating Corp.'' of [[Chincoteague, Virginia]], was in existence by 1913<ref>''Annual Report of the Secretary of the Commonwealth to the Governor and General Assembly of Virginia for the Year Ending September 30, 1914'' (Richmond, Va., 1915), p. 267.</ref>—but general use of the term did not occur until the 1920s.<ref>''See, e.g.'', Michael F. Mulrooney, ''The Delmarva Peninsula'' (Wilmington, Del.?: Hearn Oil Co., 1926): the earliest use of the name in a title, per [[WorldCat]].{{Original research inline|date=March 2022|certain=y}}</ref>