The use of the name Delmarva occurred on 10 February 1877 in the Middleton Transcript newspaper in Middleton .
While Delmar was founded and named in 1859 , the earliest uses of the name Delmarva occurred several decades later and appear to have been commercial ; for example , the Delmarva Heat , Light , and Refrigerating Corp. of Chincoteague , Virginia , was in existence by 1913Annual 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.—but general use of the term did not occur until the 1920s .
Delmarva Peninsula