Flowers for Dover, DE

A common Dover order tells you the town in one line: a welcome-home arrangement bound for a family near the Air Force Base gate, ordered the morning a transport lands. Dover is a military and government town first — the C-5 and C-17 wings out of Dover AFB, Legislative Hall and the state offices ringing The Green, Delaware State University up North DuPont Highway, and the Bayhealth Kent General hospital anchoring the west side off Governors Avenue. The commercial spine is Route 13 running north-south through the city, past the Dover Mall and out toward the Monster Mile at Dover Motor Speedway, where two NASCAR weekends a year turn the whole east side into a traffic problem a local driver has to plan around. Between those poles are the neighborhoods — downtown and the historic district around The Green, the west-side blocks near the hospital and speedway, Camden-Wyoming to the south, and Smyrna up the highway.

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