Roosevelt worked for the DuPont company from 1936 to 1941.

The name originates from the fact that the DuPont company arranged the sale of the original tract to the state.

In 1905, the DuPont company opened an explosives plant just outside town, providing an important source of employment as timber resources were growing scarce.

During the 1930s and 1940s, the DuPont company commercialized organofluorine compounds at large scales.

It was established in 1903 as an effort to move the DuPont Company from gunpowder and explosives into the new age of chemistry.

His father retired as a vice president of human resources for the DuPont Company in Wilmington.

The DuPont company became a major supplier to the U.S. military.

He grew up in Delaware where his father was an auditor with the DuPont Company.

In the mid-1990's, Monsanto, the DuPont Company and others bought the seed industry.

A protective tariff on gunpowder manufacture followed, which helped ensure the fortunes of the DuPont company.