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Delaware Cape Region History in Photographs
Future Homemakers of America at Lewes High in 1963
1 year ago
Things have changed a lot in the last 60 years. At Lewes High School in 1963, a group of young...
Cape Henlopen school board in 1972
1 year ago
There will be an election this year for the Cape Henlopen School District Board of Education. We...
Lewes High School girls’ basketball 1935-36
1 year ago
The Cape Henlopen High School girls’ basketball team is fighting for a state championship, after...
The long history of the Cannonball House
1 year ago
The historic Cannonball House in Lewes has been in the news recently after it was discovered a...
Sussex headquarters was once a post office
1 year ago
Before becoming the home of the Sussex County government, the building at 2 The Circle in...
Lloyd’s Market a staple of Lewes since 1971
1 year ago
There are few things synonymous with Lewes, but Lloyd’s Market is certainly one of them. Lloyd and...
Blue Diamond railroad lasts only six months
1 year ago
A Cape Gazette subscriber recently shared this historical item showing a train schedule effective...
Rehoboth’s lighthouse replica has long history
1 year ago
Millions of people have been welcomed to Rehoboth Beach by the Cape Henlopen Lighthouse replica...
Milton Masonic lodge dates back to 19th century
1 year ago
If someone from the late 1800s was transported to Milton in 2023, they might see a familiar...
Lewes Union School once stood on Savannah Road
1 year ago
If still in existence today, the Lewes Union School would stand on Savannah Road about where Beebe...
Houston-White Co. thrived in Millsboro
1 year ago
Houston-White Co. was a mill and basket company founded in the late 19th century that thrived in...
Unique look at Second Street in the 1940s
1 year ago
Thousands of people have wandered through the St. Peter’s Episcopal Church cemetery on Second...
Broadkill Beach in the 1970s
1 year ago
Broadkill Beach is an unincorporated beach community north of Lewes and east of Milton. For many,...
Lewes Polar Bears plunge into new millennium
1 year ago
As is tradition, a group of polar bears will jump into the ocean Jan. 1 at Cape Henlopen State Park...
Rehoboth Avenue bridge over the canal 60 years ago
1 year ago
The front page story of the Dec. 23 edition focused on the dissolution of the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal...
Celebrating Christmas in Rehoboth Beach
1 year ago
A Christmas tree at The Bandstand in Rehoboth Beach is a holiday tradition. This photograph appears...
Spreading Christmas cheer to Delaware’s troops
1 year ago
The entire country participated in the war effort during World War II, including providing...
Blue Moon Restaurant in Lewes in 1941
1 year ago
Before the Blue Moon on Baltimore Avenue in Rehoboth Beach, there was the Blue Moon Restaurant on...
Getting groceries at the Rehoboth A&P in 1960
1 year ago
Many longtime Cape Region locals will remember the A&P grocery store on the Forgotten Mile...
Camp Henlopen before establishment of Fort Miles
1 year ago
A few years before Fort Miles was established at today’s Cape Henlopen State Park, the U.S...
A very different Five Points
1 year ago
The front page of our Nov. 18 edition featured a story about the impending demolition of the Bests...
Aerial look at Lewes in 1939
1 year ago
Lewes is a town steeped in history, and some of that history is documented in this 1939 aerial...
Return Day in 1960
1 year ago
There have been two stories about Return Day in recent editions of the Cape Gazette – one in the...
Rehoboth train on the Avenue in 1925
1 year ago
The Rehoboth Beach Museum recently held a two-part lecture called, “Ferries, Trains, and...
Hotel Rodney hasn’t changed much in 96 years
1 year ago
If you stood on Second Street in Lewes across from St. Peter’s Episcopal Church today and looked at...
Blood clinic at Fort Miles gym
1 year ago
A few weeks ago, we shared a photograph taken before a 1940s boxing match at the Fort Miles gym. In...
Lewes School in the 1920s
1 year ago
Students moved into Lewes Elementary School in April, paving the way for Richard A. Shields...
Cape Henlopen State Park bathhouse under construction
1 year ago
Cape Henlopen State Park has been in the news recently, as state officials consider allowing a...
Boxing at Fort Miles in the 1940s
1 year ago
Athletic activities relieved stress and kept the men of Fort Miles in shape. In addition to boxing...
Silver Lake in Rehoboth, before fountains
1 year ago
Silver Lake in Rehoboth Beach has been mentioned a few articles in the Cape Gazette recently. The...
Thomas Tracy wrecks in Rehoboth Sept. 14, 1944
1 year ago
The 250-foot freighter Thomas Tracy was blown ashore at Brooklyn Avenue in Rehoboth Beach Sept. 14...
‘Then came Labor Day’
1 year ago
The four-word phrase on this postcard from the Delaware Public Archives’ Caley Postcard Collection...
Milton celebrates sesquicentennial in August 1957
1 year ago
The Town of Milton celebrated its sesquicentennial in August of 1957. Shown in this photograph are...
Du Pont connection to Henlopen Acres home
1 year ago
A few weeks ago, we featured an aerial photograph of Henlopen Acres in 1936. This home, commonly...
Camping thrived at Key Box Road in the 1950s
1 year ago
The popularity of camping at Key Box Road south of Dewey Beach exploded in the 1950s. According to...
The Great Milton Fire of 1909
1 year ago
Disaster struck in Milton the morning of Aug. 13, 1909. A fire was discovered about 1 a.m. by the...
The birth of Henlopen Acres in 1930
1 year ago
This photograph made around 1930 hangs inside Henlopen Acres Town Hall. It shows a group of people...
Delaware State Fair a century ago
1 year ago
The Delaware State Fair as we know it today was founded in 1919 as the Kent and Sussex County Fair...
Stokely Brothers & Company cannery in 1931
1 year ago
The Stokely Brothers & Company purchased a cannery along the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal just south of...
Rehoboth Beach Patrol in 1950
1 year ago
Although technically it’s the 101st anniversary of Rehoboth Beach Patrol this summer, the...
Aerial look at Rehoboth in 1932
1 year ago
Now that we’ve reached the peak tourist season in the Cape Region, let’s take a look at Rehoboth...
Doo-Dah Parade is a Lewes tradition
1 year ago
The Doo-Dah Parade has been a Lewes tradition for more than 50 years. Although it’s never been an...
Lewes pie-eating contest in 1950
1 year ago
A pie-eating contest has been part of Lewes’ Fourth of July tradition for decades. This 1950...
Rehoboth’s Bright House Hotel in the late 19th century
1 year ago
Cape Gazette reporter Chris Flood wrote an article in the Friday, June 17 edition about Rehoboth...
HMS DeBraak was found in Lewes 37 years ago
1 year ago
In 1985, salvagers used emerging sidescan sonar technology to detect the location of the sunken HMS...
Original MV Cape Henlopen participated in D-Day
1 year ago
The Cape May-Lewes Ferry has transported more than 45 million passengers across the Delaware Bay...
Drive-on beaches are a Delaware tradition
1 year ago
Now that the unofficial start of summer has arrived, the drive-on beaches at Delaware state parks...
Beach day at Cape Henlopen State Park
1 year ago
If this past weekend’s weather is any indication, summer temperatures have finally arrived in the...
Fort Miles soldiers check the weather
1 year ago
The Cape Region has had wild weather from winter through the spring. From one week to another,...
Mayor Otis Smith celebrates Lewes’ 325th anniversary
1 year ago
For the first time in many years, Lewes will have a mayoral election Saturday, May 14. Over the...
Sussex County Courthouse in 1924
2 years ago
The Sussex County Courthouse is one of Georgetown’s iconic historic structures. This photograph...
Lewes’ Fountain of Youth
2 years ago
If you’re searching for the Fountain of Youth, look no further than Lewes. It isn’t exactly a...
Rehoboth Beach Country Club’s original nine-hole layout
2 years ago
With temperatures consistently breaking 60 degrees, golf courses throughout the Cape Region are...
Cape Henlopen Lighthouse fell into the sea 96 years ago
2 years ago
On April 13, 1926, the Cape Henlopen Lighthouse fell into the Atlantic Ocean. Built in 1765, it was...
Lewes’ 1812 Park commemorates British bombardment
2 years ago
Lewes’ 1812 Park commemorates the defense of the First Town in the First State during an 1813...
Baseball season is upon us
2 years ago
High school baseball season kicked off last week, with Major League Baseball slated for a slightly...
Seeing a film at The Avenue movie theater in Rehoboth
2 years ago
Long before the Movies at Midway opened on Route 1, Rehoboth Beach had its very own single-screen...
A look at Milton’s inaugural St. Patrick’s Day parade
2 years ago
This week we’re traveling back to the spring of 2008. On March 16 of that year, the first St...
Stuart Kingston damaged in Storm of ’62
2 years ago
We here at the Cape Gazette try to connect our weekly historic photograph with something in the...
Beebe Healthcare’s long history in Sussex County
2 years ago
It was announced March 1 that Beebe Healthcare will be opening the R. Randall Rollins Center for...
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