Delaware Cape Region History in Photographs

A painting of the Carpenters’ Shell House from the...

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A recent Barefootin’ column ( www.capegazette.com/node/175534 ) focused on the Carpenter family’s...

One of the Green Book’s stops in Sussex County

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The Green Book recently earned the Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year from the Academy of...

Cape’s state championship girls basketball team in 1973

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Cape Gazette Sports Editor Emeritus Dave Frederick published this photo on March 11, 2011 when the...

In the dead of winter, cutting rates for business

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This postcard from the mid-20th century is a little far afield for the Cape Gazette but as Delaware...

A Dewey scene familiar to Alice Walsh in the mid 1900s

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An explanation on the back of this postcard from the 1950s reports that the view is looking toward...

Rehoboth Airport from the air in the 1960s

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A recent historic photograph in the Cape Gazette showed the Rehoboth Airport - in black and white...

Interior of Groome Methodist Protestant Church in 1945

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Most people are aware of Groome United Methodist Church because of the land its congregation has...

Rehoboth Airport as it looked from the air in 1949

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Dave Kenton, via his son Casey, passed along this aerial photo of the Rehoboth Airport in 1949...

Road builders, tree planters in the 1930s

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Trail-building work underway in Delaware’s Cape Region brings forth memories of work done in the...

Rehoboth’s Silver Lake Bridge when it was fairly new

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Delaware’s Department of Transportation recently completed repairs to Rehoboth Beach’s Silver Lake...

Kiwanis, Key Club refurbished Rehoboth nativity

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The removal of the Rehoboth Beach nativity scene from the Bandstand property stirred a lot of...

Rehoboth Public School valued at $251,305 in 1941

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For insurance purposes, the State of Delaware photographed and appraised the value of all state-...

Sending Christmas greetings home from Japan

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After World War II ended in 1945, American armed forces occupied defeated Japan for a number of...

Notched-log corn cribs from the early 1900s

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This 1955 photograph from the Ernest Collection of Country Store Photographs shows a pair of corn...

Rehoboth Beach vacationing in the 1940s

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Jeanne Smith of Lewes found this photograph in some family files. It shows her mom mom and pop pop...

Thanksgiving a time to celebrate the harvest

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This photograph from 1914 shows a steel-wheeled Moline tractor supplying leather-belt-driven power...

A Return Day float from the mid-20th century

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This picture postcard from the 1950s shows that Return Day traditions haven’t changed much through...

Stirring Up Support For Prohibition In 1917

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Pro-prohibition organizations distributed this postcard in Wilmington before the November election...

Beebe Hospital As It Had Evolved In Mid-20th Century

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This postcard from the mid-20th century shows Beebe Hospital when its main entrance was in the Shaw...

The Schooners Of Milton In The Early 20th Century

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This postcard was mailed from Milton in 1908. It shows wharves in the Broadkill River in downtown...

Graphic testimony to Dutch heritage in 1927

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Kill in Dutch can be translated as river. So when the new drawbridge across the Broadkill River...

Lewes Yacht Club in its early days

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Lewes Yacht Club, located at the end of Cedar Street in Lewes, fronts on Delaware Bay, Roosevelt...

Lewes Beach an auto destination in 1930

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This photograph from September of 1930 shows that then, as now, Lewes Beach and its public parking...

The Circle in Georgetown from the air in 1970

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This aerial photograph from March of 1970 shows downtown Georgetown and its Circle, and the streets...

Autumn hurricane in 1944 drove Thomas Tracy tanker...

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This postcard mailed from Rehoboth Beach in the summer of 1945 shows the freighter Thomas Tracy...

Work in Lewes in 1915 meant fishing for menhaden

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More in the spirit of the Labor Day holiday: In 1915 when this postcard was mailed, hundreds of...

The heart of Dewey Beach a half century ago

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This aerial photograph from the 1950s shows the heart of Dewey Beach, from sea to bay, with its...

The Main Downtown Area Of Broadkill Beach In The...

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The main road running parallel to the beach is paved now, and there are more beach cottages, but...

Ocean City Charter Fishing fleet in the mid-1900s

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Many eyes were on the Ocean City, Md. annual white marlin fishing tournament last week - a cash-...

“Peaches ripen in the summertime, apples ripen in . ...

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". . . the fall. If I can't have the one I love I don't want no one at all." This verse from a...

Beach scene in Rehoboth more than 100 years ago

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This picture postcard was mailed in August of 1914 and shows swimmers enjoying the ocean at...

Cornstalk shocks on a Dover field in the early 1900s

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Across Sussex County, corn in fields without irrigation was beginning to burn up in July. Some of...

Fort Miles Battery 519 in earliest days of Cape...

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This photograph was posted recently on the Fort Miles Historical Association's website. It shows...

Recreation and religion in mid-20th century

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This picture postcard from the George and Irene Caley Post Card Collection dates back to the mid...

Hotel at Rosedale Beach in the mid-1950s

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From the 1900s to the 1970s, the pre-integration era of the United States, the hotel and resort...

Slaughter Beach waterfront in the early 20th century

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This postcard from about 1905 shows waterfront houses built just back from the dunes and on the...

Oak Orchard bathing scene from early 1900s

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Through the early to mid 1900s, Oak Orchard on Indian River was a popular summer resort complete...

Lewes industry in the mid 1930s

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Everett Bryan was a pharmacist in Lewes in the first half of the 20th century who also had an...

Taking strawberries to market in Selbyville in 1925

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We're at the peak of the strawberry season in Sussex County. The crop has provided a nice spring...

Rehoboth’s Silver Lake Bridge on a 1929 Postcard

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This postcard showing the Silver Lake Bridge in Rehoboth Beach was mailed in 1929, so the bridge at...

Railroad crossings in Lewes in the 1930s

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Since the decommissioning of the railroad line between Cool Spring and Lewes, the state has been...

White House Farm on Long Neck in mid-1900s

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This postcard from the mid-1900s shows the manufactured housing development known as White House...

Headquarters for the Coleman DuPont Highway...

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When the Coleman DuPont Highway was being built from north to south through Sussex County in the...

Fisher-Martin House long before it was preserved

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This photograph shows what preservation is all about. Cortland Hubbard made the image in October of...

Silver Lake fishing pier before the 1950s

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On April 27, Rehoboth's Village Improvement Association will commemorate its 1963 Lake Gerar...

An idealized photograph of pre-1950s Rehoboth Beach

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One date associated with information included with this postcard in the Caley collection indicates...

Rehoboth’s Lake Gerar in the mid 1900s

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This postcard shows the Children’s Fishing Pier at Lake Gerar in Rehoboth Beach sometime in the...

Seining for fish at Bowers Beach in 1917

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There was a time in Delaware when people hauled long nets along the shoreline to catch trout, blues...

Rehoboth Beach with a train in the early 1920s

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We have railroads on the mind this week. Crews have been pulling up the crossing equipment related...

Public schools have to be replaced from time to time

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With schools in the news this week because of the Cape referendum, here’s a reminder that schools...

Rehoboth Beach Easter Promenade winners in 1953

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Ginnie Savage Caras sent us this photo recently. Shown are winners of the Easter Promenade in...

A new sign for Lewes posted during 1976 Bicentennial

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Esthelda Parker-Selby brought in this clipping recently from a 1976 edition of The Whale newspaper...

The marina at Indian River Inlet in mid-1950s

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This picture postcard from the mid-1950s shows the marina on the north side of Indian River Inlet...

Milton and the Broadkill River in 1913

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This postcard with a postmark dated 1913 shows downtown Milton looking westward from a point on the...

Rehoboth’s Park Avenue in the early 1900s

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Park Avenue in Rehoboth Beach, one of the city's last dirt streets, was in the news recently...

Delaware football 116 years ago

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It’s a footbally time of the year across the nation with National Football League playoffs in full...

Early 1900s winter ice threatening boardwalk and...

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Lewes Historical Society Executive Director Mike DiPaolo sent along this photograph showing another...

A graphic reminder of what January cold snaps can bring

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This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) satellite image shows the mid-Atlantic...

The Circle in Georgetown when it was still called...

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This image of the center of Georgetown - Sussex County's seat of government - appeared on a picture...

A holiday card from Beebe when the hospital was 12

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In 1928, when Beebe Hospital in Lewes was 12 years old, Drs. James and Richard Beebe and their...