Delaware Cape Region History in Photographs

Delaware Cape Region History in Photographs, published every Tuesday in the Cape Gazette, features historical photos from Delaware's Cape Region - particularly - and from throughout Sussex County and Delaware generally.

Readers are invited to submit photos of historic interest. They can be mailed to the Cape Gazette at PO Box 213, Lewes, DE 19958, or via email to newsroom@capegazette.com.

Zwaanendael Museum in Lewes in March of 1970

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Lloyd Teitsworth and Dee Andrews flew all over Delaware in March of 1970 taking aerial photographs...

Recreational boating on Herring Creek in early 1920s

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Charles William Hodge made lots of photographs in Delaware in the early 1920s. His subjects varied...

Rehoboth Beach bridge construction in 1924

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In an area riddled with so much water, bridges play an important role in getting people to their...

The Jolly Trolley in a mid-20th century postcard

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The Jolly Trolley, which provides a variety of transportation services along the Delaware Coast,...

Delaware Snapshot: Rollin’ On The River

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Steamboats do big business in the spring of 1926 along the river at Wilmington, where Captain...

Parading Easter finery in Rehoboth Beach in mid-20th...

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For decades, the Rehoboth Beach Easter Promenade brought crowds to the resort to celebrate the...

Rehoboth’s Shaw Park before it was Grove Park

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Throughout much of the 1900s, Rehoboth’s Grove Park, just north of Rehoboth Avenue and adjacent to...

Fishing trips used to be more formal than they are...

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Charles William Hodge was an amateur photographer who lived in Dover. He was a mechanic by trade,...

Springtime means shad in Delaware

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Halleluia, spring is here! That means the fish are starting to run in our rivers and creeks:...

March storms are no stranger to Delaware coast

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When late winter storms roll across the mid-Atlantic coast, like this week’s storm, thoughts along...

Dewey Beach’s Redwood Lodge in 1955

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This promotional picture postcard from 1955 shows the Redwood Lodge Motel on the Coastal Highway in...

Milton advertising for boat slips in the 1960s

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It’s the time of the year when people begin looking at boating advertisements and start dreaming...

St. Agnes by the Sea and Brooklyn Avenue in the 1930s

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Sheila Zeytinoglu sent this picture postcard along over the weekend after reading about the house...

In the spirit of the Grammys and Valentine’s Day

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This photograph from the 1940s shows a musical group known as the Harmony Five. Information...

Sussex Correctional Institution and Alms House in 1970

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This photograph from the archives of the Delaware Economic Development Office shows the entrance to...

Lewes marker placed in 1931 commemorated

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Between discussions of the Mexican wall and the executive order affecting travel to the U.S. from...

Sussex rabbit hunters circa 1910

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The 2016-17 hunting season continues in Sussex County as January fogs, ices and snows its way...

The inauguration of Gov. J. Caleb Boggs in 1957

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James Caleb "Cale" Boggs was inaugurated for his second term as governor of Delaware in 1957. This...

Clearing snow from Delaware roads in 1932

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Delaware, particularly Sussex County, experienced its first significant snowfall of the 2016-17...

A four-masted schooner undergoing repairs in Wilmington

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Whether it was on the banks of the Broadkill, Lewes Creek, Mispillion River or Christina River,...

A Christmas post card from Delaware postmarked 1905

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This State of Delaware Christmas post card, published in Wilmington, circulated in 1905. The warm...

Milton sends world’s largest wreath to New York

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In the 1920s and 1930s, many Sussex County families earned critical cash during the holiday season...

Downtown Lewes in the late 1960s

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This aerial photograph from the late 1960s shows downtown Lewes before the Fisherman’s Wharf docks...

Castro, Guevara golfing on a former duPont course

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This famous Alberto Korda image of Fidel Castro putting as Che Guevara watches, found on the Daily...

President Roosevelt in Delaware with U.S. Sen. James...

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Our presidents in Delaware series continues this week with a photograph of U.S. Sen. James M...

President Warren Harding visits Milford

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This week we continue our election year series on presidential visits to Delaware. Now we’re closer...

President Kennedy in Delaware, Nov. 14, 1963

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Less than eight days before his assassination in Dallas, Texas, President John F. Kennedy...

President Lyndon Johnson in Delaware in 1964

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This week, in the spirit of the election season, we continue with publication of photographs...

President Teddy Roosevelt in Georgetown

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In our ongoing series of historic photos showing U.S. presidents in Delaware, this week we present...

President Harry Truman And Delaware Delegation

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In the late 1940s, Delaware Gov. Elbert Carvel, front right, visited U.S. President Harry S. Truman...

President Eisenhower visits Dover Air Force Base

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A fair number of U.S. presidents have visited Delaware over the decades. Over the next few weeks,...

North side of Indian River Inlet in 1970

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Things have changed dramatically on the north side of Indian River Inlet where Delaware now has a...

The people of Bowers Beach want to know what...

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This postcard, published by an Ocean City, New Jersey postcard company, was mailed in 1940...

Delaware Election Postcard From 1908

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This postcard from the Caley Collection in Delaware Public Archives gives an idea of the kind of...

Three communities along upper Indian River

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This photograph from March 1970 shows the three sister communities that string along the north...

And for this week, Riverdale on Indian River

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Last Tuesday’s historic photo featured a 1970 aerial photograph of Rosedale Beach on Indian River...

Rosedale Beach on Indian River in March of 1970

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In the August 23 edition, the Cape Gazette published a photograph from 1915 showing bathers on a...

Bathers at Oak Orchard in 1915

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Delaware’s ocean resorts get most of the attention in the summertime but in many years of the 20th...

A magazine article about Lewes in 1877

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Here’s one we roll out every few years because it’s so cool. It shows a woodcut print from Harper’s...

Richard Nixon and family at Rehoboth Beach

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Col. Riley McGarraugh, a former commander at Fort Miles in Lewes, made this photograph in Rehoboth...

The central, incorporated core of Rehoboth Beach in...

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This map from the City of Rehoboth Beach shows the layout of the city in 1950. Then, as now, the...

Delaware firefighting equipment and firehouse in...

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The recent death of Lewes volunteer fireman Tim McClanahan in a training accident has focuses a lot...

St. John the Baptist Church in Milton prior to 1936

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This photograph from the early 20th century shows St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church on Federal...

The Lewes Doo-Dah Parade on July 4, 1993

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The Lewes July 4th Doo-Dah Parade was going strong 23 years ago in 1993. Antique tractors have long...

No worries about sea level rise in 1931

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Folks crowded the beach on Aug. 30, 1931 in Rehoboth Beach, and the Boardwalk towering above the...

Delaware’s brand of driver education in the early 1950s

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This photograph from the early 1950s shows a Delaware State Police Driver’s Education car in the...

A Rehoboth Beach public service message in 1954

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It was a time after the end of World War II, a time before the war of terrorism spread around the...

Milton celebrates sesquicentennial

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In August of 1957, the town of Milton celebrated its sesquicentennial - the 150th anniversary of...

Isaacs School at Redden Crossroads in 1936

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Last Friday’s Cape Gazette included a column about a historic marker honoring the accomplishments...

Promoting Delaware tourism in the mid-20th century

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Memorial Day weekend has finally arrived and the holiday honoring men and women who died while...

Civilian Conservation Corps workers in their flooded...

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Coastal flooding and global warming continue to be a topic of local and world-wide discussion. This...