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.

Delaware’s poultry industry in its earliest days

8 years ago
This photograph from May 11, 1928 shows state-of-the-art, commercial-level poultry facilities as...

Lewes’ foray into public art in 1975 didn’t end well

8 years ago
In 1975, in anticipation of the nation's 200th anniversary in 1976, Lewes Historical Society...

Nanticoke Indian Powwow in 1994

8 years ago
The Nanticoke Indian Association celebrated its 40th annual Powwow last weekend near the shores of...

Route 9, Georgetown to Lewes, in the 1920s

8 years ago
Raining and flooding cause problems in lots of areas. With last weekend’s rain, and all eyes now on...

Lewes’ 1812 Park in an earlier iteration

8 years ago
This colorized one-cent post card from the early 1900s shows the cannons in the 1812 Park in Lewes...

Looking north and west across Five Points in 1964

8 years ago
The above photo is how the Five Points intersection looked in October of 1964, not long after...

Lewes drawbridge, looking toward the beach, in 1925

8 years ago
There has been a lot of discussion in the news lately about bridges in Delaware’s Cape Region. This...

The peak of watermelon season in Laurel in 1905

8 years ago
Sussex County farmers load 20- to 40-pound watermelons aboard rail cars bound for mid-Atlantic...

The beach has been cheap fun for kids forever

8 years ago
This 1934 picture post card from Rehoboth Beach demonstrates why people - dating back to Native...

New bridge over Broadkill River

8 years ago
This photo from the Delaware Project shows the Route 14 (later Route 1) bridge over Broadkill River...

Five Points, looking northbound, in the 1950s

8 years ago
This photograph from the archives of Delaware’s Department of Transportation shows the Route 9 and...

Ferry and Fish Products factory in March 1970

8 years ago
In March of 1970, Lloyd Treitsworth and Dee Andrews flew up and down the state of Delaware...

Shipping Sussex County watermelons from Laurel in...

8 years ago
Many people will be eating watermelon over the upcoming July Fourth holiday weekend. Sussex County’...

An 1841 map showing Chesapeake and Delaware Canal

8 years ago
The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal is one of the busiest canals in the world. This 1841 map shows...

Oldest Civil War veteran in Memorial Day parade

8 years ago
George Washington Baker was in his 90s when this photograph was taken of him riding in the back of...

Learning baking at an early Rehoboth school

8 years ago
After World War I, in the 1920s, Pierre S. DuPont, according to Delaware Public Archives materials...

Zwaanendael Museum in Lewes in March of 1970

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

Recreational boating on Herring Creek in early 1920s

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

Rehoboth Beach bridge construction in 1924

8 years ago
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

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

Delaware Snapshot: Rollin’ On The River

8 years ago
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...

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

Rehoboth’s Shaw Park before it was Grove Park

8 years ago
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...

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

Springtime means shad in Delaware

8 years ago
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

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

Dewey Beach’s Redwood Lodge in 1955

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

Milton advertising for boat slips in the 1960s

8 years ago
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

8 years ago
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

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

Sussex Correctional Institution and Alms House in 1970

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

Lewes marker placed in 1931 commemorated

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

Sussex rabbit hunters circa 1910

8 years ago
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

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

Clearing snow from Delaware roads in 1932

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

A four-masted schooner undergoing repairs in Wilmington

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

A Christmas post card from Delaware postmarked 1905

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

Milton sends world’s largest wreath to New York

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

Downtown Lewes in the late 1960s

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

Castro, Guevara golfing on a former duPont course

8 years ago
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...

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

President Warren Harding visits Milford

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

President Kennedy in Delaware, Nov. 14, 1963

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

President Lyndon Johnson in Delaware in 1964

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

President Teddy Roosevelt in Georgetown

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

President Harry Truman And Delaware Delegation

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

President Eisenhower visits Dover Air Force Base

9 years ago
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

9 years ago
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...

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

Delaware Election Postcard From 1908

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

Three communities along upper Indian River

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

And for this week, Riverdale on Indian River

9 years ago
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

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

Bathers at Oak Orchard in 1915

9 years ago
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

9 years ago
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

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

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

9 years ago
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...

9 years ago
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

9 years ago
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

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