Delaware Cape Region History in Photographs

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...