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Delaware Cape Region History in Photographs
Doo-Dah Parade is a Lewes tradition
2 days 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
6 days 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 week 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
2 weeks 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
3 weeks 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 month 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 month ago
If this past weekend’s weather is any indication, summer temperatures have finally arrived in the...
Fort Miles soldiers check the weather
1 month 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 month 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 months ago
The Sussex County Courthouse is one of Georgetown’s iconic historic structures. This photograph...
Lewes’ Fountain of Youth
2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago
Lewes’ 1812 Park commemorates the defense of the First Town in the First State during an 1813...
Baseball season is upon us
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
4 months ago
It was announced March 1 that Beebe Healthcare will be opening the R. Randall Rollins Center for...
Rehoboth Colored School in 1923
4 months ago
Delaware schools were segregated in 1923 when this “colored school” was built on the state highway...
Long before 2 Dips, there was the Lewes Beach Garage
4 months ago
The future of Lewes Beach’s beloved 2 Dips ice cream shop is uncertain after a local development...
Milton looks familiar approximately 75 years ago
4 months ago
Major growth is knocking on the door in Milton, with town officials contemplating the annexation of...
Recent snow doesn’t compare to Blizzard of 1888
5 months ago
A Jan. 29 snowstorm dumped a foot of snow on much of the Cape Region, but it doesn’t compare to the...
A different-looking Georgetown 25 years ago
5 months ago
There has been a lot of talk recently about deforestation as part of the continued development boom...
Wilson’s Pier in Dewey Beach in 1954
5 months ago
Just last week, we learned that the McKinney family has sold Pier Point Marina in Dewey Beach to an...
During Wartime, Creative Newspaper Deliveries
5 months ago
With announcement of the recent sale of the Cape Gazette, we decided to check out newspaper history...
DelDOT Snow Plows Have Come In All Shapes, Sizes
5 months ago
Delaware’s Department of Transportation has used a wide variety of snow plows through the years to...
Making Charcoal in Woods of Sussex near Millsboro
6 months ago
During the late 1800s and early 1900s, scenes like this one from November 1935 near Millsboro were...
Ice skating on a pond near Wyoming in 1909
6 months ago
Tuesday, Dec. 21 this year marks the winter solstice - with the year’s fewest hours of daylight and...
Santa’s special visit to Dover in 1941
6 months ago
Dover Air Force Base has been in the center of many important international events through its 80...
Boardwalk in early 1940s, before Dolle’s sign
6 months ago
With the pending removal of the iconic Dolle’s saltwater taffy sign from atop the building at the...
Flooding has long been transportation hazard
7 months ago
Delaware, it’s said, is a state with three counties at low tide and two counties at high. When...
Oysters long a popular food source, not just at...
7 months ago
This photograph from the 1950s shows men aboard an oystering vessel out of Leipsic planting seed...
Fisher-Martin House prior to its move to Lewes
7 months ago
Thomas Fisher built this Dutch Colonial-style home on 500-acre White Meadow Farm in the 1730s. It...
Rehoboth Bay and sparsely populated Dewey Beach in...
7 months ago
This picture postcard shows the head of Rehoboth Bay, in its northeastern corner, and the sandy...
A bird’s-eye view of Milton in March of 1970
8 months ago
This aerial photograph of Milton, looking from the southwest, shows the town as it appeared in...
Rehoboth Beach’s street layout as of 1950
8 months ago
Rehoboth Beach’s streets fan out left and right from where Rehoboth Avenue crosses Lewes-Rehoboth...
Rehoboth Beach’s Sisters Cottage In The Early 20th...
8 months ago
This picture postcard from Rehoboth Beach was mailed in 1908. It shows priests and nuns in front of...
Delaware-built rolling post offices helped deliver...
8 months ago
This United States Railway Post Office car was one of dozens built by the Jackson and Sharp Company...
Fall has long been apple-picking time in Delaware
8 months ago
But not in this photograph from July 22, 1925, showing wagons loaded with freshly picked apples...
Hauling pilings the old-fashioned way in 1907
9 months ago
This photo, which graces a postcard mailed in 1907, shows a team of oxen and mules driven by their...
A Sussex County public school classroom in 1926
9 months ago
With schools reopening in Sussex County, and new schools under construction in many different...
A soldier’s life isn’t all battle and glamour
9 months ago
This photograph from around 1944 shows U.S. Army soldiers, stationed at Fort Miles in Lewes,...
Delmar was one of the stops for the Delmarva Express
9 months ago
Pennsylvania Railroad invested heavily in passenger service during the first half of the 20th...
State-of-the-art food packaging in the early 1900s
10 months ago
This 1920s photograph from Waller Studios in western Sussex County’s Laurel shows workers at the...
Oak Orchard boardwalk scene from around 1915
10 months ago
Oak Orchard, tucked between Indian River Bay to the south and Emily Gut to the east, drew...
Horseshoe crabs at Bowers Beach for fertilizer
10 months ago
One of the great survivors of Planet Earth, horseshoe crabs have been roaming the sea floor for...
An early 20th century crossing of Broadkill River
10 months ago
Judging by the automobiles, this photo of the bridge over Broadkill River dates back to the 1930s...
Surfers at Indian River Inlet in the mid-1950s
11 months ago
This photograph from the middle of the 20th century gives a sense of the surfing scene at Indian...
Canning tomatoes in Seaford in early 1900s
11 months ago
Emanuel Greenabaum and brothers built a tomato and pea canning operation in Seaford in the late...
Resort restaurants long a part of local economy
11 months ago
Restaurants have long been an important part of the Delaware resort economy, and they have marketed...
Moonlight sailing on Rehoboth Bay in 1939
11 months ago
This romanticized illustration of a full moon sail on Rehoboth Bay graced a postcard that was...
One of Delaware’s earliest public transportation buses
11 months ago
Public buses are an increasingly important mode of transportation in Sussex County as our roads...
Threshing wheat when it took far more man and animal...
1 year ago
Wheat harvesting is in full swing across Delmarva. This photograph from the early 1930s shows a...
Hotel Carlton building on Rehoboth Avenue
1 year ago
This picture postcard from the 1920s shows the familiar red brick structure in the ocean block of...
Rehoboth’s Boardwalk was as popular in 1915 as it is...
1 year ago
The Boardwalk in Rehoboth Beach is usually capitalized because many properties fronting the...
Rehoboth Beach when its streets and beaches were...
1 year ago
This picture postcard from before 1907 shows the first block of Rehoboth’s Baltimore Avenue when...
Modern highway construction in Ellendale in 1918
1 year ago
Industrialist and philanthropist T. Coleman duPont financed construction of Rt. 113 in Sussex...
The first Harbor of Refuge Lighthouse lasted until 1925
1 year ago
This undated postcard photograph shows the first Harbor of Refuge Lighthouse at the southeast end...
Gov. Pete duPont during a visit to Millsboro’s NCR...
1 year ago
Delaware Gov. Pete duPont, who passed away recently after a long life of public service and...
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