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Delaware Cape Region History in Photographs
DelDOT Snow Plows Have Come In All Shapes, Sizes
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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...
1 year 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
1 year 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...
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year ago
This 1920s photograph from Waller Studios in western Sussex County’s Laurel shows workers at the...
Oak Orchard boardwalk scene from around 1915
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year ago
Restaurants have long been an important part of the Delaware resort economy, and they have marketed...
Moonlight sailing on Rehoboth Bay in 1939
1 year 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
1 year 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...
Baseball game at Milton Colored School in 1952
1 year ago
This photograph from the spring of 1952 shows students and teachers at Milton Colored School...
One hundred years ago on the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal
1 year ago
Bill Heronemus sent along this photo, looking toward the northwest, of the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal in...
The lure of the beach continues, constant as the tides
1 year ago
The perennial simplicity, joy, and attractiveness of the beach, surf and waves are captured in this...
Cape Henlopen Lighthouse fell into the sea April 13,...
1 year ago
This photograph from 1925 shows the Cape Henlopen Lighthouse looking lonely and vulnerable on the...
Rehoboth had mass transportation once; maybe again?
1 year ago
Starting in about 1878, passenger train service began bringing summer tourists south from...
A friendly canal chat in Lewes in 1937
1 year ago
Bill Heronemus of Lewes sent along this old photo recently. He noted: “I believe it may have C.H...
A fashionable Rehoboth Beach Easter celebration in 1956
1 year ago
For many decades in the 20th century, Rehoboth Beach hosted a grand celebration of Easter and its...
Rehoboth Beach’s new sewage treatment plant in 1935
1 year ago
The Rehoboth Beach wastewater treatment plant was built in the farmland outside Rehoboth Beach in...
Green peas being planted now will be harvested in June
1 year ago
This photo from June of 1925 shows wagons heaped with green pea vines heading to hulling machinery...
Rehoboth Beach Post Office as it appeared in 1940
1 year ago
The United States Postal service has been in the news across the country recently. That timeliness...
Shad nets drying along the Delaware in early 1900s
1 year ago
This photo shows another form of net drying, different from the net reels used at one time by the...
Many Delaware eyes turn to Florida in February
1 year ago
Jackson and Sharp Company, according to an article in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, was an...
Community chimes in on last week’s photograph
1 year ago
The aerial picture published as the historic photo in the Feb. 9 edition of the Cape Gazette (...
A different era, a different time in Lewes
1 year ago
Few photographs provide a sense of the intensity of activity on the point of Cape Henlopen at Lewes...
Ploughing snow the old-fashioned way in 1921
1 year ago
While it’s been a relatively mild winter so far, there’s still plenty of time ahead for snow and...
What a Delaware football team looked like 118 years ago
2 years ago
It’s football time of year with NFL playoffs completed and Super Bowl LV on the horizon. The game...
Shipbuilding once flourished as a major Milton industry
2 years ago
This postcard from 1908 shows the riverfront in downtown Milton complete with at least two twin-...
A different brand of presidential inauguration...
2 years ago
Delaware and most other states in the nation joined in the festive parade on Jan. 21, 1957, when...
Aerial view of Rehoboth Beach showing rebuilt Dolle...
2 years ago
Last week’s historic photo showed damage from the March 1962 nor’easter that flattened the Dolle’s...
Storm of March 1962 destroyed the Dolle’s structure...
2 years ago
The infamous northeast storm of March 1962, with its strong winds and exceptionally high tides,...
A happy holiday message from a Delaware soldier in...
2 years ago
During the Vietnam war, Delaware Morning News journalist Nancy Lynch encouraged soldiers serving...
Delaware has seen tough winters in the past
2 years ago
Delaware is hardly known for its severe winters, but arctic conditions occasionally grip the state...
An inexpensive upstate winter getaway in mid-20th...
2 years ago
The Francis Drake Motel was located at the intersection of Routes 13 and 40, a few miles south of...
Christmas postcard from Beebe Hospital in 1928
2 years ago
With Christmas lights starting to show up throughout Delaware’s Cape Region, there’s no doubt that...
Farm at Carpenter’s Corner southeast of Lewes
2 years ago
This photograph from the late 1970s shows the farm buildings at Carpenter’s Corner southeast of...
Then as now, public health important in Delaware
2 years ago
At the Kent and Sussex Fair in Harrington in July 1932, the Delaware Board of Public Health set up...
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