Delaware Cape Region History in Photographs

A fashionable Rehoboth Beach Easter celebration in 1956

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Jackson and Sharp Company, according to an article in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, was an...

Community chimes in on last week’s photograph

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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

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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

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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

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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

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This postcard from 1908 shows the riverfront in downtown Milton complete with at least two twin-...

A different brand of presidential inauguration...

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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...

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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...

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The infamous northeast storm of March 1962, with its strong winds and exceptionally high tides,...

A happy holiday message from a Delaware soldier in...

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During the Vietnam war, Delaware Morning News journalist Nancy Lynch encouraged soldiers serving...

Delaware has seen tough winters in the past

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Delaware is hardly known for its severe winters, but arctic conditions occasionally grip the state...

An inexpensive upstate winter getaway in mid-20th...

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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

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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

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This photograph from the late 1970s shows the farm buildings at Carpenter’s Corner southeast of...

Then as now, public health important in Delaware

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At the Kent and Sussex Fair in Harrington in July 1932, the Delaware Board of Public Health set up...

Packing Sussex County apples for market in 1923

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Almost all of Delaware’s 2020 apples have been picked, sold, stored and shipped as our unseasonably...

Enjoying the ox roast at mid-20th century Return Day

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This picture postcard from the mid-20th century shows a Return Day throng crowded around the ox...

Ferrying across the Chesapeake to get to the beach

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Gary Myers of Rehoboth Beach sent this photo in recently showing vehicles in 1952 getting off the...

Piling harvested Sussex pumpkins for canning in 1923

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This photograph from Oct. 20, 1923, shows pumpkins piled on the grounds of the H.P. Cannon cannery...

It’s apple-picking season in Delaware

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An old bluegrass song reminds us: “Peaches ripen in the summertime, apples ripen in the fall; if I...

Lewes High’s rifle club in 1967

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Becky Carney sent this page from the 1967 Lewes High School yearbook after seeing a column in the...

South end of Rehoboth’s Boardwalk in 1957

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Rehoboth Beach resident Gary Myers sent through an old photograph recently from his family archives...

Mid-1900s volleyball team in Sussex County

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Summer has switched to fall. Schools are back in modified session due to COVID-19. Sports are now...

Wet Septembers can still bring plenty of mosquitos

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In a state as wet as Delaware, mosquitos pose a constant threat, especially in active hurricane...

When Labor Day marked the end of Rehoboth’s summer...

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This postcard from the middle of the 1900s captures the sense at that time of Labor Day’s...

Highway policing in Delaware à la 1931

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Policing of the highways in Delaware looked a lot different in 1931 than it does today. This...

Lewes High School as it appeared in the 1940s

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This postcard was mailed in 1946 and shows the Lewes School on Savannah Road as it appeared at that...

Another public health initiative - mosquito ditches

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This photograph from 1945 shows a recently maintained Delaware Mosquito Control ditch dug to help...

Delaware State Fair back in 1914

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We’ve just been through the Delaware State Fair season which is also typically the hottest time of...

An Amish crop of soybeans after wheat back in 1985

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This photograph from 1985 shows an Amish farm near Dover in Kent County with a crop of soybeans...

A far-less-developed Fenwick Island from mid-20th...

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This picture postcard from the mid-20th century shows a far less developed and commercial Fenwick...

Tomato season then and now in Sussex County

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Fresh garden tomatoes are coming on strong now in Sussex County. In the first half of the 20th...

Main Street in Bridgeville in the late 1800s

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This antique picture postcard from the late 1800s shows Main Street in downtown Bridgeville on the...

One of Rehoboth’s early amusement parks

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Neal “Joe” Boyle donated an extensive collection of Delaware postcards to the Delaware Public...

Public Health in Millsboro in the middle of the 20th...

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Public health, with a focus on nutrition, was on display during a Millsboro elementary first grade...

Rehoboth’s Belhaven Hotel in a former era

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Plans for a new Belhaven Hotel in Rehoboth Beach at the corner of Boardwalk and Rehoboth Avenue are...

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A formal and all-female graduation in 19th century...

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Colleen Herman of Millsboro sent the following letter after publication of this historic photo...

From a time when strawberries reigned large in Sussex

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This photograph from Delaware’s Department of Agriculture shows the streets of Selbyville crowded...

Delaware National Guard at Johnson’s 1965 inauguration

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This photograph from the Delaware Economic Development Office archives shows members of Delaware’s...

Ticonderoga passes beneath Delaware Memorial Bridge...

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This photograph from 1955 shows the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Ticonderoga passing beneath the...

Rehoboth’s bandstand a rallying place for many decades

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When the Reopen Delaware organization took its activism to the bandstand in Rehoboth Beach last...

Summer fun at Camp Barnes in 1954

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This photo from 1954 shows campers at Camp Barnes, on Miller Creek near Frankford, enjoying...

Rehoboth Drawbridge and Grove Park in March 1970

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Lloyd Teitsworth and Dee Andrews made this aerial photograph over Rehoboth Beach in March of 1970...

Delaware turkey production in the 1930s

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Members of the extended Loockerman family have been involved in poultry production for many years...

Why was 1918 so momentous here and everywhere?

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In early April 1918 - 102 years ago and the same year as the end of World War I and the deadly...

Breakwater Quarantine facilities converted to U.S....

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These buildings, on Delaware Bay-front in Lewes, stood near what is now the Cape Henlopen State...

Personal protection equipment used by sailors in...

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These sailors donned personal protection face masks in 1918 with a worldwide influenza epidemic...

Rehoboth Beach and public health more than one...

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This postcard mailed in 1908 shows that Rehoboth Beach was touting itself as a resort that was not...

Mess hall for the Lewes Civilian Conservation Corps

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When Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) members were assigned to dig mosquito ditches in the salt...

How a baseball game in Milford looked in 1920

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Spring season has started in Florida and Arizona for the major leagues. That has put us in mind of...

A timeless photo of muskrat houses in Delaware

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This photograph is probably a half-century old or more, but the scene is one that could be seen...

A colorful Rehoboth Beach scene from 1949

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As the grayness of February continues to hold sway, we thought this brightly colored postcard...

Bunkroom of Civilian Conservation Corps in Lewes

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This photograph from the early 1930s shows the bunkroom in one of the Civilian Conservation Corps...

A heron rookery reminds that nesting season is...

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This Delaware Wildlands postcard from the 1950s shows a New Castle County heron rookery on land...

Lavina Road in Milton a century or so ago

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Yes, the street that comes into Milton from the southwest from Sand Hill Road was once known as...